Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Post by _r0fz » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 7:04 PM UTC

Red_Tarsius wrote: post #112

>The Capitol Attack Where was this rhetoric when Antifa and BLM burned and looted for months with the blessings of all corporations and the mainstream media? Surely the Capitol Hill has an insurance policy? Or does that moronic point only apply to the common folk? Susan Rosenberg literally bombed the Capitol in 1983 and now serves as vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents, a " non-profit foundation…

Post by dr-detroit » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 7:06 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #58

Or, in reality speak: "Some Trump supporters/goofs discussed this protest for months on Facebook". Makes it sound like it describes some huge conspiracy with dire results instead of the equivalent of partisan people dissatisfied with the results (and driven by polarization from both sides) to discuss and do the equivalent of "Let's go into the Capitol to protest, that'll show them".

Post by Nextgrid » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 7:07 PM UTC

yonaguska wrote: post #100

Nextgrid wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook and pretty much all the advertising-supported platforms made billions while directly contributing to this incident by pitting people against each other and showing them divisive, offensive and often false/misleading content. Parler in comparison doesn't seem to be making any money off this yet.

Parler did have plans for generating revenue. I'm not sure what your point is. Facebook and Google were operating at a loss initially as well. It seems like you are arguing that deplatforming Parler is more ok, because they never got to the point of being entrenched tech hegemonies? Or are you arguing that Parler is somehow more quilty because they weren't making money yet, so their intentions are bad?

Post by ardy42 » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 7:07 PM UTC

marcusverus wrote: post #31

ardy42 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Still in the app stores I see. That's because this stuff was a tiny fraction of the activity on Facebook (it's HUGE, and still mostly for baby pictures), but a substantial fraction of the content on Parler and Gab (they're tiny , and mostly for the stuff that Facebook and Twitter ban). A lot of people who object to Parler's treatment want this conceived as a simple binary, but it's more of a matter of degree an pro…

>That's because this stuff was a tiny fraction of the activity on Facebook (it's HUGE, and still mostly for baby pictures), but a substantial fraction of the content on Parler and Gab (they're tiny, and mostly for the stuff that Facebook and Twitter ban). I would love to see a source for this claim.

Post by pokstad » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

ardy42 wrote: post #84

efwfwef wrote: post #21

If people had called one another to prepare this, would we say that the phone was responsible for the attack? And would we try to ban phones?

> If people had called one another to prepare this, would we say that the phone was responsible for the attack? And would we try to ban phones? That's a moot point, because an attack like this can't realistically be organized via one-to-one communication. It needs a broadcast medium, which the phone network isn't.