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This sounds good at first, but I think it wears differently if you try to apply it to something in a different political quadrant.

Consider in the summer of 2020 there was a popular social movement that had quite a presence on social media that was spreading incorrect and ultimately very harmful statistics about police violence.

Arguably, this led to wide spread riots, large scale property destruction in multiple cities and ultimately an increase in crime. I think if a vocal minority bullied large corporations to effectively deplatform those social justice organizations then I think many people would be playing a different tune.



I don’t think it’s wearing differently. Inciting violence - be it from the left or from the right - is forbidden o most platforms.

I agree with you that in reality there would be bigger backlash if this was applied to the left than the right.




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