Is the USA heading for a civil war?

[JoelR]

@"JoelR" I honestly have no clue what these people think. For some people it's trolling and others they take it serious, they really are racist and they really are f*cking evil and I'm not kidding...

This is the stuff that was on Parler before AWS and warning, pretty graphic stuff...so click at your own discretion

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228...ree-speech

Yup I came across that article too while browsing around.  

I think the tipping point, however, is that it actually incited action.  There are a lot of dark corners of the Internet where people post rather unsavory comments every day.  The difference is that those words don't lead to action.  When you read up on free speech, an unprotected category is 'incitement of imminent lawless action.'  There was clearly an incitement of imminent action on the part of Parler.  

As a community owner myself, this discussion over Parler has opened up quite a few lines of thinking:
- In the pursuit of virality, how do you balance positive versus negative sentiment?  Negativity is quantitatively measured to be x2 as powerful as Positivity
- How do you handle moderation at scale?
- How do you allow users to be comfortable with familiar commentary, while also not trapping them in their own echo chambers?    
Legacy forums (and my platform, while using modern technology, is still firmly in that category) does nothing to address these deep, confounding issues.