Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by hintymad on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:18PM (#25709020)

I guess the current consensus in the US is that it's okay for companies and medias to be arbitrators of what's wrong and what's right. What I don't understand is why companies have double standards. For instances below, a politician, a media anchor, and a random singer. They didn't incite violence?

-- Khamenei wanted to eradicate a people: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784?l...

-- Chris Cuomo said protests didn't need to be peaceful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezGyemHna_k

-- A rapper sang about how to rob Chinese families because "they don't believe in bank accounts": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFxOsUe0I8o

And what about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRnmnxVtDqg That's okay because the right people claimed that Kavanaugh was a rapist?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chillwaves on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:21PM (#25709056)

Amazon didn't write this law.

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by roenxi on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:23PM (#25709961)

That reading of the law is frankly stupid. They are organising a protest and AWS isn't able to take on the responsibility of being the moderation team for an entire internet. And not every nasty comment on the internet represents a threat requiring a police response.

There isn't any rebellion or insurrection going on, these are protests. We all know what a US political protest looks like, we've been watching them for years. There isn't anything especially new here.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by f430 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:41PM (#25710184)

It's funny when one side does it, it's protesting and when the other does it, it's terrorism. Straight out of 1984

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chillwaves on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:05AM (#25710452)

When did BLM try to overthrow the government? When did they try to execute politicians?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by vernie on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:39AM (#25710842)

https://emojipedia.org/woozy-face/

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ipv6ipv4 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:20PM (#25709930)

None of your examples are existential threats to the fabric of our democracy. Put simply, they don't matter.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tenpies on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:33PM (#25709274)

I think everyone is missing the context. The technology companies don't care about anything except making sure the new Biden government doesn't regulate them.

Trump was looking into this in his final weeks so they're more than happy to pile on. Now Biden has an opportunity to extend government control into more facets of people's lives and Democrats never waste an opportunity to nudge us towards totalitarianism. The technology companies know this, so they may be making a "See? We're woke too! We agree with you - we banned all the Conservatives just like you would have anyway - no need to regulate" statement. The problem is, it may end up being a Faustian bargain.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by f430 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:00PM (#25709703)

is it possible for sitting President to order an executive order to breakup these companies that are openly challenging Trump who still has two more weeks left?

even more worrying is the Cheynne complex where Trump flew to, I have a feeling he is planning something unthinkable.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by TT3351 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:18PM (#25709902)

No; won't stop him from trying, hasn't stopped him in the past.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dragonwriter on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:12AM (#25710538)

> I guess the current consensus in the US is that it's okay for companies and medias to be arbitrators of what's wrong and what's right.

Well, if by “current” you mean “since the adoption of the Bill of Rights”, and if by “companies and medias” you mean “everyone, as to how they will use their own voice and property to promote messages”, yes, to you've correctly understood Constitutional free speech.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by f430 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:59PM (#25709680)

> A rapper sang about how to rob Chinese families because "they don't believe in bank accounts": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFxOsUe0I8o

Imagine if this was a white or asian person making a rap video about how to not rob blacks because they don't have any money. Twitter and social media would explode with rage.

Can people on HN explain why this double standard exists in America?

It's okay to punch up but not punch down. Doesn't that already say a lot about the racial hierarchy in America? Doesn't this suggest that society considers blacks to be at the bottom of socioeconomic order and need to be "protected" at a politically correct level but refuse to offer the same vigilance when it comes to their economic well being?

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