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> . While Sayoc carved out ugly niches on Facebook and Twitter, Bowers found even safer harbor for his racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic passions on Gab, a tw

> . While Sayoc carved out ugly niches on Facebook and Twitter, Bowers found even safer harbor for his racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic passions on Gab, a two-year-old social network that has served as a nursery for white nationalists. pretending people couldn't find places to air antisemitic or white nationalist sentiments before the internet, or that the internet makes it easier, is silly. if anything the internet makes it harder for these fools, because now if they show their faces or use their real names, they're doxed and harangued at every turn by an internet lynchmob. > I don’t know exactly how we square free speech and free expression — which are paramount — with a better policing of the internet, but I’m certain that we need to approach that challenge with more urgency than we have mustered so far. Democracy is at stake. So are lives. right, as opposed to the rosy times before the internet, with timothy mcveigh, the DC sniper, and the unabomber. or how about john wayne gacy? why this guy is paid to spew inane opinions like this is beyond me

wiz21c 8y ago
I really don't understand why you're being downvoted. There are so many ways to be/become a crimminal, internet is just the last one. That's just part of human history (although it's a side we don't like).
matt4077 8y ago
> [..] that the internet makes it easier, is silly If the internet does not make it easier, nor does it make it possible, or cheaper... Then why would anybody do it? I very much think it is silly instead to pretend that whatever Plan B these people would have had to find community with like-minded low-lifes, would, almost by definition be worse than their "Plan A".
tomjen3 8y ago
Because the NYT loaths nerds, because we took away their nice, respectful, secure jobs by destroying newspaper monopolies and taking away their advertising. So they will do everything to destroy the internet, or better yet to be the ones who control it, even turning the NYT into yellow journalism.

wiz21c 8y ago

I really don't understand why you're being downvoted. There are so many ways to be/become a crimminal, internet is just the last one. That's just part of human history (although it's a side we don't like).

matt4077 8y ago

> [..] that the internet makes it easier, is silly If the internet does not make it easier, nor does it make it possible, or cheaper... Then why would anybody do it? I very much think it is silly instead to pretend that whatever Plan B these people would have had to find community with like-minded low-lifes, would, almost by definition be worse than their "Plan A".

tomjen3 8y ago

Because the NYT loaths nerds, because we took away their nice, respectful, secure jobs by destroying newspaper monopolies and taking away their advertising. So they will do everything to destroy the internet, or better yet to be the ones who control it, even turning the NYT into yellow journalism.