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Is it really that hard to unfollow? Worked for me. I’ve unfollowed people for sportsball and I’ve unfollowed people for racism. Worked for both.
by paulsutter 8y ago
Is it really that hard to unfollow? Worked for me. I’ve unfollowed people for sportsball and I’ve unfollowed people for racism. Worked for both.
- darpa_escapee 8y agoYou're conflating outright lies with liking sportsball.
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- empath75 8y agobeing a racist and enjoying baseball -- basically morally equivalent, right.
- maym86 8y agoRight. If you ban racists openly spouting hate speech and inciting violence it's clearly a very fine line between that and banning baseball. Slippery slope. How can we possibly draw that line.
- maym86 8y agoIn some case there is direct harm caused by the posts. Pizzagate was an example which led to a man turning up to a pizza shop with a gun based on the fake story and the business owners received death threats. Not everything is as easy as just unfollowing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory When it comes to hate speech, incitment to do harm or lies about elections a subset of people unfollowing doesn't mean there still won't be harmful consequences.
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- paulsutter 8y agoPizzagate was unfortunate and pathetic, but is controlling every post on the Internet the right response? Once censorship is in place, how do you prevent the wrong people from taking control of it? How would you even know?
- maym86 8y ago> trying to control every post on the Internet Did I suggest this? The point is just unfollowing people as you suggested doesn't solve the problem.
- paulsutter 8y agoIf you’re proposing a trusted third party, I’m calling it a security hole that might not turn out quite the way you hope
- darkerside 8y agoLet me try to draw the line you're not following here. The solution parent is outlining is assigning responsibility for actions to the users of the platform, not is creators or maintainers.
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- empath75 8y agohttps://www.concordia.ca/research/migs/resources/rwanda-radio-transcripts.html https://www.concordia.ca/research/migs/resources/rwanda-radi... > From October 1993 to late 1994, RTLM was used by Hutu leaders to advance an extremist Hutu message and anti-Tutsi disinformation, spreading fear of a Tutsi genocide against Hutu, identifying specific Tutsi targets or areas where they could be found, and encouraging the progress of the genocide. In April 1994, Radio Rwanda began to advance a similar message, speaking for the national authorities, issuing directives on how and where to kill Tutsis, and congratulating those who had already taken part. Almost a million people were killed during the genocide, egged on by radio stations. "Just don't listen to it" wouldn't have been an effective strategy.
- paulsutter 8y agoThis is a interesting example, quoting from the article so more people can see it > [Radio Rwanda] was barred from continuing to disseminate hate propaganda. This led the Hutu Power circle around President Habyarimana and his wife to found RTLM as a private radio station. RTLM became immensely popular as a young, hip alternative to the official voice of the government. It played popular music, and encouraged the public to phone in and participate in radio broadcasts. Amongst its listeners, RTLM attracted the unemployed youth and Interhamwe militia.