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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by caslon on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:14AM (#26433002)
200 people isn't very much. Twitter has 192 million users. Assuming (extremely generously given that twitter is on the Internet and has a userbase that skews younger) that twitter matches America's partisan divide, it probably has around 90 million users.

It seems unlikely that at least a thousand people out of 90 million aren't gullible enough to be swayed by hellbanning.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by NaturalPhallacy on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:27AM (#26433083)
Show me proof that twitter censorship has converted even ONE racist/nazi and I'll entertain this notion.

"it seeming unlikely" hardly compares to a man with 200 trophies to prove his method works.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by caslon on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:34AM (#26433129)
Hellbanning has a history of working well for deradicalization of online communities that were a lot worse than twitter is; Jeff Atwood has a good post giving a brief look at the history of it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/
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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by NaturalPhallacy on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:50AM (#26433220)
That's not proof that any one actual person was deradicalized, which was the metric.

Mr. Davis has 200 examples. I'm only asking for one. His method works. The deplatformers' citation of their own platforms only proves that they control their own platforms, not that any extremist view was changed.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by caslon on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:31AM (#26433421)
That does show that people were deradicalized; read the Metafilter thread linked.
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