[himinlomax]

I have a problem with people who believe this propaganda had any net effect, except for railing up some people (which probably was the intent.)

[simlevesque]

How can you say that when there are hundreds of confirmed cases of ISIS radicalizing people from the internet ? Why do you have a problem believing that ?

[himinlomax]

Are there? Was it through Twitter? In all likelihood what you're talking about is some random semi-private forum that's going to fly under the radar anyway. And you have that big, huge number: hundreds, not mere dozens, hundreds! My oh my, that's a scary army right there. How many suicide bombers have the harassment by ISrael of the illegally occupied territories population created?

And with this joke of an army is good enough to kill free speech on the net. That's almost as tragically comical as the floatsam in the Gulf of Tonkin that caused millions of deaths, but it's happening right now.

[eightysixfour]

Yes, and yes. You can find numerous examples where Twitter in particular was the method of recruitment. Here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/northern-va-teen-...

[vladTheInhaler]

Language is how we construct our shared reality. When you let language like this go unchallenged, it gives legitimacy to the worldview it endorses.

[himinlomax]

This argument for censorship is as pretentious as it's vacuous.

[vladTheInhaler]

I dunno, calling something pretentious and vacuous with no other details is pretty much the most vacuous argument I can think of.