How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:43PM (#25756338)

Imminent lawless action as defined by the courts is a very high bar. It is going to be very hard for anything posted to a form of asynchronous communication to qualify short of a popular leader telling his followers to commit a specific unlawful act or specifically targeted threats made by people with the means to carry them out.

You're right that this will be damn near impossible to enforce except in the most stupidly obvious cases.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by ironman1478 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:09PM (#25756609)

I think its good that it is a high bar. A lot of stuff online isn't serious or actionable, but with this Parler situation is on the cusp IMO of genuinely being designed to promote right wing extremism. That's how this seems to be playing out at least.

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