{"id":3428,"date":"2016-05-05T05:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/05\/reddit-has-just-about-proven-godwins-law\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T05:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:49:58","slug":"reddit-has-just-about-proven-godwins-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/05\/reddit-has-just-about-proven-godwins-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit has just about proven Godwin's Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve ever had an extended conversation on the Internet, there’s a very good chance that you or your ideas have been compared to Adolph Hitler or Nazis.<\/p>\n

The propensity for Internet dialogue to eventually feature Nazis is the subject of a popular notion known as\u00a0Godwin’s Law<\/a>: “<\/span>As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Reddit and an enterprising writer, we have the best evidence yet of the law’s veracity.<\/p>\n

The writer behind CuriousGnu.com analyzed some publicly available Reddit data and came to a stunning conclusion. Any thread with more than 1,000 comments had a more than 70% chance of having a Nazi or Hitler mention. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Reddit<\/a>, Business<\/a>, and Media<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve ever had an extended conversation on the Internet, there’s a very good chance that you or your ideas have been compared to Adolph Hitler or Nazis. The propensity for Internet dialogue to eventually feature Nazis is the subject … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,901,1512],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-media","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}