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Jesus, enough with the Gulag Archipelago references. Donald Trump was banned from Twitter. “Conservatives” were not. You are still free to engage in all manner

• krzyk 6y ago
  Did he really call for violence against his ideological opponents? I don't follow twitter, but it would be good to have some evidence.
  • Jeema101 6y ago
    It's not so much that he has intentionally incited violence - I don't actually think that's the case. It's that he's been engaging in political brinkmanship for some time now, and in the process become a spiritual leader to an extremist faction which caused violence. To allow him to continue to engage in that same brinkmanship after violence has already occurred is allowing him to continue inciting violence, unintentional as it may be.
• genidoi 6y ago
  He was banned from everything from Shopify to Spotify. This was a weaponised, coordinated deplatforming. People have been banned on Twitter before, and in fact other state leaders tweet significantly worse: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784?s=21 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784?s... This is about a small group of people coming together whilst collectively possessing significant power on the fabric of society and choosing to erase an individual.
  • pbourke 6y ago
    What do you suppose that example proves? If the account continues to post shit like that it should be banned too.
  • arcatech 6y ago
    It’s a large group of people. A large group of people all made the business decision that it’s better not to associate with Parler/Trump. That’s not coordinated deplatforming, that’s just a society making a decision.