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> At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere. Please do a little more research and thought before posting such things. There is no "

> At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere. Please do a little more research and thought before posting such things. There is no "trash can", it IS SPILLING EVERYWHERE. We even have a QAnon supporter most likely headed to Congress. People are dead because of these hate-filled groups. Shutting them down saves lives, not only in the US but throughout the world. You can't just "leave these groups alone" because the last thing they will ever do is keep to themselves. Hate groups only want two things: to spread their hate and to get rid of the people they hate. To let them be is to support their agenda, and in doing so, people die.

bogwog 6y ago
I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers. I doubt that the people who would actually commit a public shooting are in the majority, and I strongly doubt that taking down their website is going to kill the group. If anything, it will just strengthen the beliefs of the paranoid people who frequent it. What we should be doing is going after Youtube and other companies that are actively radicalizing people and turning them into Qanon crazies with their irresponsible recommendation algorithms. If Youtube stopped recommending conspiracy theory videos, Qanon and other communities like it would stop growing and would likely die a slow and uneventful death as people simply lose interest.
- commandlinefan 6y ago
  > going after Youtube So... actual government-mandated suppression of free speech?
  - mhoad 6y ago
    Allow me to reframe this. Considering they are both now considered groups posing a terrorism threat according to the FBI we would hold a platform like YouTube to the same standard on QAnon that we do on ISIS. You can’t host propaganda from either group because they both have an extremely high likelihood of leading to real world violence based on historical evidence. That isn’t an unreasonable standard.
  - MrMan 6y ago
    when I was growing up, genocide is not free speech, war is not free speech
- drcongo 6y ago
  Qanon believers are, by definition, people with mental health problems.
- macintux 6y ago
  > I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers. There are enough who are simply run-of-the-mill angry white men to be terrifying.

bogwog 6y ago

I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers. I doubt that the people who would actually commit a public shooting are in the majority, and I strongly doubt that taking down their website is going to kill the group. If anything, it will just strengthen the beliefs of the paranoid people who frequent it. What we should be doing is going after Youtube and other companies that are actively radicalizing people and turning them into Qanon crazies with their irresponsible recommendation algorithms. If Youtube stopped recommending conspiracy theory videos, Qanon and other communities like it would stop growing and would likely die a slow and uneventful death as people simply lose interest.

commandlinefan 6y ago
> going after Youtube So... actual government-mandated suppression of free speech?
- mhoad 6y ago
  Allow me to reframe this. Considering they are both now considered groups posing a terrorism threat according to the FBI we would hold a platform like YouTube to the same standard on QAnon that we do on ISIS. You can’t host propaganda from either group because they both have an extremely high likelihood of leading to real world violence based on historical evidence. That isn’t an unreasonable standard.
- MrMan 6y ago
  when I was growing up, genocide is not free speech, war is not free speech
drcongo 6y ago
Qanon believers are, by definition, people with mental health problems.
macintux 6y ago
> I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers. There are enough who are simply run-of-the-mill angry white men to be terrifying.