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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by hackyhacky on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:56AM (#25731711)
A private company cannot be authoritarian. Authoritarianism is a form of government. BLM is not anti-democracy, while those who invaded the Capitol obviously are.

If you consider the silencing of organized threats to overthrow the US government by neo-Nazis and Confederates to be acts against "conservative voices," this tells us a lot about what "conservatism" means now.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by eplanit on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#25731830)
When a private company acts in union with, on behalf of, and/or in support of the regime and its political objectives, it is part of the authoritarian system. I think you'd say the same of Twitter were it aligned with the right instead of the left.
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by StellarTabi on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:21PM (#25732168)
> A private company cannot be authoritarian.

Almost all private companies are authoritarian. Examples of non-authoritarian companies might include co-ops.

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