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Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zeal... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:02AM (#25346036)
There's no comparison because it's now near-universally recognized that the moral panic on those topics was silly. But many people in the 80s were pretty convinced that heavy metal and fantasy role playing could drive you insane or make you start worshipping demons. It was the subject of Tom Hanks's first movie! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters)
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Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zeal... by user-the-name on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:34AM (#25346544)
Yes, but that was not true.

Youtube really does have far-right extremist content on it. It really does drive you towards it. This is something happening in reality.

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Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zeal... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:46AM (#25346748)
It was true in part! Judas Priest has a quite emphatic, criminal-friendly message on the topic of Breaking the Law. The question - in both cases - is whether the very real unsavory messages actually cause people to do terrible things they would have otherwise avoided.
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