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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by tenpies on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:49PM (#19416880)
> merely allowing far-right dialogue online is essentially responsible for ease of radicalization

The shooter was self described as an eco-fascist and claimed his motivation were two events covered widely by the mainstream media. He was very clearly "of the internet", but are you convinced that deleting "far-right dialogue" would have stopped him?

What about the current state of journalism and politics, which was also very clearly something he aimed to exploit and seems to have manipulated at a far more effective level than past attacks?

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by redisman on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:27PM (#19417465)
I wish we would look more at what he did. Killed 50 muslims. Not what his rambling troll "manifesto" said.
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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by sadris on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:39PM (#19417523)
If you want it to not happen again, then you should look at the why, not the what.
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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by fucking_tragedy on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:03AM (#19418616)
He said why, in fact, he said it three times in the very first three sentences of his manifesto: "It’s the birthrates." x 3.

Where do we hear conspiracy theories about "the great replacement"[1] coming from? CNN or people like Lauren Southern[2][3]?

Or, the fact that he literally states what he wants (it's the 14 words):

> What do you want?

> We must ensure the existence of our people, and a future for white children.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Replacement_conspira...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDmsmN43NA

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by fucking_tragedy on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:00AM (#19418605)
> The shooter was self described as an eco-fascist

Did you forget the dozen or so pages ranting about "white genocide" and "the great replacement"? What about the 49 Muslim people he murdered?

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