> But the fight has to be fought at the margins, against the most extreme examples first.
This is getting off topic but I disagree with this. Trump's comments and right wing news incited an insurrection. I think "fighting at the margins" is probably moot and really we should be tackling this where it broadly affects everyone. Isn't that how most policy and social phenomena are dealt with?
> we should be tackling this where it broadly affects everyone.
Can you cite an example of what you mean? There's nothing being espoused that affects "everyone" unless you're excluding all persons who don't meet your criteria for personhood. Opposed viewpoints are relative extremes to each other, so measuring by majorities is how this typically get addressed in society. Legislation isn't a benevolent, objective, or unbiased action.
KF is a fringe platform of marginal(ized) views. So was the Daily Stormr. Will no one rid us of these turbulent priests?[1] (It got some disagree-votes, but thanks for getting the point.)
I probably should have said broadly affects people* rather than "everyone".
For example, the lack of moderation on Facebook has probably been a factor in thousands or tens of thousands of suicides. Just from the fact there are a billion+ Facebook users and people are horrible to each other.
There's a case at the moment in the UK of a 14 year old girl who killed herself over abuse over social media (mainly Facebook).
Since I can't edit, here's a source for Moderates in US politics "(1) being a large proportion of the public, (2) having views that are not simply random or incoherent, and (3) appearing to be central to electoral change, as they are highly responsive to candidate ideology, voting against extreme candidates." Seems to support "the fight is in the margins" rather than change being organic, rational, or benevolent.
On social suicides, is moderation more or less a factor than the dehumanization caused by over-broad content policies on large social forums (ie- the attrition of personal communities like early tumblr and livejournal after being consumed by large companies who might try to balance the societal cost of some people dying against opex for moderation, for instance). It seems related to what happens to prisons and with zero tolerance in schools- the costs of litigation and liability driving perverse outcomes in populations due to intolerance of real difference or diversity.
This is getting off topic but I disagree with this. Trump's comments and right wing news incited an insurrection. I think "fighting at the margins" is probably moot and really we should be tackling this where it broadly affects everyone. Isn't that how most policy and social phenomena are dealt with?