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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by weaksauce on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:36PM (#25736276)
To extend on that... the entire premise of parler was that everyone was censoring them too much(for similar calls for violence) so they needed a platform that was immune from that. well when your entire premise is flawed from the start it's not a stretch to see that they would be targeted from that like stormfront.
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by waheoo on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:05PM (#25738037)
That's a stretch.

Millions feel censored and diminished.

You don't get to the level parler got purely because the few extreme users felt censored.

You saw a minority of users taking free speech too far.

This wasn't Amazon, Google's or Twitter's place to act. This was a job for the police and the FBI and really the fact they intervened at all is just so fucking American.

World police that nobody bloody wants.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by skuthus on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:52PM (#25738907)
Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not oppose simply because of its popularity among the left.

Instead, we are left with mega corporations being the arbiters of their own platforms, Just like those supporting deregulation wanted.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by weaksauce on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:37PM (#25739789)
the stuff they were posting on parler was probably illegal[0][1] and parler specifically didn't moderate their violent or seditious rhetoric. (though they did moderate anything that didn't align with their groupthink)

0: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/rioting-and-in...

1: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/sedition.html

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by weaksauce on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:07PM (#25767283)
i know the dead comment below won't see this and likely doesn't care but for posterity they were absent in their moderation for many weeks and were knowledgeable of it from the get go: https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/1349371372384841730
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