Better to try and understand the complex psycho-social-economic factors that lead to this situation. Without a clear understanding of how a problem came to be, how can it be fixed?
"We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage-by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/C******n "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage"[0].
I expect if Parler et. al. took similar stances against hate speech and open calls to violence, they would see similar results.
> Without a clear understanding of how a problem came to be, how can it be fixed?
You can't test a treatment without an intervention.
edit: fixed asterisks.
I haven’t really looked into those platforms, but they’re new enough that they probably don’t have the tooling to do any of that. It took fb and Twitter years to build that.
> Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage.
Reddit has become a Political echo chamber, I was pretty active in libertarian and a few other political subreddits years ago, i no longer am because it is just a Authoritarian left wing echo chamber, even the so call "conservative" and "libertarian" subreddits
My political views have not changed simply because I am not longer politically active in reddit, but to you that is "win"
It is not, it just makes it seem that way because your little corner of the internet is now a safe space free of any dissenting thought, in reality the cultural wedge is only getting larger
Triage applies.
As an American I hope it doesn't come to that. I fear we'll end up experiencing something like the Troubles. Low grade civil war.
Perhaps I am too cynical, but at this point I would not be surprised if the Democrats stoke tensions for short-term gains, like the Republicans before them. I hope this does not come to pass, because surely this fanning of the flames would end with all of us burned.