Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
by darkarmani on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:29PM
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> The tech giants this week seem to have demonstrated that they do in fact hold monopoly power in the market, and are willing to use it to crush a potential competitor. This seems to me to be an unprecedented situation, a likely anti-trust violation, and potentially to the extent that it was a coordinated action by these companies,
Coordinated? Competitor? Where do you find evidence of coordination? Why do you think parler is a competitor?
> it’s more accurate to say that Parler was a site that carried some hateful messages
Not accurate at all. Why do you think people used parler instead of twitter.
> Nuking the entire platform from orbit is not an appropriate remedy
When the entire platform resists and refuses to moderate, nuking from orbit is a fine remedy. Parler was too stupid to build alternatives into their risk profile. I think they believed their own hype.
Coordinated? Competitor? Where do you find evidence of coordination? Why do you think parler is a competitor?
> it’s more accurate to say that Parler was a site that carried some hateful messages
Not accurate at all. Why do you think people used parler instead of twitter.
> Nuking the entire platform from orbit is not an appropriate remedy
When the entire platform resists and refuses to moderate, nuking from orbit is a fine remedy. Parler was too stupid to build alternatives into their risk profile. I think they believed their own hype.