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> I think this is the biggest argument against deplatforming: it actually makes them cool.

The thing that mystifies me is that when parents get in on something it usually nukes the coolness factor, but the far right has an overwhelming supply of 50+ year olds on just about every platform and this has had no impact on its rise in popularity among the teens and twenty-somethings.




One thing the Internet has at least weakened is age stratification in culture, for the simple reason that it's hard to tell how old people are online.

Also I'm not talking so much about Fox News right wingers. I'm talking about the 4chan /pol stuff. The stuff Fox provides is the radio-safe edit.


Those goddamn 13 year old Estonians are at it again! https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organis...


Yup. Teenage edgelords can create international movements now.


That's because Boomer Humor is actually really funny when you get the unsanitized version. The lame Boomer jokes are just the ones that HR approves of.




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