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This is awesome news. Deplatforming works and these guys are so blatantly harmful.
by cm2012 8y ago
This is awesome news. Deplatforming works and these guys are so blatantly harmful.
- Veen 8y agoDeplatforming works to achieve what exactly?
- happytoexplain 8y agoStemming the spread of hatred and violence.
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- naasking 8y ago1. Is there evidence that they've actually incited hatred and violence? If so, then they've violated the law. If there's no such evidence, then what justification would you use now? 2. Where's the evidence that hatred and violence are spreading? 3. Where's your evidence that censoring is successful in "stemming the spread of hatred and violence"?
- fs2 8y agoExcept the videos of Watson aren't spreading hate or violence but he is just another person with an opinion. Because it's unpopular opinion and because he worked with Infowars in the past it's easy to make him into the "bad guy".
- jonny_eh 8y agoIt works to remove platforms from people who spread hate and misinformation. https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming-alex-jones/ https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming...
- tjenkinsqs 8y agoSo will CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, etc. finally be de-platformed for "Weapons of Mass Destruction". This has caused actual destruction in terms of trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's lives and the rise of ISIS with massive destruction in the middle east.
- cm2012 8y agoCan you figure out why CNN, MSNBC and Fox are different from the people banned in the above article?
- Faark 8y agoa) Deplatforming should never be used for revenge, but to prevent bad outcomes in the future. You seem to entirely focus on the past instead of arguing for it to have any future benefit. Incidentally, "by now everyone knows it's satire" is one of the better arguments against banning infowars and milo nowadays seems unable to get enough of an audience to make a profit. Thus recent actions happening only now can easily be seen more as virtue signaling than effective deplatforming. But i guess better late than never. b) It is only possible to deplatform small parties. Wanting to deplatform the US president or the largest media network in the US (or in your case all of them) is unreasonable. edit: wording
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- jonny_eh 8y agoThere's a difference between "making a mistake" and being an agent whose goal is to spread hate and misinformation.
- naasking 8y agoWhere's the proof that they are intentionally and maliciously hateful rather than simply being mistaken about those you think they hate?
- Creationer 8y agoTo silence people you disagree with, and to suppress inconvenient facts and debate.
- Chris_Chambers 8y agoPeople like you deserve harm.