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Well there was the attempt at violent overthrow of a government... That's one difference.
by lallysingh 6y ago
Well there was the attempt at violent overthrow of a government... That's one difference.
- throwaway894345 6y agoPersonally I think it's a security problem that Pillow Man's LARPer mob constituted a credible threat to our National Security. This doesn't seem like cause to restrict speech. (Of course, Twitter is technically a private platform, but it's also the de facto public square as I discussed elsewhere in this thread, and the property we ought to care about is that free speech is protected in the public square).
- lallysingh 6y agoI think the Free Speech problem is really a problem of automatic amplification by platforms that have motivations sometimes opposed to the well-being of the speakers or listenrrs.
- throwaway894345 6y agoMaybe, but even then the "free speech problem" should never have become a "national security problem". National security aside, free speech works pretty well when the public square isn't privatized by a handful of entities with the same general business model (using outrage to sell ads), which is perhaps your very point.
- fareesh 6y agoSeemed like one of the poorest attempts I have ever seen, is it really being treated as a serious one?
- lallysingh 6y agoThe defenses were so poor it was a coin flip whether it would succeed.
- konjin 6y agoWhat would success have looked like? Stealing the original copy of the constitution and using whiteout to change the bits they didn't like?
- kibwen 6y agoSuccess for them would have looked like apprehending the legislature and coercing them into throwing out the votes of states that didn't go to Trump. And this is charitably assuming that their chants of "hang Mike Pence", along with the gallows they erected out front, might have only been for show.
- konjin 6y agoMy version of editing the constitution is vastly more likely to happen than whatever fever dream this is.
- kibwen 6y agoPerhaps you're so naive that you think that a murderous mob successfully overthrowing an elected government is unprecedented in US history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...
- splistud 6y agoI suppose when you want to smear half of the population you use what you got