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by mundo 3325 days ago
> who's gonna switch to this?

Scott Alexander put it very well, in describing the right-leaning Reddit clone voat.co, and its influx of new users after Reddit purged some subs:

"The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong."

(from http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/04/getting-high-on-your-ow...)

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Are there libertarian-hunts as well?
unintentionally, since any outspoken libertarians tend to get caught in the crossfire of these witch-hunts as well, due to the whole debate turning into a simplified 'us vs them' situation.