Comment by TeMPOraL

5 days ago

This has little to do with the bot, and everything with this being the heyday of Twitter shitstorms; we didn't have any social immunity to people getting offended about random things on-line, and others getting recursively offended, and then "adults" in news publishing treating that seriously and converting random Twitter pileups into stock movements.

In a decade since then, things got marginally better, and such events wouldn't play out so fast and so intensely in 2026.

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giancarlostoro  4 days ago

> In a decade since then, things got marginally better, and such events wouldn't play out so fast and so intensely in 2026.

Are you saying the internet would not do it again, or Microsoft would not do the same approach? Because I think the internet would absolutely do it again.

  • TeMPOraL  4 days ago

    I'm saying that the Internet would try, but it would be less of a deal, because idiots feigning offense on the Internet are not new anymore, people got a bit bored of it over the past decade, so it doesn't command as much attention anymore.