Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
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Re: Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
#2Other validation:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parler.par...
Gone.
I can't find the official statement. The tech journalist is the best I could do.
Re: Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
#3Coordinated bans everywhere. Build your own platform they said.
They'll just instruct them to download the APK on their phones instead, just like Epic games did for Fortnite.
Even so, I think it will only get worse. They'll also move to encrypted chat apps instead. So when will Signal and Telegram be targeted and banned from the App Store or Google Play Store?
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#4Oddly enough, if Storm Front tried to put an app on the Google Play Store, I don’t think many would be up in arms over it being removed.
Yet when they remove an app used to coordinate the invasion of the capitol building by people with pipe bombs, molotovs, guns, zip ties, bats, etc. it’s suddenly not acceptable? An app that has people openly calling for death to US congressional leaders and the Vice President, and the president elect?
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#5This is the Night of The Long Knives 2.0.
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#6I'd really hoped for de-escalation, but we're going in exactly the opposite direction.
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#7Google and Apple just radicalized millions of people.
Re: Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
#8I'd really hoped for de-escalation, but we're going in exactly the opposite direction.
This is the issue with people who believe in unilateral nuclear disarmament: what if the other side doesn't want to disarm.
De-escalation takes 2, and Trump does not appear to be de-escalating.
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#9Oddly enough, if Storm Front tried to put an app on the Google Play Store, I don’t think many would be up in arms over it being removed. Yet when they remove an app used to coordinate the invasion of the capitol building by people with pipe bombs, molotovs, guns, zip ties, bats, etc. it’s suddenly not acceptable? An app that has people openly calling for death to US congressional leaders and the Vice President, and t…
If you were treated like how they are, you would be calling for violence too.
Re: Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
#10Is there any argument for anti-competitive behavior here? It's weird because Google/Apple don't directly compete with Parler or other alternate social media sites, but they are clearly in the same bed with those who do, Facebook, Twitter.
For instance Jack Dorsey recently admitted that his employees coordinate with employees at the other big tech companies on moderation actions.
I'm just wondering what if any legal courses these actions could take?