Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement

Re:Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Ca... by ameister14 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:30PM (#19923965)

I don't understand that statement. I believe North Korea is a totalitarian state with concentrated power in few hands and no tolerance for dissidence. Are you saying they allow non-state actors to speak and take action freely to promote extreme ideologies there?

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Re:Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Ca... by atoav on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:44PM (#19924865)

The poster probably means that NK is NK, because of its own extremist ideology. So the only way to really get rid of extremists seems to be to become more extreme than them.

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Re:Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Ca... by ameister14 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:11PM (#19925015)

If that's the meaning, then extremism led to the US, France, and a number of other countries.

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Re:Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Ca... by atoav on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:58PM (#19925228)

I didn't say it was the only way of getting rid of extremism. I'd even argue that getting rid of extremism by installing a extremist regime makes as much sense as chopping a leg off because you want to get rid of a headache.

It is important to remember, that no nation no matter how great its tales of freedom or historic shame might be is immune against extremism.

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