Removing Holocaust Denial Content

Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by myko on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:49AM (#24754877)

This will do the opposite though I think - most of the "antitrust" arguments targeting Facebook seem to be upset that this type of content is being removed / Facebook (and YouTube, Twitter) have too much power in what we see/read.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by dotancohen on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:06AM (#24755113)

    > have too much power in what we see/read.

You choose to type h t t p facebook dot com into your browser. They have absolutely not power in what you see or read, you go there voluntarily. Just stop going there.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by myko on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:46PM (#24757926)

I have stopped going there, I was just explaining what I think the argument is.

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Re:Removing Holocaust Denial Content by Cthulhu_ on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:10AM (#24755161)

True, but that's for people who are awake; in this case, we're not actually dealing with (sane, rational, critically thinking) individuals, but with statistics. Nobody cares about individuals denying the holocaust or whatever, but when it becomes a movement, or a feeling, or a suspicion in enough people, it becomes a statistically significant trend that can influence politics, elections, votes, etc.

I mean there's tons of anti-intellectualism going on now wrt anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, corona-deniers, obama-is-a-kenyan-lizard-man, trump-is-immune-to-the-rona, etc. These are rational individuals, they may not be on Facebook or they may, it doesn't really matter because in the end it's a numbers game.

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