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Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by newacct583 on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:01PM (#24875283)
Exactly. There are limits to the crazy. In moderation, giving people an outlet for frustration is fine. UFO abduction, all that stuff.

But when the crazy gets weaponized for the benefit of actual policy actors, which is what has clearly happened here, we need to start getting it under control.

It's not that Q and adrenochrome and pizzagate and birtherism and even the The Protocols are that dangerous per se. It's that people with power discovered they could use the nuts who believed that stuff to get more power.

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Re:The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon by varjag on Saturday October 24, 2020 @05:19AM (#24877974)
And social media in the past decade has enabled lateral communication channels to mobilise the crazy mobs. Now you don't need to convince the journalists to get your drivel through out. You don't even have to be in the same country at all.
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