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Suddenly it is very easy for the powers that be to see the threat these platforms pose. Deplatform little people? Fine with us. Deplatform a head of state? Can'
by disgrunt 6y ago
Suddenly it is very easy for the powers that be to see the threat these platforms pose. Deplatform little people? Fine with us. Deplatform a head of state? Can't have that!
Facebook, Twitter, et al are going to regret the pandora's box of unintended consequences they just opened up with this move.
- Traster 6y agoFrankly, facebook, twitter et al. really didn't have much choice. They've been as tolerant as they can be. It was parler that screwed things up. It was meant to be a right wing equivalent to the left wing social media companies (who, coincidentally, are incredibly anti-union, anti-corporate tax, and anti-workers right, or as was previously known incredibly right wing). Instead they produced a platform that was rampant with death threats, resulting in the only (overtly) right wing platform collapsing.