if it's not there it will only be somewhere else
Yeah, sure. I get what you’re saying. I get knowing your enemy. But there’s also the argument that one POS racist, homophobic misogynist screaming into the void alone might eventually quieten down, or else perhaps join in discourse with some other non-POS racist homophobic misogynists, who may even enlighten them. Allowing a group of them to yell at each other back-and-forth and egg each other on, within the self-congratulatory infinite feedback loop of other likeminded dickheads certainly isn’t helping them or anybody else. It’s simply amplifying a problem that, of course, has always been there and always existed.
But amplification breeds escalation.
And, okay, sure, let them have a place to go be POS with other POS’s. But why do you or I or anyone need to go look at pictures of bikes there?
I just don’t get it. I don’t back it. And I won’t ever.
Every single click on a place like that is currency and support for the worst fractions of it to continue.
That I think we’d be better off without all forms of social media I’m more than happy to debate; I can see the positives, I can see the appeal. The likes of 4Chan and it’s ilk: literally no one is better off thanks to it, and even if somehow they were, it still wouldn’t be worth the trade-off.
This isn’t hypothetical. It’s not subjective. These are places that are encouraging and causing real problems and real harm, in the real world.
Go tell a mother who lost their kid in a school shooting that was actively encouraged on a place like that that you only frequent it to look at the nice bikes.