Fragen? Antworten! Siehe auch: Alternativlos
Ich verlinke das vor allem, weil sie einige Absätze in die Ausreden und Rechtfertigungen der Teilnehmer und Auslöser solcher Online-Lynchmobs investiert. Hier ist z.B. ein schönes Beispiel:
Most victims of public shaming aren’t nationally famous editors like Ian Buruma. They are ordinary folks like “ID Adam,” who lost his job at a box assembly company in Winston-Salem after reports that he racially profiled a black woman at a community pool. It turned out that he, as the pool chair on duty, had asked to see her ID, because, when signing in, she had given an address on a street in the neighborhood where no houses had yet been built. It took him days to get his side of the story into the papers, and it didn’t make him any less fired.
Schon im alten Rom wusste man: Audiatur et altera pars. Immer auch die andere Seite zu Wort kommen lassen.Das muss man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen. Je weiter sich unsere Technik entwickelt, desto mehr fällt unsere Zivilisation zurück. Das alte Rom haben wir schon ... unterholt.
Aber im Gegensatz zu mir hat sie noch Hoffnung und hat sich mit ihrem Ex-Freund getroffen, der ihren Online-Lynchmob damals ausgelöst hatte, und sucht mit ihm nach Lösungen.
Todd’s advice for our fellow-shamed was no better than mine. “When a tsunami is heading for your house, at a certain point you have to say, ‘I’m just gonna stand here and hold this piece of plywood and see what’s left standing when it’s all over.’” Arguing back is no use. “If you’re tweeting, you’re losing.” Even in the immediate aftermath of the C-SPAN2 incident, when Todd, on his blog, attempted to make his case at length against my evil beliefs, he saw his arguments get lost in the maelstrom—equally ignored by both supporters and detractors. If we had a breakthrough in our conversation, that was it: There is no content to a shame storm. It is mindless by its very nature. It is indifferent to truth, even in cases where the truth could possibly be determined. Therefore, like the Ring, it cannot be used for good.The solution, then, is not to try to make shame storms well targeted, but to make it so they happen as infrequently as possible.