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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by TeaDrunk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:27AM (#25711390)
Deplatforming from what I understand works in deradicalization at the population level. That is, if you want a smaller population of radicals, you deplatform them. If you want less radical behavior, you deplatform them.

(NOTE: the following paper also covers what happens to the radicals who remain radicals post-deplatforming, which is super interesting.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231209220...

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by diveanon on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:15AM (#25712235)
This worked against ISIS and I didn't see anyone complaining about free speech then.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chillwaves on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:39AM (#25711491)
Exactly. They have no right to the megaphone that social media offers.

Let them build their own websites and find their own audiences.

This is quarantining of ideological violence.

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