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> Booting someone like Jones from Facebook or YouTube altogether could easily turn him into a martyr among his paranoid fans. This would be significantly less
by geofft 8y ago
> Booting someone like Jones from Facebook or YouTube altogether could easily turn him into a martyr among his paranoid fans.
This would be significantly less of a problem if he didn't somehow have a legion of paranoid fans ready to consider him a martyr. Wonder how they got there.
This article understates Jones' Sandy Hook activities, by the way: the parents of one of the victims have moved seven times because their address keeps getting published to those paranoid fans, and they now live hundreds of miles from their child's grave. In response to the lawsuit, Jones has claimed that the parents are public figures because of their involvement in gun control politics, so he can say what he likes about them to those paranoid fans.
- the_solenoid 8y agoStochastic Terrorism in action. You skirt free-speech limiting by baiting the already unhinged, then the thing you "didnt ask anyone to do" happens.
- ocfx 8y ago> This would be significantly less of a problem if he didn't somehow have a legion of paranoid fans ready to consider him a martyr. Wonder how they got there. So just ban everyone we disagree with before they get enough fans is the suggestion? Sounds like you're implying that here. For every vocal crazy person silenced by such a policy there are plenty of well intentioned people challenging the status quo who would also be silenced.