OTM: The Great Deplatforming
If incitement falls in the forest, and almost nobody can hear it, can it trigger insurrection? The whole world of Big Tech this week began seriously, systematically and almost universally answering that question when, after years of watching Donald Trump use their platforms to incite violence of different kinds, the companies cut off his access to their megaphones. Casey Newton writes about the intersection of tech and democracy for Platformer. He tells Bob that, as an advocate for concerted action, he watched in satisfaction this week as the digital spigots were cut off one by one.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/great-deplatforming-on-the-media)
Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm011521_cms1082074_pod.mp3
Interesting to see OTM run with the same title I'd chosen though I'm hardly the only one, or the first.
