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Regardless of whether you support or oppose this kind of content, there are perfectly good reasons search for it and share it. This whole "don't talk about it,
by eloisius 5y ago
Regardless of whether you support or oppose this kind of content, there are perfectly good reasons search for it and share it. This whole "don't talk about it, don't look at it" strategy that tech companies are taking is downright scary. I support identifying and transparently outing state actors. I'm not comfortable with it, but even censoring or caveating content based on author or institution is better than censoring based on the content itself.
For example, someone close to me expressed support for the "Proud Boys." This person in particular has been duped by evangelical movements in the past that all have one curious detail in common: they prohibit masturbation. Half to make fun of him, half to help him, I wanted to share a link with him to the Proud Boy's official website because he wouldn't believe me when I said they ban jackin' it. Facebook Messenger (in private DMs) refused to send a message including the link. "Send failed. Operation could not be completed." I tried an archive.org archive of it, same thing.