This will be an extremely unpopular comment and will probably be the end of my ability to post on HN
Pre-emptive victim posturing to gain sympathy for your argument. Do better.
What we saw today was precipitated by mass deplatforming and censorship. When you take away the ability of people to participate in peaceful political discourse, you push them towards violence.
Bullshit. I've deplatformed quite a lot of people. It doesn't happen by accident, someone has to be openly promoting genocide or the like before I'm willing to spend time, effort, and reputational capital in pushing them out of the room.
Half of the American electorate currently feels profoundly unheard.
Why, did they accidentally mute Fox News, OAN, or talk radio? There's an entire industry based around airing the grievances of Trump and the sort of people who support him.