Jack Yan (甄爵恩)All the more reason to shut these sites down, at least on a nation-by-nation basis. Here in Aotearoa, March 15, 2019 would have been the perfect reason, to honour the 51 martyrs. We could have been free of #Facebook—but Ardern used it herself and I guess that wasnʼt going to happen. But it would have been a precedent to be rid of #OnlyKlans now, especially with its real dangers, as Carole Cadwalladr points out.
Dan Seitz"We have a massive history of racism we've never truly dealt with, to the point where we let racists destroy our economy, but clearly the problem is
...SOCIAL MEDIA!"
Sarcasm towards the colonizers aside, I'm actually not worried about this for a couple of reasons but the most basic is this already happened here, in Charlottesville, in Portland, and in DC and it was shut down decisively every time with the conspirators caught and jailed, the violent punished, and those involved thoroughly shamed.
That isn't to say it can't happen again, or that vulnerable populations aren't at risk. Just that we're better prepared.
@Dseitz Our Parliament occupation took three weeks before we got the folks out, so we are really unprepared, and I don't think the UK was prepared, either. I think the US is far further along the line on understanding digital than we and the UK are.
Worth noting also was our racists/clods are more organized than yours. We also haven't had a Christchurch incident, which we in the US AREN'T prepared for.
@Dseitz Very true, ours exist more as organizations with stuck-up names, but the common-garden racist couldnʼt even organize eggs into cups.
@Dseitz I figured that these buggers are lazy, so if you make it hard for them to organize, then they will just be the grumpy arseholes at the pub moaning to others, but it doesn't go any further. Down here we are really unprepared as too many people in power have no idea how the digital world works.