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A comment on The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by naravara on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:50PM (#15221092)
>usually the tool that societies reach for to kill ideas is to kill the people that hold them. 99 times out of 100

This sounds like a conclusion reached through confirmation bias.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by busterarm on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:54PM (#15221131)
At least it didn't have to be from survivorship bias.

HEY!

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