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> Simply shutting people up convinces no one I mean, effectively shutting up one side of a discussion will surely convince most people to agree with the side b

• gibba999 5y ago
  No. It doesn't. We try this over and over. Racism is an even bigger example. You go from public views to closeted views. Closeted views are usually more harmful. I've been in openly racist environments and in ones with closet racism. Open racists are sometimes easy to ignore, often easy to circumvent, and in some cases, possible to convince. Closeted racists are much more subversive. You can see the same effects in countries with totalitarian religious regimes, where the religion comes off behind closed doors. People pretending to follow public health measures when they know they're being watched is a worst-case scenario -- at that point, you can't even do studies on what works.
• syshum 5y ago
  It is not, it is creating platform echo chambers. The video is not taken offline, it was just taken off YT. So you end up with silo's of information where different groups of people have a different reality, which IMO is even more dangerous than misinformation, because it makes it harder to see alternate opinions if all your info is silo'ed