{"id":110386,"date":"2016-12-11T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110386"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T02:10:21","slug":"boston-globe-should-twitter-ban-the-alt-right-the-case-for-online-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110386","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe: Should Twitter ban the alt-right? The case for online censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Scharfenberg writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nJ.M. Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague who wrote the report, says social media give extremists some powerful tools for growth: anonymity and an easy way to seek out people with similar interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the real danger,\u201d he said in a recent interview. \u201cIf you were a radical Druid in 1950 living in Peoria, Illinois, you could go your whole life without ever meeting anybody who shared your views. Now if you\u2019re that same person, you get online, and within an hour you can be following a hundred other radical Druids. And in two or three weeks, you can all be getting together to plant trees.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an essay titled \u201cThe Social Apocalypse: A Forecast,\u201d Berger notes that ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, has become a globally disruptive force even though its members number only in the tens of thousands. He warns that a network of 1 million, a tiny sliver of the world\u2019s population, could \u201cwreak unimaginable havoc.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout meaningful controls,\u201d he adds, \u201cwe will see millions of people organize themselves according to racial, class, or religious identity in defiance of a generation of progress toward pluralism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It strikes me that people naturally organize themselves according to racial, class or religious identity. The only widespread exception to that was in dominantly Anglo countries. By destroying WASP dominance, Jews and company made organization along racial and religious identity inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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