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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 nodamage on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37PM (#25708312)
Aren't all these things already regularly done in response to copyright violations, spam, child porn, etc? Seems like the precedent was set long ago.

> Obviously actual terrorist group sites can and should be taken down, but this feels more murky than that.

Considering the perpetrators of Wednesday's attack had guns and bombs[1] and declared their intent to kill US political leaders... what exactly distinguishes them from "actual terrorist groups"?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/us-capitol-riots-arr...

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by adolph on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:33PM (#25709268)
The article says somebody parked 2 blocks away and left bombs and guns in their truck. Doesn’t that make you think the perps did not have guns and bombs while they were perpetrating?
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nodamage on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:53AM (#25711634)
Just because he was arrested before he could use any of those items doesn't change the fact that violence was intended. Pipe bombs were also planted at the RNC and DNC headquarters.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by adolph on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:00PM (#25737957)
A bombastic bipartisan, eh?
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nodamage on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:38PM (#25742362)
It seems like the goal was to distract the police and draw them away from the capitol building.
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