Facebook to ban white nationalist content

Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by betterunix2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:07PM (#19508494)

White supremacists use Facebook for the purpose of recruiting and radicalizing people who are not yet white supremacists. The point of a ban like this is not to deradicalize people who are already white supremacists, it is to make it harder for people to become radicalized in the first place. People do not typically seek out white supremacists; white supremacists are always looking for people who are vulnerable to their message. Facebook seems to have come to the conclusion that their platform is just too useful to such terrorist groups and have decided to ban them before the problem gets worse.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by hi5eyes on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:28PM (#19508625)

>it is to make it harder for people to become radicalized in the first place

I've been in fb group chats with holocaust deniers etc. (mans literally inboxed me a youtube video, I never bothered clicking the links he sent but it was funny)

"banning white nationalist content" is a cute headline but doesn't hit the problem of seemingly benign normal users that would never "reveal their power level" slowly radicalizing their friends with content not on their site lol

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by betterunix2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:37PM (#19508673)

I said "harder" not "impossible." Yes, white supremacists are still going to use Facebook and are still going to try to radicalize people, but it will be harder.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by hi5eyes on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:44PM (#19508708)

"harder" not "impossible."

The Rhetoric Tricks, Traps, and Tactics of White Nationalism https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-an...

the overt white nationalism content you think of doesn't really exist, i guess maybe if ur a boomer it still lingers? idk

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by betterunix2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:51PM (#19508751)

I sure saw a lot of overtly antisemitic, racist, white supremacist imagery in that article...

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by hi5eyes on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:57PM (#19508791)

those memes are really old, theres more subtle content that radicalizes people

its less orchestrated and just friendly until a point

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