How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by igammarays on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:43AM (#25749358)

Whack-a-mole. Users will move to decentralized platforms or other providers in no time. In the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world joined Telegram, an app built by Russians.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by RIMR on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:47AM (#25749435)

This may be true, but this is a lousy excuse for tolerating Nazis on your platform.

Sure, banning a Nazi from Twitter doesn't actually kill the Nazi. They still exist, they still have Internet access, and they're still filled with hate. But at least they're not on Twitter anymore.

And when AWS sees that they're flocking to a hate site hosted on their platform, there's no reason they have to tolerate it. Sure, they'll go somewhere else, and maybe the hate site will find a new hosting provider, but at least they aren't hosted on AWS anymore.

If we have to play an constant game of Whack-a-Nazi, I vote we whack as many Nazis as we can.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by cccc4all on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#25752799)

In your worldview, how many people are Nazis? Is it thousands, Millions, Billions?

What will you do when you find out that a family member or friend or neighbor is a "Nazi"?

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by 6sup6 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:00PM (#25749706)

Will you also include communists in your game? I'm asking this because many countries had "beautiful experiences" while being governed by communists.

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