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From a Kyiv bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia's war in Ukraine (www.pbs.org)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Loomer blamed her indoctrination on getting banned by American social media platforms, leading her to try Telegram, where Russian media is widely shared.

Much as I hate this walling shit stain, she isn't wrong here. All this quick "let's ban controversial or problematic users" led to the obvious outcome that these users went elsewhere, and elsewhere were propaganda places where they got indoctrinated even worse than they already were to begin with

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Don't worry she's wrong af.

    Storm front went online in 1990 and Liberty Net was created in 1984.

    Also she's a grown ass woman who is old enough (born 1993) to know that pre-social media verifiable sources exist.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    For a sec, I thought you were making a the boys reference and it threw me off.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I haven't seen the boys but if it's influenced online vernacular than maybe I am? If I did it was unintentional.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There's a character that was a "supe" back in the day, married to a Nazi scientist that gave her the powers. Then when the allies won, she came to America and came out as "liberty". Scandal hit, and she disappeared for decades, but came back, changing her identity to "storm front".

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Banning an extremist doesn't make that person less extreme. What it DOES do is close up the pipeline.

    If you kick extremists off of large scale platforms, they won't have large scale platforms to do their outreach and recruiting. Reducing their reach to obscure forums doesn't make them dissapear, but it means random people who might lean that wat are much less likely to find them.

    Stormfront will always be full of people who agree with stormfront. Bur their user base is a tiny fraction of what Twitter has. A nazi on twitter can reach billions of people and create more nazis. A nazi on Stormfront is just preaching to the choir.

    Also, for the record, Laura got kicked off of everywhere because she was already an extremist.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah that is a nice theory only it goes directly against what we've seen after years of doing this

    We banned all the people we didn't like (and be honest now, most bans are not because of extremism, they're because of opinions that slightly misalign with the moderators) and now we have people who were slightly more right than we liked going to other places where they can talk, and these places will be much more right than that person is, and the person becomes more radicalized

    You didn't close a pipeline, you actually created one

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