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Our society is troubled. Beware those who blame it all
on big tech
Every time a dramatic, unforeseen political event happens, there follows a
left-field fixation that some out-of-control technology created it. Whenever
this fear about big tech comes around we are told that something new, even more
toxic, has infiltrated our public discourse, triggering hatred towards
politicians and public figures, conspiracy theories about Covid and even major
political events like Brexit. The concern over anonymity online becomes a
particular worry – as if ending it will somehow, like throwing a blanket at a
raging house fire, subdue our fevered state.
You may remember that during the summer’s onslaught of racist abuse towards
black players in the England football team, instead of reckoning with the fact
that racism still haunts this country, we busied ourselves with bluster about
how “cowards” online would be silenced if we only just demanded they identify
themselves.
We resort to this explanation, that shadowy social media somehow stimulate our
worst impulses, despite there being little evidence that most abuse is from
unidentifiable sources. After England’s defeat in the Euro 2020 final, Twitter
revealed that 99% of the abuse on its site directed at England footballers was
not anonymous.
The same arguments were made in the aftermath of MP David Amess’s killing – that
doing something about online abuse would make politicians safer. It was a rehash
of a 2018 moment when Theresa May pledged to regulate online behaviour because a
“tone of bitterness and aggression has entered into our public debate”.
Good old social media, always there to paper over the giant cracks of our
political failures. Bad tech is a convenient fall guy for a whole gang of
perpetrators. It has been particularly useful in recent years, when Brexit has
enabled rightwing politicians and press to engage in the most divisive,
dangerous rhetoric, particularly towards the country’s political and legal
institutions, then point to social media when that rhetoric serves its purpose
of eroding tolerance and trust.
But when parliament and the supreme court – attacked by the media and
politicians for variously being saboteurs, traitors and opponents of the will of
the people – come under fire from members of the public, that is an entirely
different matter. The faceless public becomes the only protagonist. This allows
everyone, from the mainstream press to publishers of far-right conspiracy
theories, to distance themselves from the scene of the crime and innocently
propose earnest-sounding solutions to our country’s crises of racism and loss of
faith in our politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/society-blame-big-tech-online-regulation