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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by cabaalis on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:01PM (#25693975)
Never let a good crisis go to waste. I think we are seeing the beginning of a purge of a certain line of thought from the internet, using a few crazy people as the catalyst.
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by rodgerd on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:10PM (#25694210)
Could you explain exactly what that line of thinking is, and why you're troubled by this?
Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by cabaalis on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:20PM (#25694481)
Primarily right-wing apps, websites, subreddits, communities. I'm afraid there will be attempts to cite some kind of complicity and ban them.

I'm troubled by it because right-wing != violent, and 74 million people voted for the republican candidate. Continuing to disenfranchise their speech options will not go well.

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by PurpleFoxy on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:29PM (#25694684)
It’s not platforms fault that certain communities are much more likely to violate basic rules.

If reddit creates a rule stating “do not threaten or advocate for violence” and in the process of enforcing that rule they find out that certain groups are disproportionately affected, should they continue equally apply the rule or should they start tallying things up to make sure they ban equal amounts of each group?

Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by criddell on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:53PM (#25695118)
How do you reconcile that Google News still caries New Republic and The New American and lots of other Conservative publications. They don’t seem anti-conservative, just anti-extremist.