Monday, June 8, 2020

Oxford's Rumor-Mill

Spreading unkind gossip in person or online is not a decent or mature way to act. But this mode of black-listing is alive and well. It is akin to the old village stocks, where people who had carried out misdemeanors towards another individual, the prevailing authority or society at large would be clamped in by the feet and hands, for open mockery and to have rotten food thrown at him or her. This mode of humiliation is alive and well and finds its channel through social media.

This is an abuse of the systems which were created to connect people, and there should be heavy criminal fines for anyone abusing it. People who abuse it should be locked out from using such platforms "for life". There should also be an age limit for its use, somewhere in the range of forty years old.

If a particular user of such platforms is merely using it for gossip, they should be locked out for life! But this system of abuse is alive and well in one of the prevailing university cities. Oxford. Those creating abusive content and reading it are no better than each other. Such collectives disgrace society.