I'm not sure if this is the right approach. By doing such things, I think they actually are helping the white supremacists. They won't think they did something wrong there, they think they sold legitimate shirts just like Gay Pride(or whatever) and got shutdown for their opinion, which confirms their idiology/conspiracy theories/hate.
I think the answer for alt right is more debate / speech /facts, but e.g. instead in germany they are just passing new laws for censoring facebook and violators even got search warrants. Again wrong way imo, deleting their Facebook post doesn't equal changing their opinion, it rather confirms their idiology.
Is anybody else worried that this "Shut off from the world" approach might not solve the problem at its root?
I'd worry that it wouldn't resolve the underlying tension but would only up the anger and cause them to retaliate in the only form they can - violence.
Just a curious question: is Apple applying the same standard and blocking also black supremacist and black nationalist (and say Islamacist stuff that is clearly anti-others) with the same vigour as it blocks white supremacists and neo-Nazis?
A double standard in this matter would send a terrible message.
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[ 32.2 ms ] story [ 29.9 ms ] threadI think the answer for alt right is more debate / speech /facts, but e.g. instead in germany they are just passing new laws for censoring facebook and violators even got search warrants. Again wrong way imo, deleting their Facebook post doesn't equal changing their opinion, it rather confirms their idiology.
I'd worry that it wouldn't resolve the underlying tension but would only up the anger and cause them to retaliate in the only form they can - violence.
A double standard in this matter would send a terrible message.