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> However, Friday night one of the top trending tweets on Twitter was “Hang Mike Pence.

This has been going on for 12 years. More evidence that both sides use Twitter for violence:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/14/violent...

It wasn't too long ago that we cheer-on and celebrate how Twitter hosted calls for political violence. Much was said about how Twitter enabled the Arab Spring, and how that was so wonderful. There's even a wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...

Now the Western elite (on both sides, mind you -- whether it's against BLM or the Proud Boys) are doing their best pikachu face.

Mob-style tyrannical democracy for thee, but not for me.

That's a good point, and also I've seen comments here praising the "Arab Spring" years after it killed many millions of people (in Syria, Libya, etc.).

I would love to see Amazon drop Twitter and other large clients, and vice versa

I might drop everything and start building data center myself if that’s the case

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