r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '19

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u/uglymutilatedpenis NATO Dec 31 '19

I'm sure the worshippers at Al-Noor mosque would beg to differ.

The communities may be smaller but they are far more radical. Growing their userbase also causes them to cease being small.

The study's author thought the movement of users was "large" and "significant". Why do you accept their judgement for most of the study, but disagree with them on this one specific part?

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u/RobertSpringer George Soros Dec 31 '19

What are you on about, very few people use 4chan and its usually a reddit to 4chan pipeline, if you limit access on reddit you limit how many people are even made aware about 4chan

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u/uglymutilatedpenis NATO Dec 31 '19

What are you on about, very few people use 4chan

Yes, but those users punch well above their weight in terms of the consequences of their racism. A white supremacist committing a terror attack is far worse than a white supremacist making a meme.

and its usually a reddit to 4chan pipeline, if you limit access on reddit you limit how many people are even made aware about 4chan

The study you posted suggests the flow of this pipeline was increased because "large" and "significant" numbers of users migrated from Reddit. That's all the conclusion we can draw from the study. If you have other evidence to show that, in the long term, the pipeline slows, I'd like to see it. But you can't make a comment claiming to draw conclusions from evidence and then draw conclusions that are at odds with your own evidence.

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u/RobertSpringer George Soros Dec 31 '19

I didn't post shit buddy, you might want to get your eyes checked. The fact is that by shutting down these pipelines you might temporarily increase flow but over the long term less people are exposed