• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago

    When you ban people from a website, they just move to another place, they are not stupid it’s pretty easy to create websites. It’s purely optical,

    you are literally describing an event that induces the sort of entropy we’re talking about here–necessarily when you ban a community of Nazis or something and they have to go somewhere else, not everybody moves to the next place (and those people diffuse back into the general population), which has a deradicalizing effect on them overall because they’re not just stewing in a cauldron of other people who reinforce their beliefs