Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of …
...in famous studies like the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment... [n]ormal, noncriminal people were coerced into doing horrible things, such as torturing others, through no mechanism other than social pressure.
— Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Okay first of all "noncriminal" is sure doing a lot of work here that does not get unpacked! Throwing out uncritical references to these two studies, especially in the same breath, is such a red flag to me.
