How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by staticassertion on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:37AM (#25759295)

> This is meaningless without comparing it to how many instances of hate speech or calls for violence exist on competing sites like Twitter.

I think at most this would allow you to accuse AWS of hypocrisy, but the point is moot since Twitter, while an AWS customer, does not host content on AWS as far as I'm aware.

Really though, it has no bearing. You can argue that AWS is inconsistent in its enforcement but it does not change whether they have the right to that enforcement.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by engineer_22 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:37PM (#25769554)

I believe the argument is: AWS has the right (under current law), but that exercising this right is not always in the public's best interest.

How do we (the people) ensure good behavior?

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by staticassertion on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:42PM (#25771172)

We pretty rarely find good ways to ensure good behavior, at best finding makeshift incentive structures to encourage it.

It is very likely that those incentive structures are exactly what led to this decision, and are working more or less as intended.

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