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A comment on YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by InfiniteBeing on Sunday September 09, 2018 @03:35AM (#17944813)
Groups of people tend to label the speech of their opponents as "hate speech." It seems like more and more speech today is being labeled as "violent" speech.

For any mass murder you can find people blaming some ideology or another as being the root cause.

It's a dangerous path to follow when a party in power wholly believes in jailing people for "hate speech" as they will be silencing and jailing their ideological opponents.

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Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by pjc50 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @05:01AM (#17945031)
> For any mass murder you can find people blaming some ideology or another as being the root cause

Yes, there nearly always is an ideological "cause" or justification for mass murder? That's why everyone's so concerned about it in the first place, it's both a warning sign and a facilitator of genocide.

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