Aram Zucker-Scharff

“”And seeing it from the eyes of someone who was proud to do the f*cked-up thing, rather than news reporting on the f*cked-up thing—it just hurts you so much harder, for some reason. It just gives you a much darker view of humanity.””

– The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed.

Why bother with #gamergate?:

jonstonechannel2:

Then there’s the third thing: the grim fascination with how language is weaponised and used to obstruct, rather than facilitate, understanding, how every tool that has been effective in making social media a progressive force is repurposed as a method of obfuscation and provocation. […] and it gives a disturbingly sharp insight into the limitations of reason when dealing with a collective mania.”