Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by ardy42 on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:11PM
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> Well the fact that the riots were organized on Facebook for the month leading up to it certainly looks inconsistent.
That's misleading. While there was definitely unacceptable activity that slipped through Facebook's moderation, they were making attempts to stop it.
IIRC, a lot of the organization activity on Facebook acted as a funnel to places like Parler. E.g. a protest event on Facebook, calculated to comply with its policies, which linked to Parler or Gab where more illicit planning could take place.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by kortilla on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:21PM
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Facebook is so large that their moderator to user ratio is the same approximation as the moderator to user ratio of Parler. Parler was just more honest about not being able to realistically moderate people.
Well the fact that the riots were organized on Facebook for the month leading up to it certainly looks inconsistent.
> If Big Tech really, truly wanted to censor conservative opinions for partisan benefit... why did they wait until months after the presidential election to do it?
You mean until right after the elections that took away all of the Republican power to regulate tech? Seems like a great time to do it.