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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by hrktb on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:12AM (#25744715)
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable.

Or imagine not being able to use the banking system because banks don't like you're dealing with legal weed ?

Or getting cut from payment processors as a sex worker ?

Unthinkable, right.

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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by pjc50 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:24AM (#25744814)
Came here to post this. None of the arbitrary denial of service is new, it was just deployed against people without power. The right were completely fine with deplatforming sex workers through SESTA/FOSTA. I'm happy to see all the egregious machinery of things like the Patriot Act (unaccountable air travel blacklists!) being turned on the right for a change instead of just the left - because this time it's the right that's the terrorist threat.

I think it was only last week that we had somebody banned from github for simply logging in from Iran.

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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by throwaway69123 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:54AM (#25745124)
This is also wrong
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