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Originally Posted by d3r14k
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Self censorship will never be enough. People will always create and say whatever they want to convey, joke or no. You also can't regulate by the platform. Users will very quickly jump ship and choose an unregulated avenue or create a new one.
Are memes really the problem here? I read about this dude a bit over lunch and while I'm probably still pretty uninformed (comparatively), I feel like he was an angry dude who used memes as a means of conveyance, because he knew it would be effective to spread. This is the same for the live stream he released. I was looking this up to try to research how much of an insensitive prick I was accidentally being earler and what was the #1 search related to this?
Watch mosque shooting livestream
What this guy did was horrible, but he certainly knew the best way for exposure. My point is, the racist memes are just a symptom of a much deeper rooted problem. Memes aren't the problem themselves. It's like if newspapers had a bunch of racist articles and everyone proclaimed newspapers were a racist institution. No, newspapers were just the vehicle for that particular racist message.
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you're wrong in that regulating by platform won't work. deplatforming works, and they know it. it's why they push so hard for "DEBATE ME IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS" because if they get their message out to a large enough audience, it does not matter how well you debate it or try to shoot it down, the message is there. it's how propaganda works.
watch a few minutes of
this video from this timestamp. then replace "today is wednesday" with "subscribe to pewdiepie" and you'll hopefully realize how insidious this is.