Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by jowsie on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:55AM (#25714240)

You should check r/ParlerWatch, plenty of screenshots without account names blurred so you can go verify yourself that the DC Capitol raid was planned months in advance and violence was in the plan. They're currently planning a round 2 and 3 for the 17th and the inauguration. From what I've seen it's not being removed. Most posts are not from unknown low follower accounts.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by mcny on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:17AM (#25714790)

I don’t get how you can cry for free speech and ban anyone on the app who doesn’t follow the party line. There is no arguing or debating with these people.

I got banned from the Donald subreddit for saying the aclu does a lot of good things. It wasn’t spam. It wasn’t even controversial.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kortex on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:46AM (#25715046)

Congrats, you've discovered doublethink. As someone who values rationality, it truly is maddening to witness. But extremists don't use words like we use words.

Doublethink is more common with extremists regardless of bent, but what we are seeing is doublethink and eager consumption of propaganda, along with gaslighting the other side and accusing them of exactly the same. It is toxic and wears you down.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by stjohnswarts on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:34AM (#25725425)

Banning people who are calling for blowing up the capitol and hanging various politicians from the walls of the capitol building is not banning free speech, it's banning threats and treason. There's a huge difference. No one is banning a person for cursing a politician, they're banning threats of bodily harm of journalists, public figures, etc. Parler needs to moderate that garbage and they aren't. AWS shouldn't have to host that stuff in the name of free speech.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tzs on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:41AM (#25715735)

I got banned there in 2016 when someone said the left was being hypocritical for criticizing Trump’s call to make flag burning illegal but ignoring that Clinton had authored a bill to criminalize flag burning when she was a Senator.

My offense? I looked up the bill, which did indeed criminalize some flag burning and was indeed authored by her, and posted that in a comment there, along with the official bill summary and a link to the full bill.

I got banned from /r/conservative for agreeing with Ronald Reagan and the first President Bush on some issues, favoring a market based approach over regulation. I did not point explicitly mention Reagan or Bush, and the moderators nailed me for these far left opinions!

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tekknik on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:28PM (#25724031)

Do you have links to any of these posts?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by rvn1045 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:39AM (#25715708)

If everything was being planned so openly why was the security understaffed?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by jfengel on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:54AM (#25715880)

That is a very good question. Many people would like to know.

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