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The problems in these people's lives, that caused them to turn to hate and aggression, will not be solved attempting to excommunicate them. In fact, I suspect
by DINKDINK 9y ago
The problems in these people's lives, that caused them to turn to hate and aggression, will not be solved attempting to excommunicate them. In fact, I suspect it will exacerbate them.
- markdown 9y agoI disagree. Having a place to go where likeminded people encourage you to do bad shit isn't a good thing. Stormfront was an echo-chamber of hate that normalised their members evil thoughts and actions.
- flukus 9y agoIf you think it's an echo chamber now then wait until they have their own video streaming sites, twitter clones, etc. Then wait for people who are conservatives, alt-righters, or anyone else that's no longer PC enough to start sharing these spaces because they've been chased off mainstream sites. It's the best recruitment tool stormfront could hope for.
- markdown 9y agoI'm not sure what your point is. Stormfront was their home base. > Then wait for people who are conservatives, alt-righters, or anyone else that's no longer PC enough to start sharing these spaces because they've been chased off mainstream sites. That's what just happened. They were chased off all mainstream sites and could only spew their hatred on SF. Then that got taken away from them.
- pandaman 9y agoStormfront was somebody's home base but not everyone's or even significant fraction of so-called "alt-right". In terms you hopefully understand it is as same as saying slashdot is the home base of "computer geeks".
- pandaman 9y agoOne could say, that shutting down containment sites will be extremely painful.