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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by wilsynet on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:30AM (#25713184)
You can watch the news and read a newspaper. You don’t need Twitter to tell you there’s a virus out there.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by josefx on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:00AM (#25713840)
The first COVID news spread over wechat, while the chinese government was still claiming that there was nothing to worry about. So yes we needed twitter and its alternatives to know about it.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by mensetmanusman on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:44AM (#25713292)
The news told these people they need to go fight in the middle east and ‘Defend Freedom’ because Saddam has nukes. That ship has unfortunately sailed.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by maccard on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:03AM (#25713428)
Tarring all news outlets with the same brush isn't helpful here. Twitter, Facebook, HN, reddit, you name it, have all had their fair share of sending an unjustified angry mob at someone.
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