It’s a hurtful topic and has complicated ramifications, but…
> other whatsapp groups that I'm not in, which are filled with hateful politics.
That brings the discussion from you to others users, and your goal seems to be to change how other users are affected by their time on a platform.
> The radical Bolsonaro whatsapp groups are a mix of top down and grass roots content.
You seem to be talking about motivated individuals who formed groups with a specific purpose and express their views and propositions in these specific groups (which you don’t belong to, as mentioned first)
Whatever way we slice it, short of the platform banning their related topics entirely, I don’t see how a neutral service could act about these people/ideas spreading, from a mere platform POV. You’re talking about thought policing private groups basically.
For sure, it would be foolish to assume that the problems could be solved by changing the software, or passing a new law. Policing private groups is impossible. We're living in a new world of social media and we still need to figure out how to deal with that. I hope that in the long term there is some kind of culture shift with how people interact with the internet, because whatever we're doing today isn't working.
By the way, I mentioned Bolsonaro explicitly because those groups are currently the better organized ones in the Brazilian social media space, masters at exploiting the Whatsapp dynamics. But the fundamental problem is not exclusive to the extreme right.
The extreme right is literally the fundamental problem. People keep saying "both sides" in this thread and honestly in most places in the world (especially US, Europe and as mentioned on this thread often, Brazil) the extreme right IS the problem. We don't need to invent scary leftist groups that threaten to overthrow the US government by storming the US capitol with nooses, we can just admit that it is the far right doing this on mass not the left and drop this stupid need to portray these global changes as a political radicalization on both sides rather than white nationalism becoming more openly violent and extreme.
Far right extremists are the problem, keep "both sides" out of this.
> other whatsapp groups that I'm not in, which are filled with hateful politics.
That brings the discussion from you to others users, and your goal seems to be to change how other users are affected by their time on a platform.
> The radical Bolsonaro whatsapp groups are a mix of top down and grass roots content.
You seem to be talking about motivated individuals who formed groups with a specific purpose and express their views and propositions in these specific groups (which you don’t belong to, as mentioned first)
Whatever way we slice it, short of the platform banning their related topics entirely, I don’t see how a neutral service could act about these people/ideas spreading, from a mere platform POV. You’re talking about thought policing private groups basically.