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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by oceanplexian on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:13PM (#25734567)
If I could find 98 examples of users calling for violence on Twitter would you advocate for Twitter being de-platformed? Why or why not?
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by r00fus on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:52PM (#25736655)
Twitter has a program. At that point, it's about the upstream provider having some CYA on process and Twitter's ability to follow through.

Parler's response was a casual finger back to Amazon, and the response was a swift boot.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by Server6 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:32PM (#25734953)
If Twitter wasn't willing to at least attempt to moderate then yes. What's going on here isn't new. Web hosting services have been dropping hate speech platforms and forums since the internet began.

The real problem is that is seems like the hate speech/Qanon wing of the right side of the political spectrum has the loudest voice and it's ruining it for actual conservatives.

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