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[ih] New Republic Article - "How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins"
- Subject: [ih] New Republic Article - "How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins"
- From: dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 16:20:15 -0700
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On 11/1/2019 4:11 PM, Lori Emerson wrote:
> to repeat, my issue is with ad hominem attacks which the thread was
> veering?toward if not engaging with. Civil debate about facts is a
> different thing altogether---
Yes, but... when someone is an intensely insulting provocateur, it does
not necessarily serve as an excuse for responses that are uncivil, but
it certainly explains them.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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