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by TheOperator 1986 days ago
The story has nothing to do with Steve Bannon's podcast channel and everything to do with the sea change in how social media moderation policy is being interpreted and enforced.
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But is it helpful for that discussion to repeatedly restart it for every social media platform in the sea? The specific details of the source article here don't seem to have added any new information; 100% of the comments I see would have fit equally well on "Stripe bans Trump campaign" or "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler" or any of the other threads we've had over the past few days.
There should be a standard numbered list of comments about these stories. Then we can all save time by posting a #3 or #11 or whatever.
Which itself is clearly driven by the sea change in the climate of political violence in this country over the past four days. On which we've clearly spent the many thousands of comments mentioned in tpacek's upthread comment. Bannon got banned for being part of the same violent subculture that got Trump banned and Parler canceled. I don't know that there's more that can be said that wasn't already in the other topics.