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Crap. The containment board is down. I never thought I would want to create a go fund me for voat. But if it keeps stuff contained in the long run?
by intended 6y ago
Crap. The containment board is down.
I never thought I would want to create a go fund me for voat. But if it keeps stuff contained in the long run?
- altdatathrow 6y agoThere are plenty of other alt-right hangouts, and probably 3 more already started today.
- city41 6y agoIs that a good thing? Seems when extremists get together with only other extremists, they become even more extreme.
- zemo 6y agois there any evidence to support the idea that having places for hate speech to grow has a quarantine effect, reducing hate speech elsewhere? Studies on the effects of banning hate speech communities suggest that the mechanics don't work that way. For example, when reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate and other subreddits centered around hate groups, other subreddits did not inherit the hate speech problem, and former hate group users reduced the amount of hateful content they posted. http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
- nicbou 6y agoIf you spread them among fragmented communities, the "clean" communities remain the louder voice on the internet.
- input_sh 6y agoThey still have their own echo chambers. thedonald[.]win, Gab, and Parler come to mind.
- rchaud 6y agoWasn't 8chan a containment board as well?