Other way round: they've been talking this stuff up for decades. This is just the continuation of Waco and Ruby Ridge and Malheur and those guys who tried to kidnap a governor and the guy who blew up a telephone exchange and a dozen ""lone wolf"" mass shooters. And the "killdozer" guy. Eventually all the thousands of ""lone wolves"" who share the same ideas and politics and gun suppliers were going to get together.

They're angry. They're always angry, that's their politics. Social media, talk radio, and the Republican party have been stoking that anger with lies. I agree that it's impossible to completely cut off the conduit of lies, but something has to be done - and deplatforming works.

One of them was a retired USAF senior officer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128637/MAGA-mob-ri...

That's not an oppressed and censored person, that's a power hungry person trying to conduct his own little military coup.

A note that the Daily Mail is not considered a reliable news source by Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...).

There is a similar link from the New Yorker which is considered a reliable source:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-air-force-combat...

>This is just the continuation of Waco and Ruby Ridge

You clearly don't know very much about the facts of either of those events. I suggest you do some reading.

To expand for you, Waco and Ruby Ridge were basically people disliking some aspects of the government living peacefully until the US attacked them. They are more like a catalyst for these events, many of those that ran in similar circles saw the need for more organization.

deplatforming works - words of a true fascist

I think that was already a big risk. I don't think the Twitter ban is going to change anything other than taking away a platform that is being used to spread misinformation, anger, and fear

I agree about the bad timing. They could have kept the accounts on, assigning a task force to review each post until 20th Jan. It looks to me like a symbolic gesture which is gonna fuel conspiracies and anger. I mean, the presidential account is still on so the guy is still able to tweet.

He tried. He's burned through quite a few accounts trying to tweet.

They have banned the presidential account as well.

Exactly so. It would've been the smartest to clip the head off once the most momentum would have been blown off. That could've choked the entire movement.

The fact that I was heavily downvoted and flagged for stating the opinion speaks enough about what kind of knee-jerk reactions people are taking towards Trumpistas.