At no point did I express agreement with any of these things. That is what you seem to be finding in my speech that's not there. I thought explicitly clarifying might help.
Trying to read into more than what's written and using that as a basis to tell me to "be smarter" is unnecessarily rude.
My mistake for opening up a vaguely political thread on HN, I'm out.
It just doesn't make sense, unless you believe Parler is bad in some kind of way and the only way they could've been bad is political.
Not the previous commenter, but Parler absolutely did commit wrongdoing, and that wrongdoing was absolutely not political. Calls for murder and violent insurrection are not political statements!
Do twitter call our for #killallmen when that hashtag is trending?
Your double standards are so very obvious.
> There may not be an obvious monetary cost to the negative publicity, legal and other costs Parler was and would incur for Amazon, but they're costs nonetheless.
What negative publicity do you mean if not political ones from one specific point of view? For me, parler did nothing other than offer an alternative to twitter which is equal shitty.
Amazon didn't have any publicity regarding this matter until they decided, together with a lot of other megacorps to remove everything associated with parler. Now they have had a lot of publicity, which is in my view very negative since now everyone knows that if you want to host anything that support any other viewpoint than those held by american megacorps you can be removed.
I have a hard time understanding how anyone can think this is good publicity.