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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by tw04 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:25PM (#25758114)
They had 7 weeks to clean up their act. I'm not sure that qualifies as "oops too slow".

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by thu2111 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:50AM (#25759708)
For contrast, YouTube was knowingly and illegally hosting pirated content for years before Google bought them and developed ContentID, and relied entirely on volunteer moderation (user flags) to detect it. Facebook has up until very recently relied entirely on user flags for moderation. Google web search is theoretically entirely unmoderated. And so on.

Valley firms built their financial success on being content neutral and even turning a blind eye to blatantly illegal content until they found ways to automate enforcement (or not), but are now forbidding competitors from being the same.

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by chris_wot on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:19PM (#25786593)
I don't recall Google search organizing any marches on the Capitol.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by thu2111 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:09AM (#25801745)
You don't recall Parler doing that either, because they didn't.

Now if you compare apples with apples, can you recall people using Google to research how to do bad things? Sure. Plenty of people who went to prison after police found they'd been searching for stuff like "how to hide a body" or bomb making instructions.

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by proc0 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:02AM (#25758749)
This does not read like they wanted to cooperate. 7 weeks is a nothing for a large feature. Apple gave them 24 hours which is a joke, if not an insult. Features are complex in large apps that are social networks (which in fact are dozens of apps under the hood, on the backend and frontend).

If they really wanted them to implement some content moderation, it would have been more time, not to mention a clear specification for the feature changes they want, to prevent the solution from getting rejected again.

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by chalst on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:14AM (#25759155)
Apple didn't give a reasonable timeframe to respond, but that is typical for them. The 7 weeks Amazon gave absolutely is reasonable: if this was a priority for Parler they could have put some effective measure in place.