Deplatforming works individually. Milo, who? Deplatforming works systemically? Dunno. What about isolating collectively? Like, if we all blocked Dinesh D'Souza -- tearing him out of the fabric that is our social attention -- would he wither? Does he need conflict to persist?
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Replying to @Aelkus
Meh. Maybe. And perhaps he's not a great example. But deplatforming certainly does increase costs to marketing that type of parasitic ploy. It's entirely reasonable to think it increases failure probability to individuals and small-moderate entities.
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Replying to @generativist @Aelkus
It's also not at all the point to me. The systemic effects seem pretty terrible, even in terms of "this is effectively a NOOP that you spend treasure on to execute when looked at from a systemic perspective." It just falls to the next asshole in line, so...
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Replying to @generativist @Aelkus
(Have you actaully seen papers on this? I'm thinking about spending the $$$$$ on Alexa to look at it. Just a descriptive event analysis even. Like, the traffic sources shift I've looked at for, say, infowars, are pretty interesting.)
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Because really, my summation is, 1. Deplatforming works on individuals in the adversary happy feels sense. 2. Deplatforming doesn't work systemically and misspends resources. 3. Systemic / cheap signal attenuation may change incentives while bleeding edgelord resources instead.
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