The 'blame the internet' narrative has crashed into the reality of a protected class which has the privilege to plan a terrorist act in the open, march unimpeded into the heart of government, face no consequences from law enforcement, and be told, in return, that they are loved.

Likewise. The debate on content moderation, until yesterday, assumed that processes supplant the rule of law. No laws or T&Cs can stop what happens when online evidence, movements, and associations, in public, get a free pass from those who hold power. https://twitter.com/mathver/status/1347154619449942017?s=19

The debate should not be about $platform banning $politician. The debate should be about why democratic institutions, and the rule of law, have atrophied to the point where a $platform's T&Cs are the only tools the world has at its disposal to rein in an unhinged authoritarian.

And yeah, this matters to all of us, as the future of content moderation and freedom of expression - for you and for me - will be shaped by the actions of, well, him and them. If the norms of our speech end up being constrained by the norms of his, he will have ultimately won.