[weixiyen]

The lives of congress men and women were undoubtedly at risk. I think this directly contributed to Twitter and many other tech companies clamping down on the mediums of communication for radical Trump supporters.

Tech platforms fear revenge from congress for enabling what took place, and it suddenly became a no-brainer business decision to ban Trump from social media.

[ineedasername]

I think these platforms also saw the potential for things to get orders of magnitude worse, very quickly, as we approach innauguration. Hints of it are already there in the less dominant and more permissive platforms. Maybe they figure it's better to err on the side of caution for 2 weeks and then reassess the situation.