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by TeaDrunk 1993 days ago
Deplatforming from what I understand works in deradicalization at the population level. That is, if you want a smaller population of radicals, you deplatform them. If you want less radical behavior, you deplatform them.

(NOTE: the following paper also covers what happens to the radicals who remain radicals post-deplatforming, which is super interesting.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231209220...

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This worked against ISIS and I didn't see anyone complaining about free speech then.
Exactly. They have no right to the megaphone that social media offers.

Let them build their own websites and find their own audiences.

This is quarantining of ideological violence.