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by arenaninja 1980 days ago
It was a hashtag about a video of the DC rioters chanting it. Context matters, and in this context it wasn't hypocritical at all

Source: not on twitter but am familiar with the video

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I dont understand your point... Couldn't people watch this video and think that they were right? Hence twitter was doing exactly the same thing than parler. It is not because you are under the impression that twitter is a democrat tool that people not thinking like you are using the platform to commit crime, promote violence, learn how to be violent and racist
What I mean is originally the hashtag was being used to spread the video. You're right, people took it out of context and started making actual threats. But that's when Twitter removed it all and banned the tag. This seems different from Parler which AWS asserts still hadn't addressed content they had flagged as violations before
It seems like there were some death threats on Twitter as well. Most of them were removed so I can't find any direct source.

> When the rioters could not find and fulfil their ill-formed dreams in the real life, they took to Twitter to express their wish to hang Mike Pence, and soon the phrase started trending on Twitter. [0]

0. https://www.wionews.com/world/twitter-blocks-phrase-hang-mik...