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by atrophying
3626 days ago
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Speaking as an lady old fart on the Internet, it wasn't nearly this bad 15, 20 years ago. I've spent literally decades in some of these Internet communities, and the level of disrespect women receive on the Internet has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. Used to be that shit like doxing was incredibly rare; now it's an everyday occurrence and has to be factored into most women's social media. There's also a lot to be said for standing up and saying, "hey, this isn't okay behavior." Because it won't change unless this kind of behavior is brought into the spotlight and their perpetrators left to scurry like roaches. |
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That I will definitely agree with, but the demographics were much different. Back then the Internet was almost entirely professional companies and university students. Now it's literally everyone, and that means you get roughly the same ratio of shitty people to normal people, amplified by the fact that all you need to start a twitter account is an email address.
I get that a lot of people have issues with Facebooks real name policy, but forgetting the problems than transgender folk have with getting Facebook to let them use the name they want, it has done a great deal to curb harassment on that platform.
IMHO you can have a good community, you can have an anonymous community, but with regular people in the mix you can't have both.