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> and those individuals actually reduced the amount of hate speech they engaged in Did they reduce their amount of hate speech because they no longer had a, er

• ceras 8y ago
  To add to that, the authors acknowledge a similar weakness of the study: "We note that while the ban may have worked for Reddit, from a macro-perspective, it may have also relocated the behavior onto other sites." Since in this discussion we're concerned about macro effects, I'd be careful not to over-index on this study.
  • fb_throwaway_99 8y ago
    > it may have also relocated the behavior onto other sites." ...thus raising the costs to share and promote the views, to the extent that Facebook is a more efficient shared-medium for exchanging ideas versus a random website without the built-in virality possible with Facebook.
• mFixman 8y ago
  People used to engage in hate speech in every subreddit. Several months before /r/hatpeoplehate was banned, every single submission containing a fat person was flooded with insults unrelated to the topic. The same thing happened with older racist subreddits.
• sangnoir 8y ago
  > There's a big difference between people self-censoring due to a chilling effect, and an actual change in beliefs. To society - or victims - the difference is moot. Do you care if the former rapist was genuinely reformed by a prison sentence, or are just "self-censoring"? Changing beliefs is not the goal, reducing harm is.