> Nobody was pulling a lever and blanket shutting down WhatsApp You don't need to if you can intervene at the specific application and user level. Which is wha

> Nobody was pulling a lever and blanket shutting down WhatsApp You don't need to if you can intervene at the specific application and user level. Which is what happened with Twitter and Facebook, Youtube and Parler. > there was no abuse of political power at play; you simply had independent entities Which happen to be companies from the same nation, after the political entity their actions are directed against has lost the elections and is well on its way out and its opponents are coming in. Russia doesn't have the luxury of having its own Facebook and Youtube. > The revocation of service by various American web services was not time sensitive, calculated to disrupt an ongoing protest; Yet it was motivated with the danger of further incitements- which means that the heat had not died down at all- the actions were explicitly aimed at preventing more protest.