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Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zeal... by rimiform on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:49AM (#25346803)
That sounds interesting. I'm not fond of people proclaiming that this desire for increasingly radical media is inherently human, so I'm open to the possibility of a different feedback loop.

Do you have any idea of what that would look like?

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Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zeal... by 082349872349872 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:00AM (#25346967)
Not really, that's why I'm asking here.

"Increasing radicalisation" just sounds much more like former-Yugoslavia than former-USSR to me, and I think the latter became former in a much better manner than the former became former.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373042 for the best I've come up with so far. (the Atlantic article covers deradicalisation of actual trained terrorists, essentially by hooking them up)

Footnote 2, although from a fictional source, is pretty much the whole problem with the idea, from a human factors standpoint.

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