Other consequences of platform takedown operations may affect any user.
Individuals who are locked out of their accounts with major platforms like
Facebook or Google, for example, may ﬁnd themselves unable to access other
online services that depend on the same login information. Those who depend
on hosting services to maintain their writing or art may ﬁnd their own sole

56 Research by Susan Benesch, for instance, indicated that speech believed to be correlated to
violence during Kenyan election was overrepresented in closed Facebook discussion, compared
to public exchanges on Twitter (Benesch 2014).
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