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Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.ny

Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf... Voat is discussed elsewhere here, too. In short, the point was precisely to get the speech off Reddit because it was poisoning Reddit. People said it wasn’t worth them trying because it would move to other subreddits. It didn’t, it moved offsite entirely. De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one.

kerkeslager 7y ago
> Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf.... Thank you for responding with actual data. I'll have to read the article. > De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one. I'm not sure how one can look at Reddit being more consistently liberal, and Voat being... Voat, and see this as "reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces".
- Pxtl 7y ago
  Reddit also delisted the Chapo Trap House subreddit, it's not exclusively conservatives that are toxic. And Reddit's clean up wasn't about liberal vs conservatives, it was about teen-ogling perverts, overt racism, and threats of violence.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    What does "toxic" even mean, if it includes CTH? Oooh, they're socialist nerds! Very scary!
    - Pxtl 7y ago
      Even the CTH podcasters themselves quite famously hate the CTH subreddit.
    - xyzzyz 7y ago
      Ask reddit admins, who decide to quarantine it from the rest of reddit.

kerkeslager 7y ago

> Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf.... Thank you for responding with actual data. I'll have to read the article. > De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one. I'm not sure how one can look at Reddit being more consistently liberal, and Voat being... Voat, and see this as "reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces".

Pxtl 7y ago
Reddit also delisted the Chapo Trap House subreddit, it's not exclusively conservatives that are toxic. And Reddit's clean up wasn't about liberal vs conservatives, it was about teen-ogling perverts, overt racism, and threats of violence.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  What does "toxic" even mean, if it includes CTH? Oooh, they're socialist nerds! Very scary!
  - Pxtl 7y ago
    Even the CTH podcasters themselves quite famously hate the CTH subreddit.
  - xyzzyz 7y ago
    Ask reddit admins, who decide to quarantine it from the rest of reddit.