[Einstalbert]

He mentions a subreddit dedicated to no rules slowly but surely being taken over by the same kinds of rules lawyer-ing they were trying to escape.

I am so, so glad he mentioned this, because I have seen it happen to two, mid-way three, communities online where these exact societal issues work together only up until they really start to get to know one another, at which point they realize they're at odds. Sometimes it's a clear schism, but the ones that hurt the most are those that remain but are quite clearly forever changed in the favor of one side. It's almost as if they treat it as vindication and banishing a group of people for differences in opinion is, as I said, typically the antithesis of these groups.

My guess is that every online community suffers this sort of breakdown and reinvention if it lasts for more than a few years, but that social justice and other more "modern" ideologies are just the latest and most visible / tracked step in the greater phenomenon.

The internet brought us together, we struggle with that fact every day! :)

[venomsnake]

This is worth a read. It is GG centrist, but explains quite good the cultural war that is waging right now.

http://popehat.com/2014/10/21/gamer-gate-three-stages-to-obi...

[adnzzzzZ]

I find this one https://paxdickinson.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/three-modern-g... a little better but both are pretty good.

[rmc]

So LGBT people, and women are now the powerful people in society, as part of a 1,000 year culture struggle? What next, blame the Jews?

[pessimizer]

> He mentions a subreddit dedicated to no rules slowly but surely being taken over by the same kinds of rules lawyer-ing they were trying to escape.

Anarchism isn't about no rules, it's about no rulers. You seem to be mistaking it for /b/.