Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
by adrian_b on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:34PM
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I do not think that it is very hard to determine when a protest becomes a riot, but I think that it is extremely difficult to determine who is guilty for transforming a protest into a riot.
I have no idea about what has really happened last year in USA, because the truth cannot be discovered just from video transmissions at TV or on the Internet.
Nevertheless, I have seen much more closely a large number of peaceful protests in other countries, which eventually became riots.
However it became clear later, that in most or in all cases, the transformation of the protests into riots was done by undercover police agents or secret service agents, who had infiltrated the protests and who had done this in order to discredit the protests so that their demands could be ignored and their organizers punished.
I have no idea about what has really happened last year in USA, because the truth cannot be discovered just from video transmissions at TV or on the Internet.
Nevertheless, I have seen much more closely a large number of peaceful protests in other countries, which eventually became riots.
However it became clear later, that in most or in all cases, the transformation of the protests into riots was done by undercover police agents or secret service agents, who had infiltrated the protests and who had done this in order to discredit the protests so that their demands could be ignored and their organizers punished.