Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
by newacct583 on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:05PM
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If you missed it, the point under discussion is Apple having removed Parler's access to the app store (and by extension similar action taken against Parler by other providers like Amazon). Apple, Parler and Amazon are all private entities not directly constrained by the first amendment.
Why does that technicality matter? Because it eludidates the hypocrisy of trying to claim that Lin Wood's call for Pence's execution was "technically" a call for a legal trial and execution and not for the mob violence that actually resulted. Which was a ridiculous argument.
Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
by zepto on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:40PM
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> Because it eludidates the hypocrisy of trying to claim that Lin Wood's call for Pence's execution was "technically" a call for a legal trial and execution and not for the mob violence that actually resulted.
Who do you think is trying to claim that?
Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
by newacct583 on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:14PM
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Um... you, upthread: "Given that the US has the death penalty at all, how can we declare that it is not ok for people to call for it when they believe a crime has been committed?"
Who is making such demands?
> because AKSHOOALLY
Do you intend this as respectful discussion?
> the first amendment constrains only the government and not my right to publish what I want on my hardware.
Sure, but it not clear how that is relevant to the comment you are replying to.