Comment by sealeck
4 years ago
Keeping them on the service is also making a decision - that they don't think they're terrible enough to remove them.
4 years ago
Keeping them on the service is also making a decision - that they don't think they're terrible enough to remove them.
Correct. There is a status quo bias that infects people's thinking, as if deciding not to deplatform somebody isn't itself a decision. Similar fallacy that people bring to the Trolley Problem which can maximize the number of dead people.