Law in the Internet Society

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 Negativity festers on social media platforms. The warped content is far more plentiful and hostile on the internet than in the daily lives of most of the platform’s users. The plethora of vulgar and cutting content, seemingly intended to rile up readers, can be attributed to the lower cost of immoral behavior in anonymous social media settings. Cyber Aggression is clearly positively correlated to the reduction of these costs.
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Why do all your hyper-links cause Google to surveil your readers if they follow the links? Do you not know that you should edit the URLs rather than just copying them off the Google results screen, because every Google search results displayed is bugged? Or is this irony?

 

Anonymity and its Network Effects

Anonymity has a tremendous role in this discussion. Internet anonymity grants humans a world without reprecussions - spiteful comments on the internet do not come with the corresponding threat of physical consequences. Further, the provocateur on the internet is insulated from admonishment - they never see how their comments actually affect their targets. Instead, social media communication substitutes real human responses with the provocateur’s fantasies. Central to the disclosure of this negative behavior is that the provocateur perceives that they are unknown to their audience.
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 Evaluation of how negative internet content is developed illustrates how big tech companies manipulate human psychology. The network (or the parasite) has created its feedback loop by taking advantage of instinctual behaviors. These platforms prey on the fact that their users generally only recognize accountability in contexts they are familiar with (i.e. how other humans will perceive their action). Most users in turn fail to acknowledge that these platforms are surveilling all of their behavior, from the picture they did not post to their subconscious behaviors. The exact things that would normally give rise to human’s instinctive shame are neatly collected and organized under the user’s social profile. In order to instigate change it may be necessary to target this perception of anonymity. If this perception was damaged, the value of actual anonymity may increase. In general, understanding human psychology on the network can be extremely useful, both to understand the network itself and to understand how to change it.
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Doesn't it seem to you that there should be a more significant conclusion available after all this work?

Very much improved, in my view. Turkle's Life on the Screen does not seem to have made it into your reading, but again I want to point out that she saw deeper thirty years ago than your too-online source authors do now.

 
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