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Jan 6th didn't "cause" catastrophic risk. Events like jan 6th present huge potential risks. If the insurrection had been successful the best case scenario woul
by pfisch 5y ago
Jan 6th didn't "cause" catastrophic risk. Events like jan 6th present huge potential risks.
If the insurrection had been successful the best case scenario would be economic collapse and possibly civil war in the country where these platforms are based out of. It is likely that many states would reject the sovereignty of the federal government if it didn't honor the outcome of the election, and from there things would quickly spiral out of control.
The potential outcome from the end of democracy in the us would entail catastrophic risk for the companies based here.
- downandout 5y agoWar being threatened by a nuclear power like Russia carries with it the “catastrophic risk” of the end of the world, with billions of people dead. Even if one were to wholeheartedly believe that the hyperbole in your comment was an entirely plausible outcome of January 6, the Russian tweet is far more dangerous than anything related to the Capital riot. It’s outrageously hypocritical that the Russian official’s account is alive today. They didn’t even slap a warning label on his tweet.
- pfisch 5y agoExcept social media can't control if Russia will fire nukes. The Russians don't need to rally a russian mob on social media to goto war at all. Twitter can't prevent this from happening by censoring a russian official.
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- downandout 5y agoThey couldn’t control January 6 either. Literally the only people charged with sedition - those who had a plan - were part of an extremist organization that coordinated in person.
- pfisch 5y agoJan 6th would not have happened without social media spreading lies about the election for months. It is ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
- headsoup 5y agoWouldn't it? What about the TV stations repeating it, or any other platform available? I didn't realise social media was so new! The situation says more about the deep division and anxiety within society that made it possible than social media being a cause.
- pfisch 5y agoThe Jan 6 insurrection were organized almost entirely on social media, not the news. The news was barely talking about a "stop the steal" rally in dc on Jan 6 before it happened.