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Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store by sofixa on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:11PM (#26868029)
> This doesn’t seem sufficient to me. 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

Does the crime they believe was committed have the death penalty? If not, then calling for the death of the "criminal" is certainly not ok. ( And generally I find calling for death and the death penalty to be morally wrong, but that's another story)

Re:Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store by zepto on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:38PM (#26868234)
I think they think the crime was treason, so yes, it has the death penalty.

I don’t agree with your logic that this is necessary though. Someone can reasonably call for a higher penalty than is currently the statute, as long as it is not clearly extrajudicial.

> (And generally I find calling for death and the death penalty to be morally wrong, but that's another story)

Yes - I’m not making a claim about the morality of calling for death or the death penalty, but I am saying that if the death penalty is legal, it must be legal to call for it.