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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by zozbot234 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:14PM (#25723444)
> When you factor in a billion+ people moving from one platform to another it is not the platform that is deplatforming users but it is the users abandoning the platform.

We've seen this happen in the U.S. too with the recent conservative shift from Twitter to Facebook and Parler. If Parler does go down due to AWS pulling the plug, we will again see a shift to a new platform - it's a matter of where and when, not if.

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by shripadk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:15PM (#25723465)
> We've seen this happen in the U.S. too with the recent conservative shift from Twitter to Facebook and Parler. If Parler does go down due to AWS pulling the plug, we will again see a shift to a new platform - it's a matter of where and when, not if.

Exactly right! No platform is permanent. No company is permanent.

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by salawat on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:15PM (#25723932)
No Representative or incarnation of the Government is permanant either, yet there's so much uproar hhere about threats to $current_political_figure

To be honest, I just think this is how political infrastructure restabilizes. Heavy is the head on which sits the Crown [and vulnerable the neck], as they say. Once impedance mismatch hits critical levels, out come the fangs. Fangs coming out either prompts more impedance mismatch (crackdowns and self-preservation plays by established actors), prompting more crazy, or people start getting the message, and stability is trended back toward.

It's the most simultaneously fascinating and horrifying dynamic equilibrium problem I've ever witnessed play out in my life.