ah, our old friends from The Atlantic….
They don't exactly like us but grudgingly gave us a BIG COMPLIMENT last June 2020:
Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/reddit-qanon-ban-evasion-policy-moderation-facebook/616442/
Main point:
When Reddit buried Qanon, "it forget we were SEEDS."
Today, the concept of QAnon as a coherent and sanctionable group is almost quaint. QAnon is dangerous precisely because it isn’t hanging out in isolated subreddits, full of people who are committing obviously bannable offenses. Its hashtags are floating around otherwise-normal-looking Instagram posts. Its general philosophies—about the media covering up innumerable evils, the Democrats conspiring to harm children, a global cabal that wants you to suffer—are lacing your mom’s friend’s Facebook updates. Its supporters are retweeted by the president.
Reddit's approach may have kept QAnon out of one corner of the internet, but QAnon still spread into the real world.Now that it’s become irreversibly baked into American culture, that style of banning simply won’t do much good. It’s not too late to do something, but it’s too late to do something as simple as this.
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