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by magissima 2624 days ago
And yet I've barely heard a peep about Alex Jones since he was deplatformed. It seems to have worked pretty well there.
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Hasn't stopped him, just because you don't see him on your timeline, or the mainstream platforms don't mean he's gone away or changed. Just shifted into a conformation bubble with others and with that, less likely to encounter any debate of their mentalities and ideas and as such, enforcing them in their own minds.

This in a way prevents opposing minded people challenging them in debate and sweeping problems under a carpet don't solve the problems. It just shifts it until it grows large enough that the carpet is just not big enough anymore.

However, being exposed to such opposing views can become distressing and whilst sometimes you may be in the mood to debate them, other times you are not. So IMHO putting better controls in the hands of the users, sure can default to settings suitable for children. But banning is not the way in the end. Like films, you have ratings, today we can and should have a more granular rating system akin to dating app choices and give the users the power to do there own censoring above and beyond the laws of the land.

But for many a default of not having to see the ugly sides of life and dealing with those issues, does seem to be a choice many make, albeit for various reasons.

Maybe one day we will all walk around with augmented reality goggles and filter out everything we don't like. But then, just because you can't see a problem - don't mean it's still not a problem. Which is kinda the crux of many problems in the World today.