Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
by btilly on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:52PM
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The DailyStormer got "canceled" by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets "canceled" by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence. The bar for getting "canceled" is already moving down...
I fail to see how this is a movement of the bar.
Based on these two examples, the bar seems to be that a site gets canceled if a site is used to promote violence, there is a riot, violence happens, and people return to the site to celebrate and promote future violence. That was the bar in both 2017 and 2021. Doesn't seem to have moved.
Given the fact that the attack on the Capitol was a direct attack on the US government, if anything the bar has been RAISED.
I fail to see how this is a movement of the bar.
Based on these two examples, the bar seems to be that a site gets canceled if a site is used to promote violence, there is a riot, violence happens, and people return to the site to celebrate and promote future violence. That was the bar in both 2017 and 2021. Doesn't seem to have moved.
Given the fact that the attack on the Capitol was a direct attack on the US government, if anything the bar has been RAISED.