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Seems a lot like what's happening with the modern left, honestly. But I think there's a way around that, especially on platforms, it's just to separate opinion
by version_five 3y ago
Seems a lot like what's happening with the modern left, honestly.
But I think there's a way around that, especially on platforms, it's just to separate opinion from personal attack.
HN does that pretty well, though not perfectly. But in society people have gotten away with promoting this pretend idea that ideas can be the same as violence (or variation on that) and want to pretend that some general claim someone makes is the same as a personal attack. If we can have platforms that are mature enough not to get caught in that, I think it's possible for different views to be aired and repugnant ones to be called out.
- test098 3y agoexcept echo chambers usually lock out dissenting voices and prevent repugnant views from being called out. they can also be breeding grounds for disinformation and indoctrination, so allowing them to propagate (and become normalized) doesn't really work. this becomes especially bad when say, a young person goes online and is gradually convinced that their own failings are actually because of some external force which is taking all the jobs, or taking over the country, or some other falsehood which leads them to real life violence.