Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by andyjohnson0 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:16AM (#25713946)

If the mob that invaded the Capitol building had managed to get to the senators and representatives before they were evacuated, what do you think the mob would have done to them? I think its clear that a substantial number of them would have been murdered.

From here in Europe it looked like an improvised coup attempt. Not a coup as in taking over the country, but a coup as in decapitating part of the government.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by dash2 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:24AM (#25714439)

A coup means taking over the country. Decapitating part of the government is assassination. /pedantry

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by andyjohnson0 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:40AM (#25714541)

> A coup means taking over the country. Decapitating part of the government is assassination. /pedantry

"Definition of coup d'état

: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics

especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup%20d'%C3%A9ta...

I'm not sure pedantry contributes much in the circumstances.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by 5nlight on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:43PM (#25736451)

Riiiight... "IF" So you mean, like IF there wasn't a gargantuan 'security' apparatus in place just waiting to nip anything like that that was even remotely a _serious_ threat in the bud? (yawn..your ridiculous) hypotheticals don't work.

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