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Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (www.wired.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lantern@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’d say having these groups coordinate in a platform where government officials are able to gain easy access is better than banning them and forcing them to move to more secure methods of communication.

With that being said, I do think most social media (even Lemmy) could do a better job at vetting what content is recommended to or seen by users.

Mandatory disclaimer: I in no way support these groups or their beliefs.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’d say having these groups coordinate in a platform where government officials are able to gain easy access is better than banning them and forcing them to move to more secure methods of communication

It's not, because extremism spreads like herpes. Making these platforms more accessible to government officials also makes them more accessible to vulnerable, stupid people -- and there's 1000 of them for every 1 fed who wants to stop a terrorist attack.

Also, the people at the core of these groups are absolutely aware of secure communication. The Facebook page might say "Rally for Freedom, 2A welcome" but behind that curtain, human dogshit are brainstorming things like "how can we get counter protesters killed".

As dumb as most of the far-right is, very few are stupid enough to plan crimes and conspiracies on Facebook.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The ones who are stupid enough to publicly plan an attack are still being arrested for publicly planning Jan. 6 on that Nazi Twitter. I mean, nowadays Twitter is Nazi Twitter, but at the time it wasn't, they used that other thing.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It catches the deeply stupid, but not the ones blessed with 3 braincells. Even the ones struggling by on 2 will learn from those mistakes.