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>Most quantitative reviews on deplatforming and and other social moderation efforts have shown the opposite. Does it though? You don't have to look at social m
by Mirioron 8y ago
>Most quantitative reviews on deplatforming and and other social moderation efforts have shown the opposite.
Does it though? You don't have to look at social media to get a sense of this to know what has happened in the world. You can look at the Soviet Union and GDR instead. Did censorship there end up killing ideas of capitalism and democracy? Because I can assure you that the Soviet Union's censorship was much more thorough than Twitter or YouTube will ever be.
In fact, you could even move away from censorship and ask yourself how effective banning things that people want to do is in general. Bans on alcohol, drugs, books, movies, porn etc have all failed to get rid of them. In cases such as alcohol, it seems that it only increased the consumption of it.