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by paraditedc 2795 days ago
I have been following the issue of Internet polarization since 2014 [1], and I propose two different ways to mediate the situation on a societal level:

- Have a neutral platform to facilitate discourse and mutual understanding. This is hard as it requires a largely informed populace.

- Complete segregation of groups having different opinions. This proves to be also hard because of incidents like this.

[1] https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/

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What if, instead of either of these, we made it clear as a society that advocating violence against or the elimination of a class of people is unacceptable and we gave no venue for that conversation whatsoever?