How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by necrotic_comp on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:27AM (#25748057)

Because Parler was explicitly designed to host reprehensible speech, and was not making a good-faith effort in censoring their platform. Those hosting the platform decided "nah, we don't want to be associated with this" and cut them off.

These free-speech advocates still have the ability to create mastodon instances or a listserv or something else where a company doesn't have that leverage over them. They still have options and this crying is overblown.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by SyzygistSix on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:17PM (#25755398)

I am actually comforted by the fact that people are allowed to espouse views and ideas that I personally find reprehensible. However, I do not find psy-ops to undermine our democracy by Russia and other parties to be freedom of expression, any more than they have a right to use platforms to rob a bank (something I'm grudgingly somewhat sympathetic toward).

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