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The paradox of tolerance comes into play. OP didn’t come up with some brand spankin’ new revelation.
Not quite, since the sub was t_d and it's like the reverse paradox of tolerance
Well, that’s just curating a space to favor one line of thinking. But I was saying that it’s not some natural law of the universe that “leftist” ideas only come about when the space is moderated whereas a space given completely unregulated speech would naturally turn the conversation right wing.
I read an article a long time ago about how a “free speech” space devolves from a balance representative of the population to almost exclusively hard right opinions. Believe it or not, hate speech is gross and off-putting to most people who haven’t swallowed whatever propaganda led the bigot to that opinion. In fact, hate speech is usually shocking enough to make a lot of people angry and uncomfortable. Especially at the grades and volumes you see in places like 4chan/8chan/etc. So people with varied opinions start to stop using a site that shows them things that are upsetting, finding a place where the content doesn’t disgust them. Voila, “free speech space” = hard right fascist bigot space.
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Well a good number of those were manually collapsed, not removed but also it's more like only right wing people want to stay in unmoderated shitholes
To your second point. It's the Nazi Bar Parable.
There's an odd irony about linking to twitter for the Nazi Bar Parable
To be fair, it was first posted on Twitter. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
To be specific:
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The paradox of tolerance comes into play. OP didn’t come up with some brand spankin’ new revelation.
Not quite, since the sub was t_d and it's like the reverse paradox of tolerance
Well, that’s just curating a space to favor one line of thinking. But I was saying that it’s not some natural law of the universe that “leftist” ideas only come about when the space is moderated whereas a space given completely unregulated speech would naturally turn the conversation right wing.
I read an article a long time ago about how a “free speech” space devolves from a balance representative of the population to almost exclusively hard right opinions. Believe it or not, hate speech is gross and off-putting to most people who haven’t swallowed whatever propaganda led the bigot to that opinion. In fact, hate speech is usually shocking enough to make a lot of people angry and uncomfortable. Especially at the grades and volumes you see in places like 4chan/8chan/etc. So people with varied opinions start to stop using a site that shows them things that are upsetting, finding a place where the content doesn’t disgust them. Voila, “free speech space” = hard right fascist bigot space.
Yes, all comments were collapsed to fit more on the screen and because the content of the comments is not important for what's being communicated by this screenshot.