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by tic_tac 2305 days ago
It has an impact if singular events (of which there are millions each day) can severely affect social cohesion and stability. Regardless of what you call it, the inevitability of emotionally triggering events each of which has the potential to reach everyone in real time and impact them will lead to extreme social instability.

Similarly, too many unregulated synaptic connections or overexcited neurons in the brain can cause seizures.

How does it bode for society if, for example, every single instance of racial animosity between people is broadcast for the whole world to see? Even if the rate of occurrence of these sorts of interactions is incredibly small, there will be many per day, driving entire segments of our society apart and causing even more such negative interactions in the future which are just fuel for the fire.

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Crime is down but reporting is up, and therefore fear is too.
Just leave people a venue to vent. Trying to purify every platform made the problem much, much worse in my opinion.