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Technology is amoral and the connectivity which helps a civil rights movement can equally be the platform for a lynch mob. There is no implicit democracy in interactivism – the most organised and connected, the most vociferous and offended can tip the balance.
Online response is instant, and often lightly committed and should sometimes be treated as such. Perhaps next time the viral activism will be directed against corruption in politics or against social injustice.