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so why engage the platform at all? seems like the courts could easily be tasked with dealing with this.

strong agree. I don't exactly want to been seen as defending parler here. I think what amazon is doing is creating a dangerous precedent, regardless of whether parler is as odious …

I'm not exactly disagreeing that maybe parler should be taken to task, but amazon should not be the ones to do it. although, the historical application of the insurrection act has …

these are explicitly illegal activities with clearly argued jurisprudence. perhaps what parler hosted was illegal, but that should be up to a court to decide, not amazon.

which part? " may be harmful to others" ? This is a clause so broad as to cover nearly all speech.

there is first amendment precedent for shutting down speech that incites violence. why is that not enough here?

Unions come with consistent skills trainings, legal counsel, and representatives to intercede when management is treating employees poorly. This seems like a very helpful stable of…

My ISP TOS, to my knowledge, do not contain language about preventing me from retrieving otherwise legal to obtain content, do yours?

I'm not writing him off, certainly. But I also don't see how this labels him as a wrong thinker? It demonstrates that he's missed the mark a lot as a result of his over-reliance on…

Your assertion was largely that an article like this didn’t have value. I explained why it does. You are free debate the points of pg here, but that’s not how our disagreement bega…

we as in his potential audience, the public, his readers etc. I don't feel like sharing the specific motivations, that is what the piece you're commenting on is doing. I'm not taki…

I have to disagree here. The article is criticizing his work, his history of participation in a field, and his current commentary on politics. Yes, it discusses him as a subject, b…

> The actual thrust of the argument seems so broad (i.e. reliance on intuition), this could be used to label almost anybody outside pol-sci academic circles a "profoundly unserious…

Credibility and authority is incredibly important. How much time can anyone devote to dissecting the words of each living person in case they contain a potentially great idea? I'm …

I fail to see how one article being posted signals the decline of this website into a gossip column

Austerity measures are passed all the time under guises of a balanced budget or trimming fat. When govts cut food stamps people die, I think govts cutting hot showers might be doab…

> Companies have every right to ask employees to focus on work at work. I’m responding to this claim, maybe we’re talking about different things? My point is really: What if the “w…

This quickly begins to sound like a 21st century “we were only following orders” argument, no?

I think it’s more likely that smart people understand that speaking out or appearing to be in open dissent to the way amazon works is not a wise career move. Seems like a perfectly…

It comes up at work consistently in "future of the industry" kinds of discussions or when I get drinks with old coworkers and we talk about parts of our jobs we don't like. I've wo…

The tech world! Was trying to engage in dialog with the person I was responding to! You seem pretty upset so maybe chill out before engaging, have a good day!

Perhaps, but someone still has to build and maintain the automation, no?

Can you cite a source on this or explain your reasoning here, I'm a little unclear on the implication

What are you talking about? It comes out like often in my world?