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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by mc32 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:44PM (#25708434)
What? What does unethical even mean? That's a weasel word. Pelosi lies, Schumer lies, McConnel lies, Trump lies, Biden lies. They all lie. They all cheat too. Are you going to deplatform 99%+ of politicians and 80+ of regular people too?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by rootsudo on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:10PM (#25708888)
Exactly. What scale, or how do you judge what is a lie?

What even is a "lie?" Someone disgruntled that is an USA citizen? That is not an USA Citizen?

It's like everyone forgot Politicans jobs are to play the wind, say the right words, garner support and always stay in the limelight of what society thinks they "represent."

I've been reading old newspaper articles/time magazines from the 1940s-70's and it's amazing how different the world itself, from media really represents and how these companies all join together on a message such as this.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pmiller2 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:15PM (#25708967)
Why not? Deplatform all the politicians -- at least the 95% who actively lie and work against the interests of the American people. While we're at it, kick them out of Washington on their asses. Nothing of value will be lost.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by smsm42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:19PM (#25709026)
That's not how it works. Instead, politicians are deplatforming what they want. You don't control the process, they do. Even if in the moment they deplatform people that you dislike, never think you have any control over it.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pmiller2 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:34PM (#25709290)
If Donald Trump holds a press conference and nobody comes, does it make a sound?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by smsm42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:30PM (#25710049)
A better question is - do you think current politicians are so perfect that you can trust them with controlling who can and can not have press conferences? Surely they would never abuse it for any other ends when they're done with Donald Trump!
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pmiller2 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:49PM (#25710272)
Who ever said anything about politicians controlling who can have press conferences? I can't even characterize that as a straw man, because it has no basis in anything I said.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by smsm42 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:55PM (#25724705)
Politicians control censors on Twitter (you don't think it's random that all prominent politicians from the right are censored and all prominent politicians from the left are not?) and Facebook. Censors control who gets access to the public discussions. Ergo, politicians control access to public discussions.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by pmiller2 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:14AM (#25726532)
Politicians are not directing Twitter to censor anyone. That would violate the first amendment. Why haven't these "censored" politicians won any lawsuits to get un-censored, then? Your argument falls flat on its face.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by smsm42 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:56PM (#25738987)
> That would violate the first amendment.

No it would not, since they are not doing it by means of the law. They do not need to force them by law, because key figures in Twitter and prominent leftist politicians belong to the same party and work for the same common goal - elimination of any possibility of dissenting from the partisan platform in any public space, and strict uni-party control of all speech on the internet (at least within the United States).

> Why haven't these "censored" politicians won any lawsuits to get un-censored, then

Because Twitter is a private company not covered by First Amendment, duh...