Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by arolihas on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:11AM (#25710515)

I don't think Parler represented half of the country’s political ideology. At least I hope not.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by shripadk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:34AM (#25710776)

You make it seem like Parler only had violent posts. I hope you don't club every member of Parler with violent extremists. And I'm talking about conservative/right wing ideology. Not Parler specifically.

Because if Big Tech is taking a moral high ground I hope it can apply the same policies to itself.

Let's start with Twitter shall we?

How about this 2018 post:

https://twitter.com/MadamePete/status/1017462143279681541?s=...

What has Twitter done to take it down?

2019 post: https://twitter.com/jcmithnoy/status/1085855272793366529?s=1...

2016 post: https://twitter.com/lil_cmb/status/765737247781949444?s=19

2018 post: https://twitter.com/DutchessOfDork/status/100553860903276953...

Can I say that just because you are on Twitter you represent a political ideology aligned with the lunatics above? Looking at the tweets above can I say "I hope Twitter doesn't represent half of the country's ideology. I hope not".

This is the biggest irony of it all. Twitter openly bans right wing accounts while not doing anything to these violent posts by left wingers. you have toxicity in both Parler and Twitter. The only difference is that the right wing toxicity that existed in Twitter shifted to Parler while the left wing toxicity remained behind in Twitter itself. This is balkanization. This isn't solving the problem in any way, shape or form.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by aluminum96 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:57AM (#25711077)

The problem is not that Parler only had violent posts -- obviously that is untrue. The problem is that Parler seemed to consider facilitating violent posts as a primary purpose, if their unwillingness to remove them is any indication.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by shripadk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:01AM (#25711127)

I just gave you proof of Twitters unwillingness to remove posts on their platform. I have reported them all months ago. None of them have been removed. There are plenty like this. As long as it suits the left-wing narrative it will be protected.

And don't even get me started on Facebook, Amazon and Instagram. These websites have promoted anti-Hindu content for years now. Keep reporting accounts and none of them are removed. It requires a massive boycott movement to get them to remove hate content. Take this for example:

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/amazon-india-hindu-sy...

"Amazon Takes Down Underwear, Doormat Listings With Hindu Symbols After India Backlash"

Why do they need a backlash to remove something that is obviously egregious?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by arolihas on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:10AM (#25716056)

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Why%20hasnt%20Obama%20be...

Not exactly partisan for Twitter to let this slip. Whereas Parler seems to ban anything that argues against the repulsive shit their users share.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dang on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:52AM (#25743313)

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. Can you please not do that? It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and it's the line across which we start banning accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), regardless of which politics they're battling for. This is because it destroys what HN is supposed to exist for, which is curious conversation on a wide range of topics.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by arolihas on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:12PM (#25750888)

Misinformation also destroys curious conversation.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dang on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:55PM (#25755829)

Ok, but that's no reason to destroy it further.

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