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I don't think so, because not all opinions have equal power. By allowing nazis and white supremacists a safe haven, you inadvertently shift the entire platform
by consteval 2y ago
I don't think so, because not all opinions have equal power. By allowing nazis and white supremacists a safe haven, you inadvertently shift the entire platform right. Because those opinions are so extreme, even those who disagree are nudged in that direction. Whereas centrist or slightly left-leaning opinions, which describes almost all of the American left, don't create that much inertia. It's easy to say "I'm not a nazi, but <insert more tame conservative opinion>".
Just intuitively from what I've seen, there's been a large cultural shift towards the right in the past 5-10 years. I believe the internet is general is the primary cause of it. Extreme opinion are given space, even if they're not taking 100% seriously. They don't need to be, it's a spectrum, and even just 5% humor leads to being more right than you were before.
This could, maybe, be balanced if there were an equal number of extremists on the left. But there just isn't. I don't see communist gatherings. I don't see communist twitter accounts. I'll see a communist here and there, but even at worse it's almost always a democratic socialist. I don't see communists committing a January 6th. Point is, the extreme right goes unchallenged in their extremism, and the moderate voices of the modern left are essentially being drowned out.
The end result is Twitter is decidedly conservative facing overall. And, really, the entire country, and, possibly, the whole world.