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When we didn't ban these people in the 00s and early 10s we didn't get people attacking the Capitol. Within 3 years of starting serious censorship in most majo
by konjin 6y ago
When we didn't ban these people in the 00s and early 10s we didn't get people attacking the Capitol.
Within 3 years of starting serious censorship in most major platforms we have had a near coup.
Sounds like the new system is less effective then blood letting and the only thing that it has going for it is that it makes the people supporting censorship feel better about them selves.
- shadowgovt 6y agoCorrelation doesn't imply causation. Trump wasn't President in the '00s and early '10s either. We didn't have a President advocating sedition to maintain his power. We didn't have a President soft on white supremacy as an acceptable political position. If anything, I'd call the causation reversed---people using social media to organize violence has the companies in charge questioning their own culpability in violent outcomes.
- konjin 6y ago> Correlation doesn't imply causation. And it doesn't not imply it. And did you not pay any attention in the 00s? Bush was a white supremacists and made racism federal policy in airports.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI have no doubt in my mind that if the Charlottesville rally had happened in '02, Bush would not have claimed the are fine people on both sides.
- konjin 6y agoSo you're saying that as long as you say the right words you can be as objectively racist as you want? Like the current VP who did as much as she could to ruin the lives of as many blacks as humanly possible?
- shadowgovt 6y agoI'm saying if you say the right words you don't agitate others to sedition and therefore don't catch a ban. Trump doesn't know how not to say the quiet part loud.
- AgentME 6y agoPeople getting banned for all sorts of stuff certainly isn't new. Before there were large social media platforms that tried to serve everyone, there were lots of forums ran by random people, and you could get banned for pissing their admins off in any way. Large platforms that are neutral to a fault and super hesitant to ban are only a recent part of the internet, not an immutable fact of the internet.