A Facebook employee confirmed to me on background that the Alek Minassian Facebook post referencing 4chan and "The Incel Rebellion" is real:pic.twitter.com/gdydMBOE0l
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A Facebook employee confirmed to me on background that the Alek Minassian Facebook post referencing 4chan and "The Incel Rebellion" is real:pic.twitter.com/gdydMBOE0l
To the unfamiliar, the word “Incel” stands for “involuntary celibate,” which is an online community of men who are sexually frustrated and often channel that frustration into anti-woman hate.
Reddit removed the Incel community from its website last year after updating its policy to ban glorification and incitement of violence. The chat board frequently advocated for sexual violence and hate against women.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/reddit-incel-involuntary-celibate-men-ban …
I think these guys are scum. I also think that banning a group and alienating a group that already feels alienated is just going to lead to more nonsense like this from happening.
Maybe, but what else can they do? Let these guys come together online and stoke each other’s misogyny?
I know what you're saying, but if the majority of these idiots use groups like these as outlets (rightly or wrongly) what are they going to do with their misplaced rage if the groups start disappearing? Maybe talking about these violent acts stop some from actually doing them.
Maybe the losers will go outside. Pick up a hobby
Hopefully. But nothing was stopping them from doing that before.
They had a toxic safe space that made them worse and validated their negative viewpoints. They still have a safe space because Reddit has not eliminated the copycat site
Exactly, if you remove the echo chamber of hateful misogyny, sure, maybe some of them will just find another online incel forum, but maybe some of them will move on to something else.
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