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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nicmccool on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:14PM (#25735843)
That is the point though. The reasons cited by AWS for their actions were due to violent posts and content moderation. When addressed with the issue Parler said they'd use volunteers to proactively moderate violent posts, but AWS said that "nascent plant to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts".
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nix23 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:24PM (#25736049)
>remove dangerous content

Really disappointed in HN right now, hacking youtube videos are dangerous too no? Content is not dangerous, peoples are.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nicmccool on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:41PM (#25736399)
Youtube has paid staff whose sole duty is to remove videos that violate their TOS. Parler does not. That is the distinction AWS used in there reasonings to terminate service.
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nix23 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:49PM (#25736602)
>TOS

That's a private rule and with Amazon as big as it is, we need to have a discussion if a TOS is even legal, if you take a blind eye on that, nothing stands in the way that big company's take over everything, if you want such a world...well then welcome to cyberpunk.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by Johnny555 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:11PM (#25737063)
For large customers, the TOS is not just a click through agreement, it's actually signed as a part of an overall MSA.

I don't see how you could argue that a TOS is not legal when both parties signed and agreed to it.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nix23 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:03AM (#25760547)
>I don't see how you could argue that a TOS is not legal when both parties signed and agreed to it.

Because it clashes often with existing law, many TOS's you can simply ignore (at least in europe) and yes even when you signed it. A TOS does not stand above existing law.

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