Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by oh_sigh on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:50AM
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If that guy was an "otherwise typical" user of gab, and gab has ~500,000 active users(per wikipedia), why hasn't there been more than one story about gab-user-gone-wild in the media?
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Isn't that (the fact this guy shot 11 Jews dead and the other users haven't) exactly what "otherwise typical" refers to?
The way he talked on Gab seems pretty typical of users there, so going and shooting people seems like the only thing that wasn't typical.
Or are you arguing something else?
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
by hackeraccount on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:14AM
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It is the violence that people have a problem with not the speech right? I mean if the neighbors upstairs are talking about how much the hate me I don't have a problem though that would change if they knock on my door with baseball bat in hand.
It sounds like Gab is being de-platformed for the typical part and not the otherwise part.
I've got a pretty big problem with the speech too!
I don't understand how people can claim on one hand that Instagram/Facebook/Whatever is making people more superficial while at the same time claim that people encouraging each other to be violently racist has no effect at all.