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What’s amazing is this is, despite most commenters agreeing here, incredible evidence for the “they’re all controlled by the same people” crowd. This level of

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• gameswithgo 6y ago
  sure it is possible, these people all just agree that parler and trump are a danger to the country and want no part of it anymore. the combination of the riots and trump losing the election means there is both more motivation to jump ship and less risk from doing so. if trump had won the election none of these companies would take the risk.
• qeternity 6y ago
  Of course it is. It’s not like these are fringe views that people are acting on. Look at his inner circle who abandoned him before “Big Tech” did. There’s a huge (and growing) chunk of society that is sick of what he says and does. Forget his ideals, I’m talking about his behavior.
• danhor 6y ago
  The obvious reason could be something happening, impacting all these decisions in an major way. An attempted self-coup is a pretty good reason to act. Now the obvious question is, why did it take a few days? A) It didn't (twitter and other social media platforms reacted pretty fast) B) Companies that don't have a lot of experience with people inciting violence and riots (i.e. not huge social media companies) probably didn't have a process ready C) Since other companies took actions, the ones left may "read the room" In fact, the spread-around (in time) and ad-hoc actions speak more to an "oh shit, this is very bad for our image and our own employees are very unhappy with this" reaction