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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by wassenaar10 on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:52AM (#25729556)
> Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.

So all social media then

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by onion2k on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:11AM (#25730844)
No, because most social media platforms don't freely allow the organization of violent mobs. Twitter, Facebook, etc will ban you for doing that. Even, as it turns out, if you're the POTUS.
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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by cyberdelica on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:00PM (#25740134)
> No, because most social media platforms don't freely allow the organization of violent mobs. Twitter, Facebook, etc will ban you for doing that. Even, as it turns out, if you're the POTUS.

I seem to remember just a few years back, social media platforms, and the darling media being quite proud of organising violent mobs - or as they preferred to call it, "freedom" - in a movement known as the "Arab Spring"[0]. It was touted as one of the "virtues" of such platforms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...

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