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RE: What is so wrong with imigrants?

in #immigration5 years ago

although I cant help the feeling that the Internet fuels the formerly described groups by providing them with bubbles to self validate their hatred.

Yeah, this is definitely true. Especially with places like Facebook. If you look at Facebook's influence in other countries, it's been disastrous in some circumstances. The internet is a communication tool...and in some instances, it's resulted in people that want to spread hate to get a lot larger audience. I want to believe that this increased communication will have a net positive over time though. We just need to be careful about hate speech.

Sadly, it might be that we need to censor some speech, like that encouraging violence, or we might need to watch those that are using such speech. I honestly don't really want to. I don't think some government should be watching us for what we say, or censoring what we say...but we have seen violence as a result of such things. Just recently we actually had an ethnic cleansing as a direct result of such things in Myanmar. Myanmar has a horrible problem with hate speech on Facebook.

We have to do something about this...but it's hard to think about what to do.

Of course, such things have in the past often been the start of revolutions...though not the type that are often given a positive light. It perhaps should be considered if we should interfere with such things, because they have resulted in the changing of nations, even if often negatively.

If we do interfere, what should we do? Should we perhaps arrest people for that hate speech? Or have someone talk to them? Should we investigate such things to make sure they don't do anything violent? Do we want governments watching us for everything we say?

I'm sure most people have said something violent in the privacy of our own houses, about how we wish someone would die or something. I don't think that should necessarily be a crime if it's said on the internet.

Spreading lies is definitely not illegal... We could actually have AI push such things down a bit, but still allow it as speech...or watch people...but we do need to consider these things, as far as what we should do...because they often do result in loss of life in some circumstances...or at least hate...and occasionally violence...

There is a chance that we could be coming to a head of some sort where violence between groups might reach a tipping point, and it could even become some sort of civil war...and there's a chance we could possibly use AI to deal with that in some ways...but we need to consider what we should do, because it's a huge issue. We have better communication tools than ever before...which is good...but it also means that individuals with violent beliefs can find others with similar beliefs and create "echo chambers" of sorts, where everything negative is just enforced, rather than talked down.

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