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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by hackerlight on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:36AM (#32884462)
Social media has dramatically magnified these preexisting 'material contradictions' to America's sociolegal conception of free speech. The absurdities are becoming larger and larger and cracks are showing. Stochastic terrorist there. Fascist elected here. 500k anti-vaxxer deaths over there. What will come first, will the dam finally break in the form of society collapsing into conspiracy driven dictatorship, or will the ideologues realize that their constructs can't cope with the modern world?
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by brightball on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:46PM (#32889030)
What is a stochastic terrorist?
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by detaro on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:00PM (#32889182)
"Stochastic terrorism" is the concept that a media campaign with large enough reach that vilifies and dehumanizes a target group will cause a rise in attacks against them, without any central planning who is attacking whom when, but rather because it pushes random (hence "stochastic") at-risk people to commit random attacks.
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by galaxyLogic on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:13PM (#32889321)
A good and clear explanation. God Damn the Pusherman. Would you say that this is what happened on January 6th?
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by hackerlight on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:58PM (#32889159)
A perpetrator of stochastic terrorism. In this context, a lone wolf who is radicalized online.
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