Comment by mk89
9 years ago
I would never shut down such websites. Not due to Freedom of speech, but because now they will hide better. Most of these people login with their Facebook accounts to post hateful comments etc. I mean, seriously, all it takes for any law enforcement is to keep these people under control and that's it and sue them if it's the case. On the other hand, now we risk to create more and more parallel societies and secret groups. I understand that a private company can decide to terminate any user's account just "because they can". Completely fine with that.
They could have played this card better I think.
Hide better?
These aren't child pornographers trying to stay under the radar of the law. These are Nazis advocating for the murder of people who don't look like them, and trying to make their views mainstream.
Making them harder to for the vast majority of people to find is a major part of exactly how you shut a violent fascist movement down. And if you don't think a movement like this should be shut down, you're part of the problem.
> Making them harder to for the vast majority of people to find is a major part of exactly how you shut a violent fascist movement down.
Did you ever read about how Mussolini or Hitler gained their power? Do you really think that the governments back then didn't do anything to prevent what they were trying to start? That they didn't try to shut them down, etc.?
We are talking about a severe social problem that unfortunately ends up mostly with bulls* - white supremacy and all this cr. Why? Because nobody wants to listen to these people - what are the issues they have? I would say that most of the time, these people don't have a high income. Maybe they are unemployed, etc., maybe they don't feel secure/safe - do you actually know why they do these things? Some may be mentally ill, but hell, I don't want to believe that all of them are!
How many times does this have to happen again and again...? When will we ever learn? Rising walls and shutting people up are not good ways to build something - but only to destroy.
Listening to the issues they have? Sure. But they can talk about those issues in plenty of other forums.
The forum that's specifically about hatred doesn't add anything to the dialog.
What we want in order to avoid a repeat of Hitler's rise is for people looking for a place to vent and talk about real economic problems to find places to do so constructively, not places that say that the answer is "burn the n-----s!".
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