You can't censor away extremism or any other problem

Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by lliamander on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:50PM (#26443758)

The KKK, once one of the most powerful political forces in the United States, now can't even volunteer to clean up trash off a highway in Georgia.

They numbers are tiny and politically they are impotent.

And none of that change required hate speech laws.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by strgcmc on Saturday March 13, 2021 @09:23AM (#26446730)

You are talking about squeezing one side of a balloon without noticing that the other end is getting bigger.

The KKK is effectively a non-entity today in modern society, sure. That's partly because "they" became Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc. etc. As with the broader societal trends of transitioning away from traditional pre-digital power structures and groups, a rich ecosystem of new white nationalist groups have sprung up in the digital age to feed off the same hate that the KKK used to organize around.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by intended on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:58AM (#26445447)

We don’t live in that era. Yes Recruiting for extremist causes has never been easier.

There’s a list of extremist groups now that never existed before.

And At no point in the recent past has there been a breach of security in the capitol like in Jan this year.

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