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		pjc50 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deplatforming Backfired > Go explain vaccines in an antivax subreddit and watch as you get downvoted into invisibility and probably banned from the sub. See, deplatforming works! (like any tactic, it can be used for good or evil)

ch4s3 27 days ago [–]

> See, deplatforming works!

Again that's not what the article here that you didn't read is talking about. The article is about negative polarization and preference falsification.

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