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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by koheripbal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:45PM (#25719549)
You are assuming that they will not ultimately form censorship resistant platforms that that will be far more dangerous than having their conversations visible to the majority.

Not only is that game of whack-a-mole unsustainable, it will lead to the creation of un-silencible platforms. ...and if they are scalable they might become the new standard.

It will be pretty sad if social media platforms are ultimately displaced by the platforms created due to their censorship.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by camillomiller on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:14PM (#25721388)
And it's a fair assumption. If they do, those platform won't have state-like power and leverage like Facebook or Twitter, and will be way easier to patrol. The real solution would be to break down facebook and regulate gigantic internet leviathans to avoid that they become more powerful than nation states. While we work on it, this might be the best solution we have to stop easy radicalization.
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