Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dang on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:15AM (#25711823)

Please stop using HN for political battle. I had to go back almost three weeks to find a post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25502390. When accounts start using HN for political flamewar, we ban them, regardless of which politics they're battling for. It's not what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by abernard1 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:09AM (#25714736)

I'm not. It's just that it happens that something relatively significant regarding politics and technology happened lately, and it's top of mind for my commenting.

I was "deplatformed"--aka fired--from my tech job a couple months ago for political views. This is not a neutral issue.

Thankfully I can retire, but not all people are so lucky. What's sad is that after 24 years of coding day and night, this issue so significant I refuse to continue to work in the tech industry. I love technology, but we're at the point where this industry isn't about technology any longer.

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