Another example of why the thing is not viable
It violates our key principle: Human scale.
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus soloists receive death threats after satirical song is misunderstood
Critics have used various Twitter accounts to take screenshots of the chorus, numbered the individuals and created spreadsheets, harassing them, even at their places of work. “All over a satirical piece of music,” says Verdugo, noting that the chorus has been working with both the local police and FBI on the threats.
They sent their expression out into the insanity of the hyper-scale internet.
A million people heard it. A fraction misinterpreted it. A tiny fraction of that fraction were psychologically unstable enough to conceivably grab a gun.
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The solution was to make the video private. To establish limits and boundaries. To reverse the mistake of insane-scale exposure.
The internet phenomenon violates principles re: sane human lifeways which must be human-scale, grounded in a particular-place-on-earth, characterized by familiarity and stability. Anything that involves a limitless number of essentially anonymous strangers is bound to be problematic.
