Usually deplatforming means getting booted from services like when Alex Jones had some 30 or so companies kick him off within 48 hours.
Much of twitter traffic is through the mobile apps, which are only installable through the apple store on iPhone or google play on Android. Block the apps, or even remote delete as Apple can do, and lots of traffic goes straight to zero. Only on Android if you know how to find and install from apk can you get around it.
There can also be a browser level attack like Firefox is doing with jimstoneindia right now. Fake tls certificate warnings, blocking image and multimedia loading onto the page, and so forth. Open the same site from another browser from the same ip and it works correctly.
OK, what does deplatform mean? Are there no other places to "re-plaform". I bet there are some.
Usually deplatforming means getting booted from services like when Alex Jones had some 30 or so companies kick him off within 48 hours.
Much of twitter traffic is through the mobile apps, which are only installable through the apple store on iPhone or google play on Android. Block the apps, or even remote delete as Apple can do, and lots of traffic goes straight to zero. Only on Android if you know how to find and install from apk can you get around it.
There can also be a browser level attack like Firefox is doing with jimstoneindia right now. Fake tls certificate warnings, blocking image and multimedia loading onto the page, and so forth. Open the same site from another browser from the same ip and it works correctly.
Not so easy on iOS.
On Android it's as simple as switching a setting.