"They also mentioned Discord as a target for the administration, alleging without evidence that the attack was "coordinated" there. ("These were communications between the suspect's roommate and a friend after the shooting, where the roommate was recounting the contents of a note the suspect had left elsewhere," Discord VP of trust and safety Jud Hoffman said in a statement last Friday.)"
""There is a big difference between the left canceling people and the right canceling people," conservative influencer Matt Walsh tweeted over the weekend. "The left cancels you for saying things that are true. To the extent that the right cancels you, it is for saying things that are abhorrent and sick. A pretty important distinction.""
The White House and Trump-aligned actors aim to pressure multiple social platforms — Meta, Reddit, Bluesky, Roblox, Discord — to remove content that calls for violence or recirculates a horrifying video. Platforms that host or fail to take down such content are targeted for sanctions or public scrutiny. Discord characterized the referenced communications as a roommate recounting a note, not coordination of the attack. Conservative spokespeople framed cancel culture as asymmetrical, portraying left-leaning cancellations as punitive for true statements and right-leaning cancellations as responses to abhorrent speech. Some analysts view shifting stances on moderation as a political strategy to advantage a movement.
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