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The thing is, "deplatforming" is always popular with people as long as the thoughts unpopular among those people are being deplatformed. But once the mechanism
by inglor_cz 2y ago
The thing is, "deplatforming" is always popular with people as long as the thoughts unpopular among those people are being deplatformed. But once the mechanism for systemic deplatforming has been built, it can be captured by other groups.
I suspect that after 15-20 years of the pendulum swinging to a fro, the "freeze peach" crowd may reconsider the value of, again, systemic tolerance.
- piva00 2y agoThe whole "deplatforming" has always been a stupid whack-a-mole. The core issue is the media itself, social media as it is will always tend to make bullshit spread fast and wild because that's the entire nature of bullshit. It's broken in its core, I don't see any way to patch what social media has developed into. Reactionary ideas are more viral, hatred is more viral, the metric is always "engagement" and there's no primal drive in humans to be more engaged with boring stuff like truthful, nuanced, and commeasured discussion rather than ragebait (on both sides). It feels to me we actually devolved to a world where norms, morals, etc. are defined by amoral virtual entities feeding people with content to make them engage more with the virtual entities... It's fucking dark and absurd the deeper I think about it, we're already being controlled by the machines we created.