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For those of you who didn't know, there was a mass shooting on May 14th at Buffalo, New York. 10 died so far, while 3 were injured and the shooter in his manifesto cited the "replacement theory".

What disturbed me and what I want to talk about, is that he was what could be best described as someone who is "terminally online". Active on 4chan, discord and who knows what else. It's possible someone here may have interacted with him, or someone like him at some point.

He's not the first guy who went from the internet to committing a mass shooting, he's not even the second. There's already El Paso, Christchurch and Poway. It seems to be a trend, why is that?

The internet is a breeding ground of every possible bad thing so yes absolutely, it breeds far right mass shooters like it breeds groomers in discord.

No!! said it. I think it's inevitable with more information out there. Being exposed to bad influences is much easier than in the past. If you choose to isolate yourself from people irl, that only makes you more susceptible.

Don't feel pressured to say yes. Just wanted to specify that!

That's a good point, there's always been bad influences. The shooter barely showed up for in person classes, there was already something going on IRL.

Almost every mainstream site off my head has the potential to lead someone down a dark path of some sort. Obscure places aren't that safe either. I guess it just depends…

The effect of the web is served much the same by any facilitator of communication between indoctrinairre and indoctrinee, wbat makes the internet special is it's efficiency; being outdone in convenience only by school and prison systems, and only inadvertently on the latter's case.

Everything the internet is used for it accelerates, good and bad.