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You’re looking at this purely through your own lens, but I choose to look at this in terms of society as a whole. We have young people parroting extremist point
by hluska 3y ago
You’re looking at this purely through your own lens, but I choose to look at this in terms of society as a whole. We have young people parroting extremist points of view. That’s a societal failure. Where did our education and child care systems go so wrong as to make extremism this attractive?
Carried through to its natural conclusion, we will end up in fascist states, young people will end up in prison or we’ll end up with more innocent victims. All options are bad, it’s just a question of worst.
- colesantiago 3y agoThat is a bit of a stretch here for Twitter. The chan boards fit more of this example you're talking about of this sort of behavior which predates Twitter. No moderation, no blocking, just 24/7/365 of hate all day. Yet, for 20 years it isn't erased from the web. Twitter may be bigger, but I would say those chan boards that are smaller are much much worse.
- hluska 3y agoAnd for the final time, my point is that both of these are symptoms of something far worse.
- colesantiago 3y agoTargeting Twitter and trying to fix what happens at childhood will not or reduce stop hate online. Adults can still disseminate hate on other online channels. Usually ignoring them, not giving them attention and just sending them to the forces. Should you really give attention to them, the wisdom of the crowd that engages in (doxxing) is already a major deterrent, although I disagree with this, which is why ignoring them already works.