Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?

Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by JulianMorrison on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#22206009)

What you're describing is "that heap of Nazis over there". It doesn't matter if the deplatformed people pop back up in marginal, poorly connected hate-tolerant sites. That actually helps. They have been successfully "sent to Coventry" in a place where their cultural impact is nil.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by jessaustin on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:15PM (#22206465)

So we don't have to worry about Nazis anymore? I'm glad to learn that; somehow I had been misinformed by the newspapers.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:36PM (#22206052)

I don't know on what basis you think that their cultural impact is nil.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by JulianMorrison on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:44PM (#22206133)

Because they're left in a situation where the only people they're able to talk to are already-committed Nazis.

Some of those have indirect diffusion paths back out into the mainstream culture. But the direct ones are blockaded.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:59PM (#22206304)

Is the voting booth not direct enough for you?

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