Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by lliamander on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:01AM (#25713416)

That's actually not true: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...

“the more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by sh1989 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:56AM (#25713811)

The thing is, this doesn't actually matter. This service wasn't being used to "freely assemble" (as outlined in your source), it was being used as a tool to facilitate insurrection.

This clear and present danger was obvious, and places the imperative on supporting services to question whether they want to aid and abet sedition.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by duke252 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:20AM (#25743088)

The insurrection happened at the capitol building, not on Parler.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by lliamander on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:06PM (#25717454)

This isn't just about Parler specifically. The point is that with any of these deplatformings, it is manifestly untrue that the platforms can do whatever they want.

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