Now Fascism Today is talking about getting fascists kicked off social media platforms and the fear that the same tactic could be used against antifascists, and is portraying social media companies as WAAAAAAY bigger allies than they are.
Like, he talks about which fascists have been kicked off Twitter and Facebook without mentioning *just how long* it took to get them booted, *just how many* are still online, or the ways these sites profit off of Nazi presence.
Fuckin' Jack Dorsey *following* half the Nazis on here should at least warrant a mention, I think?

He also doesn't even mention ban evasions and alt accounts.
And, as for fear that this tactic will be used against the left, he mentions only a single antifascist podcast that got kicked off Patreon, and not the hundreds of trans accounts that have been mass-reported and suspended by transphobes claiming "TERF" is a slur.
Do I even want to mention that Kyle Kallgren got suspended for saying "death to fascism?"

Like, Shane, buddy: They've been doing it to us since long before we did it to them.
He's not wrong that pulling fascists off major platforms is a necessary tactic, and I do think we sometimes fixate so much on how slow the platforms are to act that we don't acknowledge how it is, *slooooowly*, working.
But, again: A lack of nuance misrepresents the problem.

(book is still good, don't @ me)
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