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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.