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Honest question -- do you think that without Facebook there will be no tensions between anti-maskers and people who insist on wearing masks everywhere? Is FB re
by nopriorarrests 6y ago
Honest question -- do you think that without Facebook there will be no tensions between anti-maskers and people who insist on wearing masks everywhere? Is FB really to blame here?
- zepto 6y agoYes. I think it’s a huge amplifier of what would otherwise be fringe ideas. In the absence of FB, there would be tensions, but no battleground.
- ryandrake 6y agoWithout Facebook and the self-amplifying validation bubbles it produces, being "anti-mask" would be seen as just as ridiculous as being an anti-vaccine or a flat-earther. There wouldn't be tensions at all because the fringe group wouldn't have any other way to grow to the point where there could be "tensions".
- HarrisonFisk 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
- hkai 6y agoYes. The progressives were fighting against the mask mandate imposed by the lynching-friendly Republican mayor of SF. They were saying that mask mandates are unscientific, and turned out to be right: > A study then in 1919 concluded that mandatory mask mandates did not make any difference on epidemic