Deplatforming the Far-Right Could Accelerate an Extremist Underground

[Laelth]

2. Trump proved that a BIG platform is the way to be truly dangerous.

I think that this author is fundamentally wrong. I’d rather see the die-hard extremists, rebels, seditionists, and conspiracy theorists de-platformed. That will make them far less dangerous, imo.

I note that government can’t de-platform anyone. Doing so would violate the First Amendment, but private companies (Facebook and Twitter, for example) are free to de-platform anyone they want for any reason whatsoever, and I think that they would be doing the nation a public service if they banned all speech about or concerning the theories of Q-anon.

One study showed that disinformation on the internet dropped dramatically the day after Trump’s Twitter account was closed. De-platforming works.

-Laelth