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Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by 0xB31B1B »

jeromegv wrote: post #8
stormdennis wrote: post #3

If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.

It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. There was holocaust denier before Faceook, but their reach was much more limited. Remember that Facebook promotes groups and suggest you content that you're not following, so when holocaust deniers are part of the platform, some people with no exposure to the concept might start getting recomme…

Weird how the true evidence based comment is downvoted here. Regardless of your ideological priors the evidence we have shows deplatforming works to limit dis info spread. I have yet to hear an argument about why we should not deplatform holocaust deniers.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by mariodiana »

stormdennis wrote: post #3

If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.

For instance:

"[W]e recently banned anti-Semitic stereotypes about the collective power of Jews that often depicts them running the world or its major institutions." – Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) & Sheryl Sandberg (COO) of Facebook

Look, I point out the above primarily in jest. (There is irony there, no?) But the other point that I'm making is the above will not be missed by conspiracy theorists.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by ComputerGuru »

jeromegv wrote: post #8
stormdennis wrote: post #3

If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.

It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. There was holocaust denier before Faceook, but their reach was much more limited. Remember that Facebook promotes groups and suggest you content that you're not following, so when holocaust deniers are part of the platform, some people with no exposure to the concept might start getting recomme…

> It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence.

Would you mind linking to the studies you have in mind? In thinking about the likes of The_Donald and its current, banished form.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by matheusmoreira »

jeromegv wrote: post #8
stormdennis wrote: post #3

If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.

It's been shown that deplatforming and moving those nuts out of the mainstream social media channels reduce their influence. There was holocaust denier before Faceook, but their reach was much more limited. Remember that Facebook promotes groups and suggest you content that you're not following, so when holocaust deniers are part of the platform, some people with no exposure to the concept might start getting recomme…

It's also been shown repeatedly that censorship has harmful unintended effects. For some reason Facebook saw fit to write a post about this, thereby letting lots of people know about the very speech they're trying to remove. The Streisand effect is already at work.

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by donatj »

runarberg wrote: post #18
jimbob45 wrote: post #15

Censoring opposition has not once yielded positive results in the history of the world. My personal conspiracy theory is that policies like these are subversively being used to push HD since no one could possibly be stupid enough to think this would help.

Hasn’t it? Do you have any examples, or should I just take your word for it?

Are you completely blind to the countercultures that have popped up completely unchecked because of social media bans?

Re: Removing Holocaust Denial Content

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Post by rednerrus »

ignoramous wrote: post #14

Admirable move. I think Facebook (and all its properties), Twitter, and other hyper-connected social networks must show a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall, especially when those said groups are overtly and unmistakably intolerant themselves. This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speec…

Where do we draw the line? Is this a Pacifica kind of issue where we'll know it when we see it?
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