4 ms·
> Censors have shown an utter and complete lack of evidence that censorship reduces violence whatsoever That's because the scale and untracked nature of such
by TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
> Censors have shown an utter and complete lack of evidence that censorship reduces violence whatsoever
That's because the scale and untracked nature of such noncensored sites make their impact difficult to quantify. We know that social contagions exist, but we don't know the extent to which they affect people.
School shootings are far, far more common than they used to be. They started to really rise around the same time that sites like 4chan glorified the shooters and discussed the issue like it was a game. They spoke of becoming an hero(sic), talked of getting a high score, and made memes of their dead bodies.
The world tends to loathe extremes. We know that extreme censorship causes social issues. Why wouldn't complete non-censorship combined with anonymity cause issues too?
- riggernetard 6y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/exports/homicide-rates-across-western-europe-10583a5a083e2959491228e50201be98_v4_850x600.svg https://ourworldindata.org/exports/homicide-rates-across-wes... https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Violence-Stylized-2.png https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vi... https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-1.30.01-PM-1519756226.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=1000&h=427 https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2018/02/Sc... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.N_4i8HfZ4_caPVq7oGIQaAHaFi%26pid%3DApi&f=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... the world is roughly 100000% less violent than it used to be, and the violent crime rate has not increased much in the past 5-10 years. this is a total lie.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoThis isn't a lie, but it's also more nuanced than this. The world has been seeing a massive decrease in poverty. At the same time, only something like 4.6 billion people have internet. I'm not saying that social media causes a flood of violence, I'm just saying that there are violent social contagions that should be addressed. Think of ISIS's social media campaigns for recruitment.
- kodah 6y agoThis account name is trash.