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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
by 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 agoAllow 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 agowhen I was growing up, genocide is not free speech, war is not free speech
- drcongo 6y agoQanon 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.