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Re: Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

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With this and Trump’s Twitter ban, it seems there’s a level of co-ordination at play here that should be worrying to people who care about freedom of speech. And before someone tells me that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to private companies, I’m not making a legal point here, I’m making a moral one. This is not healthy.

It's unlikely to be coordination. More like is that all these companies wanted to do this, and then one went first. Or even more likely is that there was an event that caused them all to have policy meetings and that process took roughly the same amount of time at each one and they all came to the same conclusion.

Re: Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

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It’s pretty coincidental that all of these tech companies are having epiphanies simultaneously now that Democrats will control the house/senate/and presidency. The interesting question is whether they are doing it out fear of anti trust action from Democrats or weren’t doing it for the last four years out of fear of Republicans.

It’s good that corporations care about (or are afraid of) the government and public opinion. The alternative would be worse.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You realise that it’s possible for entities outside of the government to censor things, right? That word isn’t only applicable to state actions, and nor should it be.

It's legal for entities outside the government to censor things. IANAL so if I'm wrong let me know. But my understanding is that censorship is perfectly fine for any company.

Private market censorship is legal w.r.t. the first amendment. If it's good for society is a separate question.

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Wow, is this the great purge? I don’t support certain people, but man I don’t think this is going to end well. This censorship just seems crazy to me.

It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.

It's not really a free market that's why these tech companies all have anti trust investigations. This is censorship. It's just censorship lots of us agree with.

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I don't support Trump, and I don't support his supporters or what happened at the capitol. I voted for Joe Biden this year, am a big supporter of my Democrat senators in Arizona (and hope to vote for Krysten Sinema as president one day specifically). This is wrong, and this is a massive overreach. This is not the internet that we dreamed about and that many of us worked to build. Very sad day.

70% of the country is sick of being threatened by the other 30%.

Re: Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

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Wow, is this the great purge? I don’t support certain people, but man I don’t think this is going to end well. This censorship just seems crazy to me.

I don't care about private sector censorship, that is free speech in line with our constitutional ideals.

Your freedom to not listen or associate with someone is part of the First Amendment and applies to corporations as much as it applies to you.

People get to say or not say whatever they want, you get to listen or not listen to whoever you want.

A corporation you have chosen to rely on still gets to choose they want to associate with, arbitrarily even.

When the corporation messes up, we can try pressuring them into compliance with our ideals.

What the corporation did is in compliance with my ideals. Good luck with yours.

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