Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tpirx on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:30AM (#25710723)

A protests of 1000s(tens?) of people had some unknown (be honest) number of violent actors that resulted in the death of two people. We have no means of verifying that those who committed violence did so at the behest of bad actors on any given App. We can speculate or let the media speculate for us. Speculation nonetheless.

One would think that a community so dependent on data would require it.

Would you have felt more safe at that protest or walking through a rough area of Chicago on any given day last week? [0]

Is this really worth the slippery slope we are now walking toward? I don't know. At least not yet.

[0] https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1_...

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ripdog on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:39AM (#25710838)

The internet is very big. Just because parler won't be hosts on AWS doesn't mean they won't find a host. They'll find a hosting company run by people as awful as them, just like the daily stormer did.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by gedy on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:52AM (#25711015)

It sounds like you are describing George Floyd protests too - Twitter, etc was used to coordinate. Seems like a big double standard here.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tpirx on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:18AM (#25711301)

I will assume you meant to reply to another comment because there is no double standard here. George Floyd protest were free speech and necessary.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by gedy on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:04AM (#25714698)

Not you, I meant double standard for the media's portrayal of those protests vs recent. Seem to go out of their way to call those mostly peaceful with a few bad actors, but not the other way around.

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