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No, your comparison is not accurate; the most dangerous insurrectionists' communication means were not disrupted. They were mainly using platforms that weren't
by not2b 5y ago
No, your comparison is not accurate; the most dangerous insurrectionists' communication means were not disrupted. They were mainly using platforms that weren't moderating them and made key plans using end to end encryption and direct messaging. Only a total Internet shutdown would disrupt that. And forcing a private company to facilitate violence to keep a defeated president in office against its will would itself be totalitarian.
- sudosysgen 5y agoNot really, the most powerful tool of the insurrectionists were definitely mass-media. The attempt was to draw sympathy amongst politically receptive groups and to amass numbers, not to have a small but very well organized group conduct a coup. As far as common-carrier mandates being totalitarian, as I said, that's just one ideological viewpoints. Most European countries were quite shocked that the US allowed Trump to be banned.