Online Radicalization

CW
by Connor Wilkerson2 views·Updated Mar 20, 2022
Re-use contentCreate your own

Chapters

Audio TranscriptAuto-generated

  1. Hello.
  2. My name is Connor Wilkerson,
  3. and today I'm going to be talking to you about the concept of online radicalisation.
  4. Basically,
  5. what online radicalisation is is when you surround
  6. yourself with people who think just like you,
  7. to the point where you start to believe only your opinions are
  8. correct and everyone else who disagrees with you is objectively wrong.
  9. Now many people like to blame the algorithm for this and say that the algorithm is
  10. causing them to stumble upon these areas where
  11. they're only around people who agree with them.
  12. But we must remember that we're responsible for our own actions.
  13. The algorithm may put us in these places,
  14. but it's our choice to stay in them and
  15. surround ourselves only with people who agree with us.
  16. It's like blaming the person who loaded a gun rather
  17. than blaming the person who fired it on another individual.
  18. We really do need to remember that our actions are our own fault and nobody else's