Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Moral Panic: MSNBC Tries to Get Coast Guard Member Fired for Scratching His Face" video.

  1. That should be an important discovery, Styx: moral panics correlate to communications advances! However, I didn't catch your explanation of this phenomenon. Could it be that there's an innate sense in people of the overriding importance of communication, such that a drastic change in the quality or nature of communication subconsciously signals "danger, the potential for disaster has increased dramatically--freak out (i.e. suppress reason) now!" Social reality changes every time there's a communications advance because social reality is based in the relative immediacy of other people. Faster communications means greater relative immediacy.
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  2. So we have the juvenile dicks at 4chan to thank for this nonsense! Figures. If you always thought reddit to be a bastion of free speech and tolerance, what do you do with the news of its censorship of conservative speech/users? It makes me think reddit is owned, always has been. You know the military initiated the internet; why would they then just drop their involvement!!! As a general rule, anything big on the internet is government controlled/initiated.
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