AnonymityX1000
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Yeah, she shouldn't have done that. Asking your supporters to be arbiters of disinformation is stupid anf dangerous. Every fan base has an extreme % that acts in kind even hers.She told her supporters to report false, threatening, misinformation tweets that have gone viral which are lies that have her photoshopped doing weird shid or saying shid she didn't say. Flagging "harassing and threatening" social media posts ≠ call the police on social media critics. I don't know why this is becoming an equivalence to snitching.
Is there even evidence that guy was reported on Twitter and then it was sent to the FBI? The US government could have found him by going to his podcast site. It's not THAT difficult.
Considering there are dozens of death threats on her head, I sympathize. I do agree that the social media giants being arbiters of truth is a problem. The companies should be broken up and shid... at the same time, there are straight up lies and fake shid going viral from right wing sources primarily and now you have elements of the left that will seize on it to attack AOC as a corporate shill and a sellout every week.
This isn't to defend her stupid takes on Israel-Palestine seeing her juelzing or something like that. She should get roundly criticized for speaking in platitudes. I got no problem with that.
The guy said his local police came on behalf of Capital police and it was specific to the tweet.