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Sad that we have to do this. Trump supporters have been consistently pigeonholed by big tech censorship.
by um_ya 6y ago
Sad that we have to do this. Trump supporters have been consistently pigeonholed by big tech censorship.
- detaro 6y agoIf law enforcement is anywhere close to how interested they were in digging through posted photos/video as they were at other times recently, a lot of them will probably wish they'd been censored before the evidence got archived.
- newguy1234 6y agoThe difference is during the BLM/ANTIFA riots, people were doing much more serious stuff. One kid got bagged because he threw a pipe bomb over the fence at federal agents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_lZxmPxUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_lZxmPxUU) and another one where a guy hit federal agents with a hammer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vlKbR3Gcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vlKbR3Gcs). There was another situation where some lawyers (not kidding) threw a Molotov cocktail into a police car that had police actually in it.
- detaro 6y agoAnd police did use images to track down people who did none of those things.
- newguy1234 6y agoThey were prosecuted.
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- uncledave 6y agoI think this is a functional side effect of their communities. I’ve watched it happen on a smaller scale numerous times where people evict critical folk from their community. What you end up with is a snowballing monoculture which believes it is right because there is nothing to test ideas against. This usually decays into a right mess as is outlined. This is nothing to do with tech. It’s closer to burning witches who are undesirable in your community. It makes your community broken.
- newguy1234 6y agoIt happens in the left-wing as well. Reddit used to be a place where left-wing and right-wing could discuss stuff but then the left-wing got so hostile at "right-wingers" that they started banning them. So the right-wing people left and simply made their own communities off reddit. Well guess what happens next? Rampant conspiracy theories, more violent rhetoric and so on. So the right wing becomes more radicalized. For this Jan 6th march, I saw many people on right wing websites saying they wanted to fight BLM/ANTIFA people and give them the beat down basically.
- uncledave 6y agoIt’s not related to political wings at all and is self polarising. There are isolated factions of railway modellers, hairdressers, runners, cyclists and school mums as well! We’re a tribal species. This just allows us to execute our base instincts quicker. It’s stupid really. On politics I refuse to align with any ideology, only policies. There’s no us and them argument then, just the merit of the policy to consider.
- jnordonez 6y agoHow do you feel about the violent insurrection on our nation's Capitol that trump supporters perpetrated? I think that's pretty sad.