>Why did fail? He himself says social media bans were the reason.
Politician blames everything but his own politics for his failure to get elected. News at 11.
>For decades US Nazis and other loons were justifiably obscure. But the rise of the Internet, which enabled all sorts of connection, also enabled our country's worst to more easily connect, network, and recruit.
And yet the number of race riots and violent crime has fallen drastically since the 1980s, even with the rise of the Internet. LA hasn't had a repeat of 1992 yet. There is no Unabomber trying to spread their manifesto and the number of terror attacks in the Western world has subsided dramatically (there are no Troubles in Ireland, terrorists aren't taking over the Olympics, etc.), even though the knowledge to make explosives and sorts of manuals to commit those crimes are more available than ever before. OWS never got off the ground, even with Internet support; it's no surprise that more unpopular groups with far smaller membership aren't getting a huge benefit from it either.
Even if hate crimes are on the rise because the Internet exists, the correlation is small enough to be trivial because the factors contributing to the massive decline in crime utterly dominate them. Maybe we should be focused on keeping those going rather than jumping to conclusions.
Besides, if the Nazis come, they'll be voted in overwhelmingly due to an utter failure of economic conditions. Limits on what such a government can do that can't be easily sold by a society, like freedom of speech, are the best protection against such a thing should it ever actually happen.
Experts who study the topic make pretty clear that this is a problem. That you, an anonymous person on the internet, believe otherwise, is not much in the way of evidence.
It's also ridiculous that you conflate the 1992 riots (which were a spontaneous reaction to police violence) with the sort of things that Nazis would like to get up to. It's even more ridiculous that you ignore things like the Charlottesville car attack, the Isla Vista killings, or the Christchurch mosque shootings, all of which were by ideologues radicalized on the Internet. Ridiculous and telling.
You are missing a lot of understanding not just on the initial cause of the 92 riots but the effects including racial violence - which is exactly the sort of thing Nazis would get up to.
Can you quote some experts? And, preferably not some far right quack blaming twitter for him losing.
Likewise, you seem to be caught up in some epiphenomenon issues - you blame the internet for these attacks yet similar attacks and much worse ones preceeded the internet. Therefore deplatforming is a red herring, you're literally just using tragic attacks to push deplatforming messages you disagree with - and I don't like those messages either, but censorship isn't the answer.
Your handwaving on the Rodney King riots is unpersuasive. I already pointed people at an expert: David Neiwert, and in particular his book Alt-America. And your logic is very poor. By it, we could also prove that vaccines don't do anything, because clearly we had diseases both before and after their invention.
So as mentioned in my bio, I think you've used up your ration of my time. You'll have to carry on in your support of violent white supremacists without me.
Politician blames everything but his own politics for his failure to get elected. News at 11.
>For decades US Nazis and other loons were justifiably obscure. But the rise of the Internet, which enabled all sorts of connection, also enabled our country's worst to more easily connect, network, and recruit.
And yet the number of race riots and violent crime has fallen drastically since the 1980s, even with the rise of the Internet. LA hasn't had a repeat of 1992 yet. There is no Unabomber trying to spread their manifesto and the number of terror attacks in the Western world has subsided dramatically (there are no Troubles in Ireland, terrorists aren't taking over the Olympics, etc.), even though the knowledge to make explosives and sorts of manuals to commit those crimes are more available than ever before. OWS never got off the ground, even with Internet support; it's no surprise that more unpopular groups with far smaller membership aren't getting a huge benefit from it either.
Even if hate crimes are on the rise because the Internet exists, the correlation is small enough to be trivial because the factors contributing to the massive decline in crime utterly dominate them. Maybe we should be focused on keeping those going rather than jumping to conclusions.
Besides, if the Nazis come, they'll be voted in overwhelmingly due to an utter failure of economic conditions. Limits on what such a government can do that can't be easily sold by a society, like freedom of speech, are the best protection against such a thing should it ever actually happen.