Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard...
by crocodiletears on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:30PM
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Happened, but it targeted more than just right-wingers, though they bore the brunt of it. Pretty much every local political activist I know had their accounts restricted right before the election. In addition:
Most libertarian groups and pages I know affiliated with the 'boogaloo' movement caught a ban
Most of the pro-trump pages I know caught a ban, as well as pro-trump groups involved in on the ground activism
A few left anarchist groups I was in caught a ban.
It wasn't so much 'purge of the right', there's always a low-level purge of right wing pages going on, either because of moderator bias, or simply because leftists and/or liberals spend more of their free time infiltrating groups and reporting right wing content than vise-versa.
Rather, it struck me as an attempt to suppress protests and potential violence in the streets on either side of the political divide in the days subsequent to the election.
Most libertarian groups and pages I know affiliated with the 'boogaloo' movement caught a ban
Most of the pro-trump pages I know caught a ban, as well as pro-trump groups involved in on the ground activism
A few left anarchist groups I was in caught a ban.
It wasn't so much 'purge of the right', there's always a low-level purge of right wing pages going on, either because of moderator bias, or simply because leftists and/or liberals spend more of their free time infiltrating groups and reporting right wing content than vise-versa.
Rather, it struck me as an attempt to suppress protests and potential violence in the streets on either side of the political divide in the days subsequent to the election.