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Thats what I’m always curious about. Banning nnn just makes them think they were right.
What ever happened to the good old ignore? We forget they exist wont it kind of just go away?
It’s not like the people there are on the fence about getting the vaccine or not right?
Comment by Nuclearsunburn at 31/08/2021 at 14:56 UTC*
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Not only are they reinforcing the opinions on NNN by singling them out like this, they're massively signal-boosting their message by taking this route. I mean, if they think that, as one of those mods asserts in this thread, having NNN up is killing people, aren't they now contributing to killing people? These mods are power tripping.
I wish I could start a poll here in OOtL asking "Did you know NNN existed before this protest?" - just to get an idea of just how much of a signal boost these mods are giving them. I sure didn't know it existed, and I definitely browsed it for a while after learning of it. Reading the threads there, I saw a lot of people who learned of it from OOtL and the protest.
I agree with quarantining the sub, since vaccine misinformation DOES get spread there, and it does tend to be heavily upvoted. Whether that's more of a tribal identity thing or an actual antivaxx sentiment on the part of individuals, I don't know and I won't assume either way. It shouldn't appear on r/all or be in anyone's "recommended for you" section. But removing it entirely, and autobanning people in other subs for posting there? That's ridiculous and unhelpful.
For the most part, people there are decided one way or another, but it should tell you something that vaccinated people are there, too. That tells us that it's not a sub that ONLY spreads antivaxx nonsense - they just don't censor it. Reddit has a report function for problem posts. Taking away their echo chamber is ridiculous. Saying they "spread" misinformation at NNN is like saying a prison riot “spreads” outside of prison walls. (EDIT: finished my thought in this sentence)
If you never checked it out and just read what these "protest" organizers are saying, though, you'd think NNN ONLY exists for the purpose of spreading disinformation. That's just not true. I've seen plenty of reasonable people there who simply just don't want vaccine mandates, shutdowns, etc. Those are issues which need to actually be talked about in a cost / benefit kind of way. Anyway, sorry for the long reply. This just has me wound up.