{"id":12791,"date":"2021-01-15T12:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2021-01-15T12:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:39:27","slug":"assault-on-the-capitol-has-let-loose-the-electronic-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/assault-on-the-capitol-has-let-loose-the-electronic-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault on the Capitol Has Let Loose the Electronic Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two&nbsp;days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both tweets passed the censorship rules of Twitter\u2019s 20-something judges in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, Trump has been banned for life from Twitter and barred indefinitely from Facebook. Twitter said in a statement that it excluded Trump \u201cdue to the risk of further incitement of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president had called for thousands of his followers to assemble at a massive Washington, D.C., rally protesting the results of the election. Splinter groups broke off from the massed protesters. Some stormed into the halls of Congress. Social-media platforms canceled Trump after he urged his followers \u2014 albeit \u201cpeacefully and patriotically\u201d \u2014 to go protest at the U.S. Capitol, where the mayhem followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/assault-on-the-capitol-has-let-loose-the-electronic-octopus\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Two&nbsp;days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. 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