Post-benzos JP crying about anon culture
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He is right to point out the problem with anonymity in group think. It absolutely makes it worse. But part of the issue is that if we had a stronger localized community structure, we wouldn't need anonymous online accounts.
If the Twitter lynch mob weren't more powerful than our associations to our friends, family, and community; the lynch mob wouldn't mean anything. The problem is that we don't have local associations like that. Society is atomotized to the point that the TV man and the Twitter mob can influence your friends and family more than you can. That's what we saw during Covid.
Now, unfortunately, we all will have no other choice but to come out of the dark and fight in the light. And yes, that means getting our friends, family, home, and career targeted. But that's why we also want to have built those relationships stronger than the Twitter mob's hyperreality. When you step into the light: you'll have no choice. All you'll have left are people who say: "I don't care about what Twitter thinks about you".
I think it's more the group than the anonymity- crowd mentality can easily push normal people in real life to do things they normally wouldn't even consider.
Jordan's biggest problem is that he's an "acceptable target", so he would still get trolled and receive death threats even if identities were exposed. Forced identification primarily hurts those who need to remain anonymous for their protection e.g. Christians in Muslim nations, whistle blowers etc.