Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by Amezarak on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:56PM
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It is curious to me that the reaction to people rioting in a place of institutional, systemic power is much more negative than when people were rioting and damaging small businesses, homes, and killing regular people. That is, people seem to be reacting much more strongly to people rioting in a way that damages institutional power than when they were rioting in a way that damaged the powerless.
The President is inciting violence by spreading dangerous misinformation and not condemning domestic terrorists.
Our sacred democratic institutions and world standing have taken a big hit. And, even worse - American lives were lost today due to this rhetoric.
We can't continue acting like this is a matter of hurr durr censorship anymore. It's time to move past idealism and into reality: people are in danger. Words have consequences.
We saw today what happens when people with immense power spout extremist ideology for years without consequence.
Let today's action by Twitter be part of the consequence. It's not censorship: it's consequence. Trump will not be arrested or chased for his rhetoric. He simply won't be able to spout it to the masses on a privately owned platform.
A life was lost today. There should be some consequence.