Hey dash! Cool article on an issue worth writing about. Thank you for sharing your own work here.

I have a question about something that surprised me: did you consider censoring user names of the people you used as examples of negative internet culture? From a perspective of journalistic best practice, I personally feel like this would have been better, mostly since you are making a point about general culture, not specific people. This became noticable to me with the reference to mastodon (less with reddit). Maybe because mastodon feels like more of a personal, less anonymous platform. Also, @f… (no thank you voyager, I won’t tag him here, even if you autocomplete the handle) is more singled out.

What I want to express is that I feel like that not censoring names detracts from your point of ‘online spaces are bad’ to ‘these people are bad’. This is especially true if the bad actor is a single person, as in the mastodon / ‘shut up about instagram’-section. This is the case in addition to the risk of people reaching out to the posters in question to worsen their day.

Thank you for explaining! I agree with OP, that does sound super annoying for the end user. Trademark law can go fuck itself though.

I think I don’t get you comment. Whom do you refer to with ‘They’? The French government is switching over to Visio, as per the article.

Okay, buddy elementary school

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I think this is a very short-sighted, surface level take that shows of a very naive understanding of how societies become more totalitarian.

I laughed, my dude.