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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by ncallaway on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:36AM (#25748199)
> Do we need to lock up Salinger for inciting violence too?

This is patently disingenuous. Twitter didn't jail the President for inciting violence. They said he wasn't allowed to Tweet anymore.

Could the publisher of Catcher in the Rye have decided to stop publishing it based on that? Yes, they could.

You're also willfully ignoring the fact that _just before_ those tweets the President had incited a violent insurrection that attacked Congress and then praised them saying: "we love you" and "you're special". As I said before, we don't have to be blind to the prior context. This reductionist thinking that we must take these two tweets entirely on their own and devoid of context isn't something I'm going to participate in.

Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by imgabe on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:02PM (#25756542)
> You're also willfully ignoring the fact that _just before_ those tweets the President had incited a violent insurrection

And we have a justice system to deal with insurrectionists and we have a democratic process with our elected representatives to remove leaders from office. This involves due process and respecting rights honed over 200 years of jurisprudence. It's not done in a corporate backroom by a couple executives with zero public accountability.

Would you be equally supportive if Twitter had deployed a private army of mercenaries to police the Capitol? What's happening here is the digital equivalent. You're busy thanking them because you support what they did. Some of us are stepping back and asking the question: wait, who controls these soldiers and what checks and balances are there on their power to police us? It turns out Twitter owns them and the checks and balances are none. If that doesn't concern you then you're missing the big picture.

Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by ncallaway on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:53PM (#25757838)
> Would you be equally supportive if Twitter had deployed a private army of mercenaries to police the Capitol?

I'm done with this conversation as it doesn't seem to be productive or in good faith.