| Summary/Abstract |
After rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, some of
the United States’ most powerful institutions sprang into action to punish the leaders ofthe failed insurrection. But they
weren’t the ones you might expect. Facebook and Twitter suspended
the accounts ofPresident Donald Trump for posts praising the rioters. Amazon, Apple, and Google e,ectively banished Parler, an alternative to Twitter that Trump’s supporters had used to encourage and
coordinate the attack, by blocking its access to Web-hosting services
and app stores. Major -nancial service apps, such as PayPal and
Stripe, stopped processing payments for the Trump campaign and
for accounts that had funded travel expenses to Washington, D.C.,
for Trump’s supporters.
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