Shocking News: Communication Tools Don't Discriminate
from the who-knew? dept
In response to an article about how "Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups" I was tempted to write an entire post, mimicking the original, except changing every instance of "hate" to something positive. Yes, blogs and social networks can and are being used by hate groups. But they're also being used to combat ignorance and hate. They're just communication tools, and the fact that hate groups use them (as well as anti-ignorance groups) is hardly surprising. But rather than creating some moral panic about hate groups using these tools, why not encourage more people to use such tools to combat ignorance and hate? Instead, we get a bunch of supposed "experts" talking about how these uses need to be shut down. That does nothing productive. It just makes the hate group members feel even more angry and persecuted, which just fuels the hate. The solution is to educate -- and (oh, look at that!) web 2.0 provides some pretty good tools for spreading knowledge and fighting ignorance.
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The hammer and chisel Michelangelo used to create The David could also be used to destroy it.
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True, we in Europe are no better, but we don't spend our time worshipping a 1st amendment then try to violate it because our feelings were hurt.
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The next step
I seem to remember those old videos where the guy in the wight robe and hood was yelling into a bullhorn to try and convince some people that other people were inferior.
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Piece Love and understanding,
On a serious note we only need to disable information dissemination tools if it protects the children.
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Re: Piece Love and understanding,
Please tell me you're still kidding.
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hate speech, peace speech, its mostly over run with just plain crap.
"Web 2.0 - We have allowed you to generate the content and this is what you have produced. We are going back to Web 1.0."
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Used for hatespeech
Riiiigggghhhhttt.
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hate em niggs
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