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One or a few people defacing or denying a target's digital presence gets everyone's attention. One or a few people picketing outside of the target's physical presence doesn't get any attention.

The ability for one person to have that much power is either scary or empowering depending on your point of view.




You mean "both". And/or, it's definitely not an either/or thing.


I should have qualified it with "of the actions taken, and the targets background", but yeah I guess I could have said "both". I didn't like how cliche "both scary and empowering at the same time" sounded.

Additionally, it seems some people have a hard time realizing they have polarized views of the same thing in their head. So while it may be both scary and empowering, people can have strong polarized views of the same topic without realizing it, it just depends on their point of view at the time. Maybe I was trying to get people to think and realize that such things exist in their mind, or maybe I am giving myself too much credit for an omission of words.




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