Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Popehat I am not sure to what degree those are norm changes (say, pre-digital and IRL norms versus online norms, which are very different) and to what degree it's the tech, not the norms that matter. So in 1998, a media outlet willing to publish an oped of the sort you describe — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Popehat That's a complicated question. The post 9/11 spike of shaming and shunning was due to a familiar wartime dynamic with lots of analogs in bygone periods. What we are seeing now, compared to 1998, is different in large part because of changes in technology and media, and — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Popehat probably had readers who would tolerate such things, at least to the degree that they weren't going to write letters to your employer. Now, a piece published for an audience of The Stranger might also suddenly find itself Tweeted by Candace Owens, whose followers would be both — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2022