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Facebook hate groups don't need Twitter accounts to operate. Regardless of the presumably positive outcome for the mainstream timeline, this is likely a futile
by some1else 6y ago
Facebook hate groups don't need Twitter accounts to operate. Regardless of the presumably positive outcome for the mainstream timeline, this is likely a futile whack-a-mole move that only benefits Twitter. Hate groups organize in private and output the vitriol with whichever fake accounts they have in possession. The way to definitively solve this societal problem is to help the people caught in the self-radicalisation filter bubble to overcome their real-life problems that fuel the hate. Banning them from the services that played a part in turning them seems a bit hypocritical.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoThe comparison to hate groups is a little off the mark. QAnon doesn't organize in secret, and so far you're not likely to get fired if someone shows a picture of you wearing a Q shirt to your employer. That said I agree with the broader point that this may not do that much to inhibit QAnon, especially because it exhibits a lot of cultlike belief that might just be reinforced by this ban.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoIn fact, "Q" predicted this behavior by the social media platforms over a year ago, so the QAnon movement is not, in general, surprised by Twitter. According to their conspiracy, Twitter just checked off a box in the list of items they believe will happen coming up in the future.
- shadowgovt 6y agoAs prognostications go, "The mainstream media will find my nonsense so aggressively hateful that they'll kick it off the site" is right up there with "It'll be cold in winter." Especially when Q controls the level of the aggressive hate in the nonsense.
- Fjolsvith 6y ago> Especially when Q controls the level of the aggressive hate in the nonsense. I'm not so sure that the level of aggressive hate from the populace is attributable to Q. I believe he's just tapping into it.
- shadowgovt 6y agoSo, to give a concrete example: one way Q could ratchet back on the aggressive hate in the nonsense is to just stop posting. Stop posting anything. That would ratchet it down.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoIf it is just nonsense hate, what's the big deal?
- shadowgovt 6y agoI'm using "nonsense" in place of the word I choose not to, to keep the conversation polite. It doesn't indicate a lack of danger. Don't mistake the lack of force behind the word for its denotation. Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense.
- Fjolsvith 6y ago> Belief in Protocols-of-Zion-originated global conspiracy theory is also nonsense. Then disbelieve it out of existence. Just because someone believes nonsense, don't think it isn't dangerous.
- shadowgovt 6y ago100% agreement. Some nonsense is dangerous.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoThey tried once to silence Q by taking down 8chan. Like Obi-Wan, he just came back stronger.