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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by ABCLAW on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:43PM (#27861570)
>ISPs themselves, (older) reddit, 4chan all serve as examples that the people you don't want to talk to can be mostly siloed off to some corner and you can have your own corner where you can have fun. Things only get problematic once you add amplification mechanisms like twitter and facebook feeds or reddit's frontpage.

This isn't true at all, and the reddit report following their ban wave is pretty clear about it; once areas that actively established a standard of violent or racist discourse as acceptable were banned, the volume of objectionable material across the site dropped.

4ch had a similar situation, where the culture on /b/, which was intentionally left as an explicitly unmoderated segment of the site, a silo, actively invaded other boards with violent, racist content.

It isn't that people sit in silos and do nothing otherwise - it's that the silos themselves cause people to believe their content is acceptable, then spread that shit everywhere.

Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by the8472 on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:52PM (#27861659)
I wrote "mostly siloed" not "perfectly siloed". This is no different from real life where your social sphere is not perfectly insulated from other social spheres. Perfectly siloed also means filter bubbles.
Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by sudosysgen on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:32PM (#27862678)
Go on 4chan right now and see how sucessful the attempts to silo racism and nazism to /b/ and /pol/ were sucessful. That is, not at all.
Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by the8472 on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:13PM (#27862847)
It varies, for example I would say /tg/ is quite peaceful and its inhabitants are kind.
Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by sudosysgen on Friday July 16, 2021 @10:23PM (#27863139)
I agree, /tg/ is really not so bad, but on the whole most boards got infested.
Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by rodgerd on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:40PM (#27862715)
Indeed - there's been research that backs up your position, but I'm afraid feels don't care about the facts.