Racial slurs and epithets seem to be fine, talk about killing rich people though and you get banned real fast.
2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.
Submitted 6 months ago by Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Shadywack@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Diva@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yeah this had been my observation too
ravhall@discuss.online 6 months ago
Even on Lemmy.
5in1k@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I got banned from Reddit for saying some Taliban in a video should die. Not in some frothing for violence way either.
LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They forgot Reddit. Reddit is full of open racism all the time.
klemptor@startrek.website 6 months ago
Yeah also 4chan
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The worst place I’ve seen racism is the YouTube comment section of police bodycam videos. I swear the >50% of the videos will be of white people but whenever it isn’t the comments are filled with racist stuff.
Infact I went to a bodycam YouTube channel and click on the first one from an African American male and picked out some comments sorting by newest. Here are some examples:
“always the same breed” (11hr ago)
“Pew Pew. just saying.”(13hr ago)
"Bet they got an OR bond cause of “racism” "(51 minutes ago)This video is 2 months old.
And this comedy:
“Your Sargent don’t want you arresting [censored n-word]Because the crime stats shows how they ruin and destroy your country USA [fist emoji] [American flag emoji]
Government don’t want Americans to realise how immigrants come to America [American flag emoji] to commit crime”
which… isn’t even true, Immigrants have been about equal or even lower with the White US-Born population
Anyways, what I find the most disturbing about the YouTube comments is that it’s so surface level compared to something like 4chan or other obscure forums. they’re shouting their racism to everyone who will listen
LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 6 months ago
4chan is a flaming trash heap
WereCat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TIL 1/3 of people don’t have Internet access
elliot_crane@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know, I’m online quite a bit and wouldn’t say I see hate speech “often” at all. Then again, all of my socials are on the fediverse except for snapchat (yeah I know snap is a shit company - I use it to send pictures of food to a couple close friends), so there’s probably a bit of curation on my part.
WereCat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
asking such an open ended question doesn’t mean much when nowadays, more and more people consider “anything I don’t agree with” to be hate speech.
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Bigot. Why do you hate questions so much?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ah yes, the classic.
“Could I have terrible bigoted opinions? No, it’s the children who are just too sensitive nowadays. :^(”
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m firmly in the “not very often” camp, and I think it’s because I don’t use any of the services mentioned, and I generally avoid the comment sections of most websites.
If you’re seeing a lot of hate speech, maybe consider not visiting sites where you see hate speech? Ideally we’d solve the root problem, but I’m worried a lot of people are just feeding the trolls, which creates a positive hate speech feedback loop.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It really is about values and boundary setting. If you experience hate or toxicity irl or online you leave. If you choose to stay then your priority isn’t your well being.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 months ago
“Seeing lots of hate speech? Have you tried not using the most popular websites where all your friends are?”
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Alternative perspective: encourage your friends to switch to different platforms. Here’s a video by Naomi Brockwell about how to do that. This is more from a privacy perspective, but it can work for switching to other platforms as well.
You don’t have to give up your friends to avoid bad platforms, you can eat your cake and have it too.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 months ago
18% in X? Hahahaha
ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I feel like the only people left on X are the people who don’t think their hate speech is hate speech…
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
can relate, i am the hate speech
Carvex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t use the internet
Dot@feddit.org 6 months ago
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spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or another way of putting it, 1 in 3 people don’t recognize hate speech online.
merde@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
or 1 in 3 aren’t on Xitter
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jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Great list of websites to never visit 👍
I get enough hate-speech during on-line video games. By not using any of those apps, I successfully save myself from multitudes more, while also foregoing any potentially addictive status-seeking site-based-compulsions. I used to play Clash of Clans on my phone because it was a good way to waste a couple minutes while taking a shit. I quit when I began to play too much. I feel like Facebook, twitter, instagram, they’re all just sites to waste time on. Which begs the question, why waste time on them at all? Why waste time?
I know not every moment can be spent fruitfully, but when something you do to waste a bit of time in between/during mundane tasks becomes something that now demands attention outside of that, then it’s time to stop wasting time on it.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Huh, I use zero of those websites, and haven’t for something like 15 years. And as it turns out, I see very little hate speech. I wonder if those two things are related…
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ounce of prevention worth a pound of not being subjected to an endless stream of racist hate-filled trolls!
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t know how the question was phrased, but remember, many people find a comment that disagrees with them or presents a fact they don’t like to be “hate”.
Rin@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m of the opinion that you should laugh at racists or people who you consider speak “hate” speech online. Someone calls you something, laugh at them. They’re pathetic. Words don’t hurt lmao. If they were a decent person, they would have never said anything like it. Block them, report them and move on. I have never understood why this is such a big issue and i get called slurs on a daily basis lmao
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I guess the people polled don’t play multiplayer video games if “other” is only 6%.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 6 months ago
33% seems high for “people who are apparently barely ever online”
thisguy1092@lemmy.world 6 months ago
….so?
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Spoken like a true non-minority
thisguy1092@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More like who doesn’t lol
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Spoken like a perpetual victim
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This amount actually seems low.
If the survey is reflective of real world percentages. Women are close to half of all people. White men are 31% of the US population. Assuming some of them aren’t straight men or have disabilities, thats a pretty large possibilities of options that someone can fling hate at.
To be clear, straight white men can also experience hate. I don’t want to discredit them. It just seems to me that most of the hate is directed at other identity groups, so I’m using it to make a point.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I love being part of other!
paddirn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And that last 1/3rd person is the one actually spewing it.
underwire212@lemm.ee 6 months ago
WhatsApp? Isn’t that just like, a messenger? Would think you’d want better friends if you’re encountering hate speech in your group chats haha
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 months ago
There are public chats similar to Facebook groups, for example for local communities.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And the other third is committing or just unaware of it. I encounter it several times a week and virtually no platform cares about most of it. Although I’m pleasantly surprised to almost never see it in my communities on Lemmy.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
2 in 3 people are the ones doing it
PopShark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I feel like Instagram should be higher I see a lot of shit talk on there
digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
The bar chart might be more useful if they weighted the source with its number of users. Facebook isn’t 7 times more hateful than Telegram. It has around 3.5 times as many users - but also the two are used very differently. I use Telegram, but only as a free messaging platform for automated alerts.
Then there’s the algorithms, which tend to feed you what you engage with and from those connections you’ve made on it. The exception recently is X which has a very strong political bias and has turned into something that pushes hate very strongly.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the same problem often encountered when reporting crime statistics. New York City, which has almost 9,000,000 residents, has a lot of reported crimes. However, when measured against the number of people who live there, it is, statistically, one of the safest cities in the country.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
As usual, a statistic is made much more useful when looking at as per capita.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have to use Facebook daily because of family, and I don’t think Zucc cares about hate speech anymore. But call a right wing chud a sadistic psychopath, you get a 3 day ban for bullying.