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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by eagsalazar2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:18AM (#25668179)
Deplatforming is a persistent right wing fantasy. If you don't openly misinform regarding public safety or very explicitly promote hate you can largely get away with saying almost anything else on Twitter, etc. When Trump blatantly spreads dangerous misinformation about Covid, for example, there is a lot of whining about deplatforming. Don't be fooled.

Furthermore, claiming deplatforming (a delusion) is the cause of political violence is nothing more than a grotesque distortion and justification.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by TheOperator on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:43AM (#25669170)
So Trump got kicked off twitter, and people can get kicked off various platforms for saying extreme things, but deplatforming does not exist because you agree with the reasons why those people got kicked off, and therefore other people are delusional and living in fantasies, and you have an opinion on if this concept which does not exist causes violence.

First definition I found https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deplatform (transitive, formal) deplatform 1: To prevent someone from utilizing a platform to express their opinion.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by happytoexplain on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:18AM (#25672851)
If you rely on the literal definition devoid of further context, every single person alive has been deplatformed.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by TheOperator on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:01PM (#25681004)
Yes, and?

You think it's worse to interpret a word literally if that literal definition is broad, than it is to interpret a word in a way that makes the other person seem delusional and nonsensical? In the context of a specific conversation, its more reasonable to interpret somebodies words in a way that makes their words make sense, than in a way that makes them sound delusional.

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