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> I've read it before, and I spent a few hours reading it this weekend, and it's beyond clear to me that it absolutely had the potential to radicalize shooters and terrorists.

What was it you read there that convinced you that websites are capable of turning people into murderers any more than video games are?

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An implicit acceptance and endorsement for the messages of hate and violence?

I personally doubt violent video games turn people into murderers; I suspect they do desensitize people to violence, and normalize violence. That's the problem with 8chan: violence, hated, bigotry, etc are normalized

>An implicit acceptance and endorsement for the messages of hate and violence?

you mean the same thing alot of movies and videogames do also?

Do you not think that discussion has the potential to convey ideas and change minds? It hardly seems implausible to say that a group of people eagerly urging each other to murder could possibly result in someone getting murdered.

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