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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by CodeShmode on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:09PM (#25708866)
Did you read the Parler screen captures in the article? They are blatently and directly calling for death and murder. Prohibiting the inciting of violence is not a political decision.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by spaginal on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:32PM (#25709259)
Are you telling me that Twitter and Facebook have 100% coverage on their platforms? Ha!
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kristofferR on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:17PM (#25709004)
They're barely read, they have like 5 upvotes. You can't expect a startup with insane growth to employ hundreds of people in a week.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by anigbrowl on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:26PM (#25709139)
Why not? They set themselves up as a free speech alternative to Twitter and begged people to move off that platform en masse. They already have the experience of Gab to consider. They knew what they were getting into, and this was exactly the sort of even they were hoping for (Trump being kicked off Twitter, huge numbers of people relocating to their platform).
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Sebguer on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:07PM (#25708829)
No, they've explicitly demonstrated that they're unwilling to moderate people making threats of violence, to a degree that Amazon is unwilling to continue to provide them with the tools to let their users make those threats.

The right to threaten people with death is, weirdly enough, not actually a right.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by systemvoltage on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:07PM (#25708841)
Citation needed. Where?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by alisonkisk on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:06PM (#25708810)
If demandinf murder is your political platform, and disallowing murder is leftist, then I guess AWS will shut you down for leftist political reasons, yeah.