Well, that’s just curating a space to favor one line of thinking. But I was saying that it’s not some natural law of the universe that “leftist” ideas only come about when the space is moderated whereas a space given completely unregulated speech would naturally turn the conversation right wing.
I read an article a long time ago about how a “free speech” space devolves from a balance representative of the population to almost exclusively hard right opinions. Believe it or not, hate speech is gross and off-putting to most people who haven’t swallowed whatever propaganda led the bigot to that opinion. In fact, hate speech is usually shocking enough to make a lot of people angry and uncomfortable. Especially at the grades and volumes you see in places like 4chan/8chan/etc. So people with varied opinions start to stop using a site that shows them things that are upsetting, finding a place where the content doesn’t disgust them. Voila, “free speech space” = hard right fascist bigot space.
Well, that’s just curating a space to favor one line of thinking. But I was saying that it’s not some natural law of the universe that “leftist” ideas only come about when the space is moderated whereas a space given completely unregulated speech would naturally turn the conversation right wing.
I read an article a long time ago about how a “free speech” space devolves from a balance representative of the population to almost exclusively hard right opinions. Believe it or not, hate speech is gross and off-putting to most people who haven’t swallowed whatever propaganda led the bigot to that opinion. In fact, hate speech is usually shocking enough to make a lot of people angry and uncomfortable. Especially at the grades and volumes you see in places like 4chan/8chan/etc. So people with varied opinions start to stop using a site that shows them things that are upsetting, finding a place where the content doesn’t disgust them. Voila, “free speech space” = hard right fascist bigot space.