Charlottesville Haters: Test Case for the Internet as Public Square
. By Thomas L. Knapp In a recent column, I celebrated the phenomenon of “Social Preferencing” (@YesYoureRacist Crowdsources Social Preferencing) and the boost Charlottesville gave to an online, crowdsourced, social media version of it, “@YesYoureRacist,” which makes it easy for everyone to “ostracize a Nazi.” That column received quite a bit of pushback from readers […]
@YesYoureRacist Crowdsources Social Preferencing
. By Thomas L. Knapp The Twitter account @YesYoureRacist went up in 2012, but jumped from about 65,000 followers to more than 350,000 in the days following Virginia’s “Battle of Charlottesville.” After an army of white nationalists rioted to “Unite the Right,” murdering one and injuring dozens, @YesYoureRacist admin Logan Smith swung into action to […]
