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Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

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post #6

Article says that the Wayfair ordeal was a Qanon conspiracy. How was that attributed to them?

By following the digital trail - https://www.insider.com/wayfair-human-trafficking-conspiracy...

That's not the evidence you think it is. In sports analogies That would be the equivalent of brian windhorst tweeting out something and then you saying that it came "Directly from LeBron James".

People are not responsible for what their ignorant fans say.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#22
post #20
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What has Qanon ever said that can be remotely considered hateful? Who determines what is hateful?

> Who determines what is hateful? In this case, Twitter.

Sounds Orwellian

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you be more specific?

I think he's talking about Trump. Or do you suspect Obama is a White Supremacist, as well as not having been born in the United States?

I mean, the Republicans did try to frame Obama as a radical black separatist and terrorist sympathiser with the whole Bill Ayers/Jeremiah Wright thing[0,1], but they realized calling him a crypto-Muslim (and terrorist sympathizer, and if you want to wonder if he's the Antichrist too we're not going to stop you) would be easier given his name[2].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_2008_presidential_e...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright_controversy

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspira...

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#25
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By following the digital trail - https://www.insider.com/wayfair-human-trafficking-conspiracy...

That's not the evidence you think it is. In sports analogies That would be the equivalent of brian windhorst tweeting out something and then you saying that it came "Directly from LeBron James". People are not responsible for what their ignorant fans say.

Is "QAnon" even a person? I am under the impression that is a moniker that has likely been used by numerous unrelated people.

I know believers of this stuff think "QAnon" is a person, but I've not seen any evidence that leads me to believe this is the case and quite a bit of conjecture / circumstantial evidence that suggests at one point the name was being used by a cabal of imageboard moderators.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#27

The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves; we need people in power to curate what is seen.

People are able to judge information they encounter. The problem is when there is so much information, that the amount of time it takes to get to a piece of information that is worthwhile to evaluate has long surpassed the amount of time people have to evaluate the information. So good info never even makes its way to them.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#28
post #6

Article says that the Wayfair ordeal was a Qanon conspiracy. How was that attributed to them?

QAnon is a dynamic LARP. There is no conspiracy that they can't absorb. The anonymity of the authors is a feature, but it also means there is no person who can authoritatively deny that the WayFair conspiracy theory was not related to the core "deep state" one.

Honestly, my analysis of the Wayfair storage bin incident was that it was probably a LARPer (QAnon, 4Channer, Russian/Chinese troll, whatever) who had access to the WayFair vendor admin panel and realized that QAnon followers would eat it up.

Re: Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown

#30

The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves; we need people in power to curate what is seen.

Yes they are, they've done it for all of modern civilization. People in power telling us what to think doesn't end well.

The issue is social media and the speed and scale of information without identity or verification. That's not going to be solved by curation.

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