Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by dragontamer on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:41AM
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> I am defending Parlor. With a very concrete and contextual analogy.
No one is trying to get rid of cell phones anywhere in the USA. It is neither concrete nor contextual.
This Parlor de-platforming is extremely similar to the Daily Stormer de-platforming from Cloudflare. That's an actual, reality-based example I feel acceptable about discussing. There are probably many other examples.
This happened 4 years ago. There's a huge amount of historical discussion and arguments you can look up about this event 4 years ago if you like.
> EDIT: So according to you, for my argument to be relevant it has to have an actual precedent in reality? Did Nazi germany have one?
Yes. Nazi Germany counts as a historical example if you wish to use them. But since they had no internet back then, I think you'll find it difficult to find similarities to today. But give it a shot, what about the Nazis do you want to discuss?
If I'm thinking about the 1930s or 1940s, I'm thinking...
* The US Office of Censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship), which literally opened mail and censored them, as a historical example if you'd like. There's plenty of real-life examples of censorship from which you can base your argument and discussion off of.
* There's also Hay's Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code), which is probably a good 1930s example of Free-Market American Censorship being applied to Hollywood (and now that I think of it, bears some level of resemblance to the Parlor vs AWS situation).
No one is trying to get rid of cell phones anywhere in the USA. It is neither concrete nor contextual.
This Parlor de-platforming is extremely similar to the Daily Stormer de-platforming from Cloudflare. That's an actual, reality-based example I feel acceptable about discussing. There are probably many other examples.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
This happened 4 years ago. There's a huge amount of historical discussion and arguments you can look up about this event 4 years ago if you like.
> EDIT: So according to you, for my argument to be relevant it has to have an actual precedent in reality? Did Nazi germany have one?
Yes. Nazi Germany counts as a historical example if you wish to use them. But since they had no internet back then, I think you'll find it difficult to find similarities to today. But give it a shot, what about the Nazis do you want to discuss?
If I'm thinking about the 1930s or 1940s, I'm thinking...
* The US Office of Censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship), which literally opened mail and censored them, as a historical example if you'd like. There's plenty of real-life examples of censorship from which you can base your argument and discussion off of.
* There's also Hay's Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code), which is probably a good 1930s example of Free-Market American Censorship being applied to Hollywood (and now that I think of it, bears some level of resemblance to the Parlor vs AWS situation).