So people will abandon the censoring social media apps. They are now part of the conspiracy. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter. But who will take over?<p>Parlor? Really? Cambridge Analytics is more trustworthy?<p>When viewed from a historical point of view, Asia had a huge censorship problem for a much longer time. Both China and Japan. Both solved this by lobster-like invite-only groups. And strict anonymity.
I think this is factually wrong and I believe the suppression attempts were the deciding factor to give weight to the ideas fueled by distrust.<p>That said, reddits political discussion degraded massively within the last years when attempts of removals were doubled down on.<p>in a free for all net conspiracy weren't a problem at all, so it would be prudent to analyze what changed. And the most fundamental change was increased moderation and silencing attempts.<p>QAnon is a prime example because banned people congregated in other parts of the net. That wouldn't have happened if they could have still presented their views on other platforms where others could have objected.
They called the stuff that Snowden revealed a conspiracy before it broke. Einstein's island as well. It seems a good way to shut people up is to label their talking points conspiracy theories. It makes sense to throw out a few silly ones just to make the borderline ones less believable.