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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

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[-] skymtf 23 points 1 year ago

I feel like our problem isn't that social media companies are not liable but that they are too big, like imagine this happening on mastodon. Generally I feel like mastodon would not allow this unless the instance was specificlly facist like the KF instance

[-] mob@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I dont think the Fediverse is a good example of not allowing certain activities.

[-] skymtf 1 points 1 year ago

it is mainly cause I feel like it's much harder to have an all goes policy, generally the reason radicalization happens on larger platforms is because it's pretty much an everything goes type of environment. A right wing instances is not very welcoming to thoose who are not yet radicalized. overall the reach is minimized too. on larger platforms you often have proganda pushed right into your (pivot to video feed) like I get tons of anti lgbt, anti jewish, and racist videos pushed right into my feed on instagram.

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