[rudedogg]

> It absolutely has made the problem worse in otherwise reasonable societies.

I'm genuinely curious, has it really? I wonder if it's just more widely reported?

I tried looking up terrorism statistics and found this: https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism

For most countries, it doesn't look like much has changed from 1970-2017.

I glanced at hate crime stats on the FBI website (just looking at 2008 and 2017), with 7,783 and 7,175 crimes reported for each year). So not much change there either.

Obviously this is a half-assed attempt, but I just wanted to counter the idea that the world is falling apart. Hopefully someone who has more interest in these things can provide some studies with more comprehensive statistics.

[Reelin]

Many people seem unaware of how bad the 70s were, and that definitely predates Facebook.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/396359930/explosive-protests-...

I suspect people just like to have a boogeyman to blame so that they feel they have more understanding or control of the situation than they actually do. "It's a bad situation and we don't know what the cause is or how to fix things" isn't something you'll hear very often, particularly from politicians.

[avereveard]

and in the 80s too. anarchist &Nazi&friends in Italy were engaging in an actual bomb marathon with huge loss of innocent life, and I'd argue that if being mean on internet is action enough today for these groups so that they disregard their traditional methods, like literally bombing places, then we are all better off with that

[stallmanite]

I can never wrap my head around the thought process. Kill innocents and somebody else will be impressed with Anarchism somehow?

[Izkata]

Think of it as hostage-taking at mass scale, intending for fear of continued bombings leading to capitulation.