[cowmoo728]

What if a US politician purposely uses Twitter to incite an angry mob to commit a lynching? These are not just hypotheticals, internet platforms have driven mob violence at various scales in several countries.

"Just don't ban US politicians" seems like an unworkable solution.

[tekknik]

Please provide evidence, otherwise your statement is opinion. Not everybody believes the lie that Trump caused Jan 6

[nmz]

Indeed, and Charles Manson also did not commit and cause any murder.

[tekknik]

This is still not evidence.

[nmz]

You are right, he did not directly "cause" it in the strictest sense. Never did he say "storm the capitol" however. as a smart person. you should understand implications and metaphors and that many people know how to tiptoe the line between plausible deniability. and some can even dance on it. if you want to ignore this, then its fine.

[tekknik]

So now we should hold people accountable for the things crazy people do based off what they say?

As a smart person you should realize this is insane.

[nmz]

See the charles manson example, also, most cults. idolatry usually leads to this. see also cult of personality.

Also, yes. That sounds incredibly sane. Especially if they say "Lets have trial by combat" and other such calls to violence.

[jonny_eh]

Trump admitted that he deserved responsibility: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-tap...

We can quibble over details but it's far from being a "lie".

[tekknik]

From Trump himself right?

[cowmoo728]

I purposely did not mention Trump because I was not talking about Trump. I was referring to anti-muslim violence in BJP regions of India, and anti-Rohynga violence in Myanmar.

[tekknik]

Yea meanwhile the rest of the US focuses on this one action alone.