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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by MichaelMoser123 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:48PM (#25709517)
I don't understand something: wouldn't that be extremely bad for twitter? i mean they need subscribers for pushing their advertising, or so i was told.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by jedmeyers on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:23PM (#25709969)
Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:12AM (#25711230)
I think they are fighting for survival, they might be taking this court action that was pushed by some ten republican states very seriously - this case has a strong legal basis. I suspect that its all business.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-su...

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