Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
by JW_00000 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:18PM
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This is more akin to Walmart not selling certain magazines or books because they don't like their (political) content. You could also compare it to when the Catholic Church had a black list of "heretical" books and pressured their removal. Both are legal, but maybe not desirable?
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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
by valuearb on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:32PM
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Both are desirable. Walmart curates content for its customers, if it didn’t their sales experience would be far worse.
And as much as I dislike the Catholic Church, not allowing it to list books it finds heretical is outright restrictions of its freedom of speech. It’s only a problem when the church has the power to have governments also ban those lists, but that’s quite a different thing.