Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
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The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    10 months ago

    If a bunch of “ironic” racists start using a symbol as a “joke” and one of them flashes it after murdering 50 people because of their religion, then it’s officially a hate symbol.

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      English
      54·
      10 months ago

      Only if you want it to. For 99.99% of the population the okay sign is still the okay sign.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s a Poe’s Law kind of situation. Some people were saying dumb things about the OK sign because they were pretending to be idiots. Actual idiots see it and start doing it because they’re actual white supremacists doing a sign they heard about from the internet to indicate their affiliation.