Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store

Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store by sofixa on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:07PM (#26868004)

> You know "Whataboutism" isn't a magic word that lets you ignore an argument, right? If Twitter has extremist content (or death threats, or racism, or whatever) and isn't banned, then that is evidence that that's not the real reason for another app to have been banned

Parler were banned for refusing to properly moderate ( while having no problem with moderating any content they disagreed with), not for having hateful content. When you report similar content on Twitter or Facebook, they usually do something.

So yes, this is classic and very useless whataboutism. Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation?

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Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:13PM (#26868054)

We appear to have very different ideas of what whataboutism is. If twitter and parler are actually different, then just say that. There's no reason to dismiss the argument without meeting it.

> Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation?

And in any event, there's no reason to resort to personal attacks.

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