My take is, that people don't converse properly anymore. We're too afraid of upsetting some hitherto unidentified minority or having an unpopular opinion that may get us cancelled.
Online discourse is certainly not safe anymore, so yes we do self censor, and because of that we get out of the habit of expressing raw thought or trying to challenge the status quo for fear of being reported or banned.
It's a real shame. The internet was supposed to be this great opportunity to unify people and help push through a new way of collaboration and debating, yet it's become an albatross around all our necks.
Without healthy debate with controversial or opposing opinions we are never exposed to any viewpoints that differ from our own, so we all just end up swimming in our own echo chamber fishbowls, and the field of intellectual thinking just dies.
I'd like to wax on further about this, but I'm typing (badly) on my phone which is in itself to blame for the brevity of online conversation.
Is this perception or reality though? Anecdotally, I don’t know a single person who has been “cancelled”. I share non-orthodox ideas in public all the time and in the worst case scenario it causes a few people not to like me. But who cares
Online discourse is certainly not safe anymore, so yes we do self censor, and because of that we get out of the habit of expressing raw thought or trying to challenge the status quo for fear of being reported or banned.
It's a real shame. The internet was supposed to be this great opportunity to unify people and help push through a new way of collaboration and debating, yet it's become an albatross around all our necks.
Without healthy debate with controversial or opposing opinions we are never exposed to any viewpoints that differ from our own, so we all just end up swimming in our own echo chamber fishbowls, and the field of intellectual thinking just dies.
I'd like to wax on further about this, but I'm typing (badly) on my phone which is in itself to blame for the brevity of online conversation.