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> It must feel pretty surreal to be someone that is constantly moving to different communication apps and instantly finding them pulled by anyone and everyone.

It will feel exhilarating. It will enhance their victimhood, increase emotional attachment to their cause and serves to prove, to them, that "the man" is trying to unjustly suppress them and that they must group together, somehow, and rise up.

And will make them, even more, vulnerable to manipulation by those who want a mob. And there are many.

I support the suspension, since it incites violence. And I'm worried where society now heads.

When a large number convince themselves they are unjustly oppressed they will justify all kinds of horrors in the name of defence from the whatever bete noire is chosen for them.

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It’s really annoying as someone interested in hearing what fringe voices have to say even if I disagree with them. I’m constantly having to try to figure out where to go if I want to break out of the liberal echo chamber.

still plenty of it on twitter and 4chan

Twitter and 4Chan are generally for bareknuckle flamewars, and low-effort shitposts. In short, they're the least useful elements of the fringe, and their producers are easy to find because half their fun comes from ignoring bans, and pseudononymously transgressing social norms.

The content that is constantly forced to move is dialogue, and ideological exchange. The useful stuff. If you want to follow those discussions, you have to pay constant attention, and be prepared to run through social media accounts and platforms like tissue platform, or socially engineer yourself into multiple encrypted chats.

No it feels terrible and turned a Kerry 04, Obama 08 voter into someone who literally loathes the United States.

I'm not the only one who now has the urge to participate in society as little as possible.

The oppression may be seen as “just” or “unjust” but it definetely is there, the US Government itself usually classifies these sorts of acts (suppressing free speech) as oppression, that is when it happens in other countries.

That core group of enraged users will move elsewhere. Parler is a tumor, and Apple has loped it off. What tumors will rise in its place? If hate is widespread and has metastasized, the US will not last much longer.

But optimistically, 80% of Republicans surveyed said they opposed the break in (88% overall). If promoters of hate have to go underground, fewer people will follow them. Not only because of the hurdles to get there and broadcast their message, but the hate will be more concentrated and vile.

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