> Those communities will just be driven underground
So what? Those communities existed underground for decades and have only recently been pushed back into the mainstream. Being underground means it has less visibility to the mainstream and is thus less likely to influence people.
Theyre being pushed into the mainstream with an agenda to censor and shut them down. The goal isn't to give them less visibility, its to target and attack them. You have a 180 on the cause-effect here.
I made no comment with regard to cause and effect. The GP is stipulating that "those communities will just be driven underground", I am responding to that statement by stating that this is ok.
> Being underground means it has less visibility to the mainstream and is thus less likely to influence people.
But you have this backwards, the point of being pushed into the mainstream is to create crises by which to attack these platforms/sites.
They weren't made mainstream by the underground, they were made mainstream by news orgs looking to attack any venue or message their political opponents have as racist/murderous/etc.
They won't be driven underground to not influence people because the point is to make them boogie men for political points. This shooter used 8chan, therefore. He also used twitter and facebook and whatever else, but that isn't good for attacking people on their politics using the bodies of dead innocent people.
These communities were already underground and the news orgs didn't like it. Now there's a spotlight on them and you don't like it. The idea is to create an untenable position for those sites.
> they were made mainstream by news orgs looking to attack any venue or message their political opponents have as racist/murderous/etc
I don't get it. The shooter was, in fact, racist and murderous, as was the toxic community on 8chan he was radicalized in.
You're saying these people were only racist and murderous because the "news orgs" called them racist and murderous? They were actually racist and murderous! What should the "news orgs" say?
So what? Those communities existed underground for decades and have only recently been pushed back into the mainstream. Being underground means it has less visibility to the mainstream and is thus less likely to influence people.