Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:41PM
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> Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf....
Thank you for responding with actual data. I'll have to read the article.
> De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one.
I'm not sure how one can look at Reddit being more consistently liberal, and Voat being... Voat, and see this as "reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces".
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by Pxtl on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:19PM
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Reddit also delisted the Chapo Trap House subreddit, it's not exclusively conservatives that are toxic. And Reddit's clean up wasn't about liberal vs conservatives, it was about teen-ogling perverts, overt racism, and threats of violence.
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin...
by jessaustin on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:42PM
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What does "toxic" even mean, if it includes CTH? Oooh, they're socialist nerds! Very scary!
Voat is discussed elsewhere here, too. In short, the point was precisely to get the speech off Reddit because it was poisoning Reddit. People said it wasn’t worth them trying because it would move to other subreddits. It didn’t, it moved offsite entirely.
De-platforming worked for Reddit. OP asked for tech contributions to reducing the amount of polarised speech in online spaces. There is one.