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A comment on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler. Parent comment

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dcolkitt on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:34PM (#25708254)
Question: Would this mean that Signal's backend would be prohibited from running on AWS?

After all, it's almost assuredly the case that at least some Signal users are actively plotting violence. Yet end-to-end encryption by definition makes it impossible for Signal to identify that content.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by lostcolony on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37PM (#25708319)
"Almost assuredly" is different than "obvious and blatantly and not being moderated". Obviously. You're making the same argument the government has made against encryption. Moderating a private conversation is obviously different than moderating a public one.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by amluto on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:40PM (#25708360)
Signal is essentially useless as a platform to recruit people for anything, legal or otherwise.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by CryptoGhost on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:50PM (#25708553)
But then you have cases where people leak private group chats (either from bad opsec or insider jobs) and people face the ban hammer.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by NoSorryCannot on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:46PM (#25708470)
A signal conversation is not a public platform. It's the difference between sending a letter and sending a newsletter.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by root_axis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:42PM (#25708389)
Signal isn't a social media platform it has no need for moderatation.
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