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> I really do hope this will work to stop the propagation of hate speech at least a bit, otherwise several countries will be governed by neonazis in a few years

> I really do hope this will work to stop the propagation of hate speech at least a bit, otherwise several countries will be governed by neonazis in a few years, and even the EU itself might break. This is serious. That's hilarious. You basically said "People who don't have the right opinions should go to jail!". Maybe if your governments had attempted to explain why the far-right is wrong instead of suppressing them, they would have been less radical. You can't just sweep the thoughts and emotions of your people under the rug, even (especially) if they are unpalatable to you, and hell, to me as well.

tpm 10y ago
No, I did not say that, and did not mean that, they just have to stop the messages from spreading massively (right or wrong does not really mean a lot now). Trouble is, social media is new, it is very effective in spreading a message - any message really - and the society (and state institutions are a part of the society) did not yet adapt to it. The controlling mechanisms, the culture around the new medium, are not really there yet. So this is the dangerous time when fringe forces are trying to exploit it for evil purposes. And it is not impossible they will succeed in this, like they succeeded in radicalizing the masses in the 20's and 30's with different media.