> This means Parler's user demographic will become more and more full of fringe radical elements that scare off the silent majority less radical crowd.
The only way to contain fringe elements is to allow them to identify themselves and be prepared when they demonstrate intent to perform harmful acts (“terrorism”). The polite silent majority will go home, the extremist minority will go to prison if they overstep legal boundaries.
Nope, you’re spot on. Diversions are critical for folks who might be on the path to radicalization, who can be reasoned with, who can critically think, and who can be brought back from the edge. Not everyone is a lost cause, and the effort must be put forth collectively.
Or not even radicalized, just massively misinformed.
It seems like people denying a problem exists is creating massive inertia against solutions to even the most apparent and emotionally salient problems (mass shootings, COVID, etc).
Yes, and all this de-platforming is only going to deepen divisions, I fear. Is there any real reason for doing so, since there is always provisions to deal with people who break laws.
Are these companies acting preemptively from fear of being later assigned culpability?
There are systemic problems in society today which can be exploited to amplify the problems of fringe groups. This is how we got trump. So what do we do?
The only way to contain fringe elements is to allow them to identify themselves and be prepared when they demonstrate intent to perform harmful acts (“terrorism”). The polite silent majority will go home, the extremist minority will go to prison if they overstep legal boundaries.