Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by atypicaluser on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:32PM (#25695614)

OP writes:

> We just assume we're right.

And you follow up by proving just how right he is. First you dehumanize your political opponents--"If a rabid cougar gets loose..."--then you tell us what we need to do--"we take whatever measures we have to to get rid of it for the greater good of society."

And you claim it's the other side's speech that "is violent and damaging"?

P.S. At the time of this reply, it's not the current POTUS calling a sitting US Senator a "Goebbels". Care to guess where this is going?

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by caconym_ on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:49PM (#25695775)

The point of the cougar analogy is not to dehumanize anybody. It is to demonstrate that sometimes problems exist (problems as in configurations of reality that can be articulated as bad), and that doing nothing is often not the solution that will yield the greatest good in a utilitarian sense.

I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm curious, though—would you just let the cougar do its thing? Like, if that literally happened, and you were the guy at animal control who got the call?

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by disgrunt on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:56PM (#25695845)

I reject your analogy on it's face as a banal attempt to justify incivility and barbarism towards those in which we disagree.

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