A close ally of President Trump, Loomer has reversed her longtime criticism of Ukraine and is urging fellow conservatives to be wary of Moscow’s propaganda, which she blames for duping large swaths of the American right.
Banning an extremist doesn’t make that person less extreme. What it DOES do is close up the pipeline.
If you kick extremists off of large scale platforms, they won’t have large scale platforms to do their outreach and recruiting. Reducing their reach to obscure forums doesn’t make them dissapear, but it means random people who might lean that wat are much less likely to find them.
Stormfront will always be full of people who agree with stormfront. Bur their user base is a tiny fraction of what Twitter has. A nazi on twitter can reach billions of people and create more nazis. A nazi on Stormfront is just preaching to the choir.
Also, for the record, Laura got kicked off of everywhere because she was already an extremist.
Banning an extremist doesn’t make that person less extreme. What it DOES do is close up the pipeline.
If you kick extremists off of large scale platforms, they won’t have large scale platforms to do their outreach and recruiting. Reducing their reach to obscure forums doesn’t make them dissapear, but it means random people who might lean that wat are much less likely to find them.
Stormfront will always be full of people who agree with stormfront. Bur their user base is a tiny fraction of what Twitter has. A nazi on twitter can reach billions of people and create more nazis. A nazi on Stormfront is just preaching to the choir.
Also, for the record, Laura got kicked off of everywhere because she was already an extremist.