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Dec 8Edited

In the early days of asocial media those of us who built chat rooms valued the interactive nature of real-time interplay.

I would argue that although we lost many nonverbal cues the give-and-take tended to reinforce the RL reactions you speak of.

In fact on some occasions it was amazing to see a collection of cross-planet ideas arrive at some common views.

I think your key point of avoidance of responsibility and reasonable response were the spur for these ‘spawn’ to run to single oration platforms.

There was an interesting start to internet discourse until it became no course at all

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I find that there is still plenty of good internet discourse, but it's typically found in "closed" groups or other places where community forms and people get to know each other, even though only through written interaction.

So, yes :).

The open Internet, on the other hand, is a fetid bog.

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Dec 8Edited

Agreed, In closed groups there is an investment in community

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Really good column today!

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Let me amplify the white tee shirt by adding a pack of smokes in the rolled up sleeve 😁 BTW, Chomsky is a complex character and actually added value to the study of speech & language.

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Few people are all bad or all wrong. I would ask if Chomsky has been a net positive or net negative to society.

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That is a very reasonable perspective 👍👍

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