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> So you think people who engaged in fringe ideologies will be slowed down by having likeminded people banned and deplatformed from popular social media and chan forums?

Yep!

And, more importantly, by making it even marginally harder to find this shit online, we can dramatically decrease the number of people who get exposed to, and radicalized by, it.




This is assuming it's not still on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and whatever other chans are left.


This is allowing perfection to be the enemy of the good. It's not necessary for an action to completely solve a problem to make it worth doing, it's OK if the action just helps.




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