isthisreality
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
The competition is not apples to apples. Instead, you have ideological bubbles like Gab, and you have the incumbent network (Twitter) which "normies" use by default.
The problem with the default network applying ideological censorship is that it limits the average person's exposure to the marketplace of ideas. In the context of a controversial topic, this benefits the default narrative tremendously.
If we want to reduce ideological conflict, it's imperative to respect alternative viewpoints and engage them as equals. Otherwise, we risk alienating people into becoming extremists, or worse, we allow the authorities (who work closely with censors and fact checkers) to control the Overton window and propagandize us away from the truth.
How much research and experimentation is being done in those areas?
Males are historically more effective at killing themselves. This data only looks at ED visits and you don't go to the hospital when you're clearly dead. And if you assume "suicide attempt" is using the technical definition [1], they're only looking at ED visits where the patient did not die.
Males aged 15 to 24 were 4x as likely to succeed in killing themselves in 2019. [2]
[1]: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide (see Definitions)
[2]: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide (see Figure 2)
In a lot of ways, repl.it is doing this.
https://blog.replit.com/powered-by-nix