How Do We Reduce Hate Without Censorship?

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Tristan: How do we reduce hate without censorship? Parza fala wrote into us after hearing us talk about some of these things. He says social media companies can combat live broadcasting of hate crimes if they announce that for each view of a hate crime video against a minority group, they'll show content promoting that group to a thousand users. For their users, this can complement their machine learning effort to detect and remove such vidios quickly.

“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.