cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    You have klan members in Congress, supreme court, churches and every police department, but sure, YT and Reddit are the problem.

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        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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      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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      Reddit, youtube, and tiktok are quickly becoming the new, “video games cause violence” cry from reactionaries. 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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          Fair enough! I should’ve said, and have corrected it to, reactionaries.

          Also I didn’t really mean it in as US centric way hence saying conservatives rather than Republicans. More of the philosophy of conservativism instead of the political oriented conservatives. You know, trying to maintain old institutions at all costs, automatically assuming new institutions are not as good, only finding faults in new methods/institutions while ignoring the faults with the old, etc.

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        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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          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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            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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              You come at me with a box cutter and I’ll defend myself with a rifle and let’s see which one is more dangerous.

              I’m fine with people renting box trucks and using knives in mass murder attempts, because statistically those attempts are far less successful than those with guns.

              Shit one QAnon lunatic tried to ram a hospital ship with a train. Fuck em. Let em fail.