A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic – even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Like not paying for a haircut if the stylist didn’t have any customer at that time anyway. It’s a victimless crime!

    (Btw I have a large Plex server. So yeah, I’m a hypocrite.)

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That took labor. Copying bits doesn’t take labor. We don’t have people working in a bit mine.