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1. Probably. Take a look at some of the Parker dumps before it was shut down. Calls for death squads weren't couched in metaphor. 2. Even if not, Twitter, as mu
by eximius 6y ago
1. Probably. Take a look at some of the Parker dumps before it was shut down. Calls for death squads weren't couched in metaphor.
2. Even if not, Twitter, as much as I loathe it, also has many non-hateful users. Parler was a haven for alt-right extremism.
- dionidium 6y agoAnybody who has ever talked about housing on Twitter or Facebook knows that pictures of Mao and guillotines frequently accompany calls to kill all landlords (just to take one example I'm familiar with). Are these legitimate calls to violence? Or just jokey memes? Is there a difference? Who decides that? In what sense do these posts not demonstrate support for political violence?
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- dageshi 6y agoIn the case of Parler, it turned out that yes, the calls to violence were real and not jokes. You might say all these platforms previously gave Parler the benefit of the doubt and then were faced with incontrovertible evidence that Parler was facilitating political violence.
- xref 6y agoReplace “landlords” with “black people” and ask the same questions. Report the posts.
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