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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by GavinMcG on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:04PM (#25735630)
> From my understanding Parler has been taking down explicit calls for violence but the bar is just high.

Amazon pulled the plug specifically because they were not doing so.

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/read-amazons-letter-to-...

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by trident5000 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:07PM (#25735694)
You cant really be using a letter from the company that dropped them as a source. Of course they are going to say all of this. Twitter just recently let hang mike pence trend for a while until it was taken down. Did they act fast enough? This is all subject to interpretation. We just had a summer of riots that caused quite a bit of destruction, did they act fast enough there? Again, there isnt a science to this, its highly discretionary.
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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by GavinMcG on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:50PM (#25741248)
> You cant really be using a letter from the company that dropped them as a source.

Sure you can. That letter almost certainly was vetted by Amazon's legal department.

Not everything is a grand conspiracy.

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