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Re:PeerTube v3 by etchalon on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:13AM (#25712671)
The post made clear that it wasn't about the tweet itself, but the broader context and how the tweet was being interpreted by communities who sought to do harm.

You can argue that's not fair to Trump, and don't pretend his accounts were banned for the literal meaning of the words, when the post you linked to makes clear the thinking behind the decision.

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Re:PeerTube v3 by throwaway316943 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:38AM (#25713692)
This is the “video games cause violence argument”
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Re:PeerTube v3 by cortesoft on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:01PM (#25717389)
That is no way comparable. This would be like if there was a video game where you killed politicians with machetes and then suddenly a bunch of politicians were killed in machete attacks.

At that point, you wouldn’t be able to say the video game was not a cause. This is not blaming Trump for abstract violence in general, but for specific violence that he called for actually happening.

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