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 We should welcome these companies’ efforts to do their part to ward off further violence, even if there’s an element of self-preservation involved. We should also keep in mind that the platforms are only one part of the picture—they can’t make Trump or his most dead-end followers disappear. But to the extent that social media does bear responsibility for what happened at the Capitol, these hastily imposed emergency measures are almost beside the point. The online seeds of real-world violence were sown long before January 6.  https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-cant-ban-its-way-out-of-this/