Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead

dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit, youtube, and tiktok are quickly becoming the new, “video games cause violence” cry from conservatives. Hell you see people here claiming tiktok is going to make all the kids have 2 second attention spans. It’s all just scapegoats for other systematic failures in culture, education, and social saftey nets, but those are hard to fix. Easier to just blame the platform and not make any real changes.

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  • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s not republicans that are suing over this…

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    • Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair enough! I should’ve said, and have corrected it to, reactionaries.

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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably because it’s Republicans making the content and doing the shootings.

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      • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s all just scapegoats for other systematic failures in culture, education, and social saftey nets, but those are hard to fix. Easier to just blame the platform and not make any real changes.

    You mean like blaming guns?

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    • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not at all like blaming guns. A gun is a tool used to cause death. The other things are all being claimed as vectors to cause someone to use a gun to cause death. If someone didn’t have easy access to a gun it would be much harder to go on a killing spree regardless of how radicalized they are.

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      • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        sure, like renting a moving truck. or using box cutters to take over an airplane. regardless of how radicalized they are. keep drinking the kool aid.

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• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There can be two problems.

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  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The two problems can have disproportionate sizes. Drumming up hysteria about reddit and yt is basically a distraction when you have people in public life endorsing the fringe ideas floating on these platforms.

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s been the Republican playbook for decades. Get the populace riled up about Satan or Gays or AIDS or now trans people and you can rob them blind while saying it was them.

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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There can also be two solutions.

      Did you want to personally rubber stamp each of them?

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      • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes.

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• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At the very least, they shouldn’t be promoting this content. There’s a difference between hosting content and actively suggesting it to users.

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