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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by adolph on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:28PM (#25709175)
By that standard a civil rights era sit in or march was sedition. That doesn’t seem just, but I guess there is much more work to do.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:39PM (#25709372)
Which was indeed said by opponents of civil rights at the time. And people were arrested on that basis:

> December 13th 1954: White civil rights activist Carl Braden was convicted of sedition in Louisville, Kentucky on this day. His crime? He and his wife Anne purchased a home in an all-white neighborhood and then almost immediately sold it to an African-American.

http://todayinclh.com/?event=civil-rights-activist-carl-brad...

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by adolph on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#25739846)
Its fascinating how the civil rights movement changed the enforcement of sedition law but did not lead to the repeal.
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