Re: the Alex Jones thing. I think the most likely scenario is that there's an activist group who put Jones in their sights and negotiated the mass banning with the (friendly and amenable) web providers. 1/
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They wrote a game plan, contacted friendly management and said, "Look, do it all together and 1) you make it look inevitable, which reduces the backlash, and 2) the backlash gets evenly divided between all of you." It's clearly a reply to Cernovich's operation against Gunn. 2/2
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"But crisis actors, but children, Alex Jones deserves it!" Sure. How long ago was the crisis actor rant? March. How long ago was the Gunn firing? Late last month. Cernovich has a hosting gig on Infowars. This is retaliation. The right takes a pawn, the left takes a bishop. 3/2
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If it's so fucking easy to do, why the fuck aren't we organising to hit them the same way?
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It's not easy. It requires lots of warm bodies, extensive training, strategic guidance, decades of investment, and a culture that supports all of these. @hradzka writes about the difference between left and right activism through this lens a lot.
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