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• MasterPraetorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bit of context and spoilers - He was making a statement about social media threats/harassment

  The first part - using social media - whoever people vote to be killed, gets killed. Trying to show these actions have consequences. The people voting feel immune to these consequences. They just voted, they didn’t kill anybody.
  He goes through 5 rounds of voting, with more votes every time. After each round, the most voted for is killed.

  Up to this point he’s exposing people trying to use social media to try and harm people Eventually he turns it around, and kills everyone who voted

  The whole thing kicked off because his friend/romantic interest tried to commit suicide from cyber bullying. He’s pushing that these actions have consequences, even if you hide behind a screen.

  The killer himself is a psycho, so the morals aren’t exactly impactful to him. As for anyone else questioning, the definitely do.

  Disclaimer - been a while since I watched the episode. It’s pretty good, definitely need some suspension of disbelief (but that’s most episodes)

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get that what he’s trying to do, it’s just his actions are self-defeating. The only reason the behavior on social media has violent consequences is because he’s imposing them; no one else in that story is killing people based on meaningless Facebook polls. They only matter because he makes them matter. He causes the problems he thinks he is solving.

    Also he assumes his actions will make people reconsider their choices and change, which they won’t because people for the most part aren’t capable of change. Most people don’t have the ability to do so. Those who do deliberately refuse to because they’re happy the way they are regardless of their true nature’s consequences to other people.

    It’s just a stupid gimmicky show pretending to be deep to get views. That’s all.

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    • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Behavior on social media can definitely have consequences in real life, even violent. Many shooters vere radicalized by social media groups, for example.

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      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A fair point. The episode just doesn’t demonstrate it well at all.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah people don’t think too deep about TV shows

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s their problem, especially with a show like Black Mirror for which the whole point is to make people think

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    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “What if technology was…(wait for it)…bad sometimes.”

      So thought provoking.

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      • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “What if technology was… (wait for it)… just technology, you ape with a gun”

        Technology is neither good nor bad, it’s how you use it. The intent of Black Mirror is to make you think about how you use technology… but of course if you blame technology for your own actions, it doesn’t work.

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