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Source? Any definitive backing for this claim? Because it sounds rather asinine that a public force would want to nuke a platform that's "serving their agenda",

Source? Any definitive backing for this claim? Because it sounds rather asinine that a public force would want to nuke a platform that's "serving their agenda", albeit imperfectly. Instead of actively purging content from one side, they rather appear to be bringing more radicalized people from both sides together in their own distinct echo chambers. This is the case at least for Facebook; there exists just as much "agenda" promotion of notions labeled anti-liberal and far-right as there is of notions labeled leftist or anti-conservative. It's all a matter of how you perceive it from your custom feed on that platform.

Jiro 5y ago
They don't want to nuke it, they want more censorship in it. The nuking is just the threat.
dimitrios1 5y ago
I prefer to take perception or other subjective matters out of the equation and just look at raw tallies. How many high profile conservative/right/far-right authors and content have been banned, removed, de-platformed, or demonetized on these services? How many left-wing/progressive/ultra-left have? 10:1? 20:1? (and if you answer with "source?" just take your head out of the sand and look around occasionally -- don't mean this offensively, but anyone who isn't a shill or with some self-serving agenda even bothers debating that the censorship is lopsided) > it sounds rather asinine that a public force would want to nuke a platform that's "serving their agenda", albeit imperfectly. This is exactly what communist/authoritarian regimes do and have done for decades. Sell people that it isn't perfect enough and convince others that state control would take care of it much better.
- dartharva 5y ago
  Uh, you might want to take a look at some of the comments up the chain of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988903

Jiro 5y ago

They don't want to nuke it, they want more censorship in it. The nuking is just the threat.

dimitrios1 5y ago

I prefer to take perception or other subjective matters out of the equation and just look at raw tallies. How many high profile conservative/right/far-right authors and content have been banned, removed, de-platformed, or demonetized on these services? How many left-wing/progressive/ultra-left have? 10:1? 20:1? (and if you answer with "source?" just take your head out of the sand and look around occasionally -- don't mean this offensively, but anyone who isn't a shill or with some self-serving agenda even bothers debating that the censorship is lopsided) > it sounds rather asinine that a public force would want to nuke a platform that's "serving their agenda", albeit imperfectly. This is exactly what communist/authoritarian regimes do and have done for decades. Sell people that it isn't perfect enough and convince others that state control would take care of it much better.

dartharva 5y ago
Uh, you might want to take a look at some of the comments up the chain of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988903