[Florin_Andrei]

> Add to that the fact that social media is highly game-able and scalable, and you have small groups of people working against the majority of the country.

I started in this industry in the '90s, I like to think of my cohort as the generation who "built the Internet" (or the commercial version of it).

We've created a monster. Or at least the means to unleash it.

[briefcomment]

I think a useful abstraction is that the internet has enabled an extremely potent form of _anti-social_ human interaction. When you have to talk to people face-to-face, there are a whole lot of checks and balances, both conscious and subconscious, that come into play and that tend to keep interactions reasonable.

We now see an explosion in selfish and cowardly interactions. Good faith conversations obviously abound, but they have been effectively buried under co-opted hysteria.