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It’s crazy how people still don’t understand how the internet works differently than meatspace. If an extreme right position eliminates the platform for a moder
by jl2718 6y ago
It’s crazy how people still don’t understand how the internet works differently than meatspace. If an extreme right position eliminates the platform for a moderate conservative, those positions are going to be taken by their enemies, not their allies. The same tactic doesn’t work in the opposite direction because nothing on the left is out of bounds. Because of this double-standard at the extremes, it’s impossible for a moderated Internet forum not to slide ‘left’, and it’s impossible for an unmoderated forum to not slide ‘right’.
Given so much internet and so little real-world interaction, I think we’ve completely lost touch with what ‘regular’ people actually think.