Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by NaturalPhallacy on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:33AM
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This misses the point (that the author of OPs post nailed). It doesn't matter that it doesn't scale. It works, and censorship doesn't.
Do you want a (difficult) method that works (personal involvement and direct conversation), or a simple, easy, lazy one (deplatforming/cancel/censorship) that doesn't?
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by yongjik on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:43AM
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Censorship comes with its own problems, but if your position is that it flat out doesn't work, you'd need a more convincing argument.
Nazi censored. Stalin censored. Xi censors. Seems hard to explain if censorship doesn't work.
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by NaturalPhallacy on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:51AM
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>Nazi censored. Stalin censored. Xi censors. Seems hard to explain if censorship doesn't work.
Nazis also killed the speakers. Stalin killed the speakers. Xi kills the speakers.
Citing mass genociders as "censorship works" is hilariously bad evidence of censorship working when terminating the speaker most definitely works.
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by AnimalMuppet on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:03PM
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Sure it worked. Using a nuclear warhead works to solve your ant infestation, too.
We want something that works and that doesn't have the nasty side-effects. Nazi, Stalin, and Xi's tactics aren't the answer we're looking for.
Some great things are done by great people, but they don't necessarily scale well.