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A good part of it is that regular people don't want to deal with them. They don't want to hear from them, and they definitely don't want to be harassed by them.

A good part of it is that regular people don't want to deal with them. They don't want to hear from them, and they definitely don't want to be harassed by them. Look at the "free speech" platforms, the *Chans. They may not have started out as bastions for neo-nazis and racists, but they became that because, as hate speech and such was not really policed on there, normal people stopped going altogether, leaving only those people behind.

jquery 9y ago
> leaving only those people behind. If you think only neo-nazis and racists hang out on the Chans, you definitely don't hang out there. "The strategy [of people who consider themselves the protectors of decency] is weaponized stereotype campaigns. If a site tolerates witches, describe it as a witch site about witchcraft populated entirely by witches. It’s super easy." - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  I'm not saying they're the only ones, but you cannot deny that those sites have a large proportion of that kind of content.
  - Asooka 9y ago
    Ironically, it's much easier not to interact with that content on 4/8chan than it is on the wider Internet. If you're not there for political shitposting, don't visit /pol/.
ItsDeathball 9y ago
"Normal people" have absolutely not stopped using imageboards. Perhaps they feel outnumbered on the boards specifically devoted to politics because every other venue for political discussion bans certain viewpoints, concentrating proponents of those controversial positions in the free speech platforms. That's only one portion of the imageboard use case. Most people are there to talk about anime, video games, technology, or whatever other esoteric hobbies drive them to seek Internet discussion; it's difficult to work in advocacy for fascism to those discussions without catching a ban for being off-topic.

jquery 9y ago

> leaving only those people behind. If you think only neo-nazis and racists hang out on the Chans, you definitely don't hang out there. "The strategy [of people who consider themselves the protectors of decency] is weaponized stereotype campaigns. If a site tolerates witches, describe it as a witch site about witchcraft populated entirely by witches. It’s super easy." - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...

s73ver_ 9y ago
I'm not saying they're the only ones, but you cannot deny that those sites have a large proportion of that kind of content.
- Asooka 9y ago
  Ironically, it's much easier not to interact with that content on 4/8chan than it is on the wider Internet. If you're not there for political shitposting, don't visit /pol/.

ItsDeathball 9y ago

"Normal people" have absolutely not stopped using imageboards. Perhaps they feel outnumbered on the boards specifically devoted to politics because every other venue for political discussion bans certain viewpoints, concentrating proponents of those controversial positions in the free speech platforms. That's only one portion of the imageboard use case. Most people are there to talk about anime, video games, technology, or whatever other esoteric hobbies drive them to seek Internet discussion; it's difficult to work in advocacy for fascism to those discussions without catching a ban for being off-topic.