> If your going to argue with a straight face the this new situation is the same as Parler

Just go reread what gp wrote. He basically said the exact opposite of this. You are putting words in his mouth and interpereting his comment in the least charitable way possible.

Op said they there is nothing else in common.

They are in the same boat as parler in the sense that another communication platform not owned by a big corp is being targeted and removed.

Matrix likely will come back for some of the reasons you mention . But fact is google and apple arbitrarily without warning or notice remove apps from their store. The stores should be considered utility like electricity google should not able to refuse service randomly.

> parler in the sense that another communication platform not owned by a big corp

Parler is owned by the Mercer family, of Renaissance Technologies fame, one of the most successful hedge funds in existence. They are personally worth tens of billions of dollars.

Still not even close to the trillon+ worth of google or apple.

Also just cause they worth billions means they will back parler with billions. Parler itself is pretty small fish financially speaking

Do you have any sources supporting your statements here? This feels like fake news to me.

A large portion of these protests were planned on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/13/faceboo...

...should they be removed and silenced because of it? Or should all of these gigantic tech companies with the checkbooks to provide exhaustive moderation enjoy their 230 powers while denying the right to all of the little guys?

Parlor and Gab are fairly harrowing examples of what happens when censorship occurs. People leave platforms with diverse views and head to echo chambers. Those folks end up having stronger, more radical opinions because they were forced into a corner.

No one has ever given me any compelling reason for censorship. Hate is defeated in the open, it is fairly impossible to deal with in private channels. Censors also cannot censor everything, so content always slips through the cracks.

> Accounts on Parler called for and planned violence against elected officials for months. Executives at the company spoke often and publicly supporting that content.

Did not know this, you have a source for this?

No, Parler executives did not “speak often publicly supporting planned violence against elected officials”. They would have been arrested already if this was that clear of a trail.

It turns out it was Facebook that was used for planning.

> No one wrote anything about the capitol being under attack or people storming the capitol[.]

Because no one attacked or stormed the capitol during those protests.

I don't know what to say. For weeks people were roaming the streets, smashing windows, cars, beating people up, etc.

???

The Capitol is a literal building in Washington DC, which is the seat of the United States legislative. Even if it _was_ true that "people were roaming the streets smashing windows" when Trump was elected, no one was storming the Capitol building, which is why no one wrote anything about people storming the Capitol...