900 years ago we'd have hung, drawn and quartered them. Are you saying they shouldn't get due process?
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This is cracking me up!
Facebook and Twitter I can understand, but the rest are hilarious.
So he can't stream YMCA on Spotify, he can't post miming videos on TikTok, can't post him livestreaming a Demon's Souls speed run on Twitch, search for home decorations pins on Pinterest, take a photo of his lunch on Instagram or his dick on Snapchat!
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Social media is already so much quieter in just a few days. It's glorious. Aside from totally enabling his loudmouthed cult, I think his social media presence has probably been very detrimental to our daily mental health. It was relentless. And exposed the idea of a social media 'echo chamber' as a total lie because I worked really hard to create my own bubble and couldn't get even close to stopping the right wing presence from getting into it.
But now? There is already a calm.
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No bubble for the extreme right either, as Amazon has pulled Parler's hosting on AWS: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55615214
Rather now these groups have started up putting up posters around the country to organise "protests" across the country during inauguration: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1784935.html
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Originally posted by MartyG View Post900 years ago we'd have hung, drawn and quartered them. Are you saying they shouldn't get due process?
Currently US laws are,
Penalty for a coup
Penalty: Death or not more than 30 years' imprisonment (if committed during time of war) or not more than 20 years' imprisonment (if not committed during time of war).
en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Treaso...
Treason laws in the United States - Wikipedia
So technically if the US government was still at war with Iraq (for example, no need to go into all that here) they could be given the death penalty.
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You're listing punishment for treason, there's not even the tiniest of chances anyone in that group will be prosecuted for that, no matter what media commentators are saying, as It would require "intent to betray the nation" and that would never reach the required legal bar for conviction (crimes require mens rea remember). Potentially they could get a conviction for sedition (the legal bar is lower for that), but it's far more likely that any prosecutions will be for lesser crimes, such as destruction of government property.
Treason, sedition and a coup (i.e., advocating for the overthrow of the government) are all legally different things - prosecutors will try and convict for crimes they have the highest chance of getting a conviction for (much of the US legal system is bartered down outside of the courts by prosecutors and lawyers - the plead deals - simply to avoid the courts completely).
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Turns out Parler has less than stellar security; as their access to third-party authentication processes got cut off, some folks found ways to create admin accounts, giving them pretty much the keys to the castle. Data (including deleted items, exif metadata...) has been archived. Don't have a news site source, but naturally there's Twitter threads for those that don't mind some naughty words and schadenfreude.
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