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Mob violence has been a thing for all of human history. Before humans, even: chimpanzee groups, if they get large, will split into two groups. After a few months apart, if the groups encounter each other, the stronger group will murder every individual in the weaker one.
I think we had settled on a regulated and normalized system in pre-internet media that moderated the mob violence tendencies. Our current polarization is not really that social media created this new thing in society, it's that it removed the guardrails in traditional media that were suppressing natural human tendencies. I hope we can figure out and implement some new guardrails sooner rather than later.
Nah, I dont by that. Thats the same kind of logic that rapists use. "She was wearing a short skirt, and I just couldnt help myself". The fact is, social media in its current form is basically using gambling mechanics to get everyone to do weird shit. Comments on reddit, or facebook, or twitter are basically one armed bandits. Each tuck/comment is hoping for a win to get a little dopamine hit. Thats the long and the short of it. This has been going on for so long now, that people are radicalised by it.