Re:Twitter thread – What was learnt from deplatforming ISIS
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:24AM
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I think even more than deplatforming ISIS was the physical defeat of ISIS in the real world. If ISIS was still having success like it had when it started with quickly overrunning Iraq and establishing a "Caliphate" all the deplatforming in the world would not have mattered all that much.
In the same vein, with regard to the alt-right, the big event that happened was that Trump both lost the election and the attack on Capitol Hill was a spectacular failure. The Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to certify the election. Joe Biden is going to be the next President.
I imagine that if Trump had won re-election, or that somehow Congress had managed to nullify Biden's electoral votes and send it to House delegations that made Trump the winner, all the deplatforming would be pointless.
Deplatforming combined with demoralizing defeats is probably synergistic and effective.
In the same vein, with regard to the alt-right, the big event that happened was that Trump both lost the election and the attack on Capitol Hill was a spectacular failure. The Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to certify the election. Joe Biden is going to be the next President.
I imagine that if Trump had won re-election, or that somehow Congress had managed to nullify Biden's electoral votes and send it to House delegations that made Trump the winner, all the deplatforming would be pointless.
Deplatforming combined with demoralizing defeats is probably synergistic and effective.