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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by Traster on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:40AM (#25760844)
Maybe we should think about this in the opposite way - when a person tries overthrow the government they should be arrested. The problem isn't that people on twitter are getting banned from twitter from advocating/planning the murder of members of congress. It's that they're not getting arrested.

If we actually had functioning law enforcement for this stuff then we could actually have a proper discussion about what legal content what should be moderated and how.

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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by phendrenad2 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:13AM (#25762130)
The law moves slowly. Angry mobs move quickly. Give it time. Just because the angry mob got there first, doesn't mean that the law isn't functional. I fully believe that people who broke the law will be tried, eventually.
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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by logifail on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:25AM (#25762273)
> The law moves slowly

..and [one would hope] carefully and [one would hope] according to well-understood rules.

"She said something that really offends me" probably won't get you arrested, and almost certainly won't get you convicted; under the current climate it might well get you kicked off social media.

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