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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by rvz on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:10PM (#25708881)
Most people here already have instantly forgotten about the planned action of millions of dollars worth of damage and looting of businesses and federal buildings that were burned down during the summer riots with BLM and Antifa inciting violence during the run up to the elections last year which the content is still freely available on Twitter with it being hosted on AWS.

So I do not see how Twitter is any different to Parler here if I can still find both of this content (and the users responsible) on their platforms. Perhaps the moderation on Twitter has a bias to one camp or its users have a heavy bias to only reporting the content that they think 'violates the ToS'.

The fact is, both social networking sites here have this content hosted on AWS and either have a poor or a bias in moderation of this content.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:22PM (#25709079)
I can't speak for everyone, but I haven't forgotten about those things and was arguing at the time that much of that rhetoric needed to be shut down. I do wish that internet platforms would consistently shut down everyone who plans violence, but I'm hardly gonna say that this violence should be allowed just because other kinds were allowed in the past.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Apocryphon on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:22PM (#25709071)
To resolve this whataboutism, I'd be perfectly fine with banning Twitter until they improved their moderation practices. But it's whataboutism nevertheless, no?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by agiroth on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:55PM (#25709621)
Amazon made the decision to change that calculation and in this case, whataboutism is perfectly valid.