I made some comments earlier, and after receiving some noxious pushback I paused for reflection. Now I'm feeling very uneasy about this (not yet posting from a

I made some comments earlier, and after receiving some noxious pushback I paused for reflection. Now I'm feeling very uneasy about this (not yet posting from a throwaway, heheh). It is my feeling the combined action to de-platform Trump including de-platforming Parler is foolish and very likely to escalate the tensions, not defuse them, e.g. increase the likelihood of Bad Things Happening That I Won't Explicitly Detail Because I Don't Want To Be De-Platformed For Writing About Stuff That Should Perfectly Obvious To People That Pay Attention To History. Millions of people were moving onto Parler because TheDonald and a number of well known commentators told them to go there to avoid censorship. Subsequent to shutting Trump out of public social media over what could understandably be construed as a bogus rationale of censorship (especially if one believes the elections were fraudulent), BigTechBogeyPersons collude to shut everyone out of Trump's replacement platform, (and potentially any future option). That's what literally millions of American people perceive. My messaging is buzzing with non-tech people who are afraid the apocalypse is now and asking me what to do, what's going to happen, etc. People are asking me what to do about it! The blowback potential is off the charts. The chilling effect is over the top. There's plenty of American people personally affected. They are frightened and/or outraged by this outcome. Plenty of people who immigrated to the US from non-free countries have drawn conclusions from this that are quite different from the virtuous and self-righteous moralizing I see commonly proposed here on HN and by "acceptable" social media sources. The commenter who suggested this would be perceived as a "casus belli" probably hit the nail on the head.