Listening to Mike Glover on Andy Stumpf's Cleared Hot podcast this morning, I was concerned to hear an organization Mike works with (founded?) has been deplatformed. He didn't mention which platform but he said there was no warning and the account was just gone.
I wanted to see if I could surmise why. The latest blog entry is a bit old but defines a list of "thread forces" being "monitored". It starts with an international lists of competitor countries and enemy groups. Maybe not the same list but others would put up but passes the smell test for me, fair enough.
But then it goes on to list the "national threat forces". I googled a few and some I recognized and I gotta tell you, I don't see ANYTHING from the right wing extreme on the list. It's all left wing stuff from what I saw including at least one legal, actual political party. No nationalist, fascist, or supremacist/separationist threats at all? Really?
I have heard Mr. Glover on podcasts a few times now and he claims that this organization is non-political. Some of the national threats may be actual threats, I don't know. Now you and I may not agree with the political views espoused by the communist party but many people served and died defending this country so that everyone, including communists, can share and advocate for their ideas. The website doesn't list why the communist party is a national threat. Nevermind there is an e-day countdown clock on the bottom of the page. Not so non-political, really.
So I stopped looking. I don't know how deplatforming works or why it happens. Based on a cursory look at the website, I can see it could have been caught up in filters looking for violent or misinformation spreading nationalist agitators. I don't agree with it, but I understand it and acting surprised feels disingenuous to me based on what I read.
