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Censoring ISIS beheading and recruiting videos was effective. Any resentment or suspicion of censorship was far more than offset by the reduction in reach. Su
by panarky 6y ago
Censoring ISIS beheading and recruiting videos was effective.
Any resentment or suspicion of censorship was far more than offset by the reduction in reach.
Suppressing incitement to violence along with the recruitment, training and organization of violent actors is essential.
- thu2111 6y agoYou don't actually know that. Clearly, ISIS didn't need YouTube to spread. It conquered large parts of Syria and was defeated via military means. Plenty of ISIS sympathisers turned up in the west later, but I don't recall reading about many that were radicalised by watching YouTube. Normally they'd either been to Syria, or it was local mosques.