What Are the Unintended Consequences of This?

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i want to make sure that we talk about how social media has been amplifying some of these these things. It's becoming less so much about the videos that are actually recorded as the way that they use comment section on the vidios. How can we be smart about it? It's a challenge. I mean, back in the bad old days, i had a computerized voicemall system. My phone line received the most calls when it was under the most of censorship.

“You can binge watch an ideology in a weekend,” says Tony McAleer. He should know. A former white supremacist, McAleer was introduced to neo-Nazi ideology through the U.K. punk scene in the 1980s. But after his daughter was born, he embarked on a decades-long journey from hate to compassion. Today’s technology, he says, make violent ideologies infinitely more accessible and appealing to those who long for acceptance. Social media isolates us and can incubate hate in a highly diffuse structure, making it nearly impossible to stop race-based violence without fanning the flames or driving it further underground. McAleer discusses solutions to this dilemma and the positive actions we can take together.