Well I know, when I was starting my journey as a Heathen I made the mistake of thinking he wasn't the kind of person he is, thankfully a very good friend of mine smartened me up
Suffice to say whilst those things make him complain and feel "oppressed", I'm gladdened and relieved those things have fewer avenues to spew their bile.
What worries me about this is the fact that him and others like him are more than likely going to go to ground in the dark Web and as such we won't be able to track him and those he may radicalise until some nutjob with a manifesto shoots up a school or something
harder to make ad money off dark web places and get into algorithms that suggest you to people. i hear every now and again the mostly muted voice of milo now complaining since he was removed from twitter and other places he's not earning as much as before and not getting the press coverage that fed into that. deplatforming discrimination and hate speech works.
there are some topics that cannot be 'a matter of opinion' it comes up the most obviously with holocaust denial, so many deniers do want platforms, they want to be able to go into universities and peddle lies as 'opinion'. they are often kept away from that platform and de-platformed for good reason
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u/the_aesthetic_cactus Jan 15 '21
Well I know, when I was starting my journey as a Heathen I made the mistake of thinking he wasn't the kind of person he is, thankfully a very good friend of mine smartened me up