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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by ralusek on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:05PM (#26437963)
And would you describe things as having gotten better this last year?

And I don't mean in the sense that you see less of what you think there should be less of online, because then of course it's gotten better if that's the variable being minimized. I mean, do you think the state of extremism and political unity has improved via marginalizing views held by enormous portions of the population?

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by ForHackernews on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:14PM (#26438058)
Yeah, absolutely! In the US, Trump lost the election and we have a genuine shot at police reform for the first time in a generation. In Europe, the pandemic has exposed the incompetence of empty populism.
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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by meshenna on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:55PM (#26440798)
> has exposed the incompetence of empty populism.

I'd say it has exposed incompetence in general.

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