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It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. There was holocaust denier before F
by jeromegv 6y ago
It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. There was holocaust denier before Faceook, but their reach was much more limited. Remember that Facebook promotes groups and suggest you content that you're not following, so when holocaust deniers are part of the platform, some people with no exposure to the concept might start getting recommendations to follow this content. Banning it prevents it. They can scream on their small social network that reach 200 people but that won't convince millions of people of joining the movement.
- 0xB31B1B 6y agoWeird how the true evidence based comment is downvoted here. Regardless of your ideological priors the evidence we have shows deplatforming works to limit dis info spread. I have yet to hear an argument about why we should not deplatform holocaust deniers.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoWhat evidence? There are no references in your post or the post you're replying to.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago> It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. Would you mind linking to the studies you have in mind? In thinking about the likes of The_Donald and its current, banished form.
- vajrabum 6y agoI got curious about it's current, banished form because I'd missed that bit of the story. It's about what I'd expect except they have a non-CCDA compliant cookie notice with no opt-out. Makes me wonder if that's because they have amateur web devs or if the management didn't want to include it because California and politics.
- vajrabum 6y agoI also notice that if you search on that community there are lots of references to it on Twitter, Wikipedia, and other places.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoIt's also been shown repeatedly that censorship has harmful unintended effects. For some reason Facebook saw fit to write a post about this, thereby letting lots of people know about the very speech they're trying to remove. The Streisand effect is already at work.