Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by commandlinefan on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:33AM
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> going after Youtube
So... actual government-mandated suppression of free speech?
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by mhoad on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:57AM
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Allow me to reframe this. Considering they are both now considered groups posing a terrorism threat according to the FBI we would hold a platform like YouTube to the same standard on QAnon that we do on ISIS.
You can’t host propaganda from either group because they both have an extremely high likelihood of leading to real world violence based on historical evidence.
That isn’t an unreasonable standard.
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by MrMan on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:32AM
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when I was growing up, genocide is not free speech, war is not free speech
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by drcongo on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:08AM
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Qanon believers are, by definition, people with mental health problems.
Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
by macintux on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:24PM
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> I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers.
There are enough who are simply run-of-the-mill angry white men to be terrifying.
What we should be doing is going after Youtube and other companies that are actively radicalizing people and turning them into Qanon crazies with their irresponsible recommendation algorithms. If Youtube stopped recommending conspiracy theory videos, Qanon and other communities like it would stop growing and would likely die a slow and uneventful death as people simply lose interest.