Sad that we have to do this. Trump supporters have been consistently pigeonholed by big tech censorship.
This usually decays into a right mess as is outlined.
This is nothing to do with tech. It’s closer to burning witches who are undesirable in your community. It makes your community broken.
For this Jan 6th march, I saw many people on right wing websites saying they wanted to fight BLM/ANTIFA people and give them the beat down basically.
We’re a tribal species. This just allows us to execute our base instincts quicker.
It’s stupid really.
On politics I refuse to align with any ideology, only policies. There’s no us and them argument then, just the merit of the policy to consider.
Sometimes letting people vent is a good idea. They tend not to torch neighborhoods.
If you think there is a mass that will get influenced and radicalized, it is probably only due to legislators and companies trying to police people into a narrow corridor of opinions.
The issue here again isn’t technology but taking ideas as verbatim and lack of critical reasoning. This ultimately leads to people seeking kinship with idiots and frauds rather than dismantling their ideas carefully and ridiculing them.
The issue is as always: education. Education is certainly promoted by the tech sector.
I’m not defending them here for reference, merely suggesting that the issues are human and transcend the platform.