Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by dpq on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:12PM
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I think your attitude is still extremely mild. It doesn't matter if we believe ourselves to be neutral, there are groups that consider themselves our opponents, and will work against everything we stand for. And, unless we decide to fight back or at least stop helping them to promote their agenda (which is often incompatible with values widely shared among secular / educated communities), they will prevail in some manner. See also: 2016 U.S. election.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by azangru on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:10PM
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> to promote their agenda
> ...
> they will prevail in some manner.
As it takes two to tango, so does it take two sides to promote something: one that is doing the promotion and the other that is following the promoter. If the argument is that people are so fickle they will eat up whatever is being directed at them, join the ranks of the promoters, who will thus prevail, then woe upon us. I prefer to think of ourselves as somewhat more capable of resisting insane and malicious messages.