@txtx@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca 1. why not just ban nazism and far-right parties instead of locking down social media and enabling nazi tech firms like palantir to implement more surveillance? 2. that is just not what happened especially pre-ww2, the united states didn't crack down on fascists until they entered the war, the french had a strong far-right movement, the USSR heavily collaborated with the nazis right up until the invasion. britain was the only major combatant which lacked a robust pre-ww2 far-right movement and that was more down to luck than anything else, the USSR was the only country that banned naziism but that was more of a side effect of them banning anything that wasn't stalinist orthodoxy.

@txtx@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca it's not social media, its a network of elite child rapists and their sympathizers who coordinated a plot to push back the gains that marginalized groups made via the internet, especially trans people. there's also a lot of right wing freakouts like this that didn't involve the internet, the book "when the clock broke" goes into a lot of detail on this in the context of early 90s USA, in a similar vein the nazis used radio to score a lot of their political gains.