> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server. Is this link right? How about a link to an article instead? What is Parler? Why is it suspended? What is the story for those of us who are just tuning in now?
Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
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#82Wow, 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.
Something can be censorship and also free market. Don't create false dichotomies.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.
Censorship - noun the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. It is censorship. But not all censorship is bad.
> But not all censorship is bad.
pretty much all dictators agree with you on that.
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#84I 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.
Cute disclaimers. As the government is not involved at all, the overreach argument doesn't apply. edit: okay. overreach/censorship in private sector doesn't bother me. thanks. make the antitrust case if it inconveniences you too much to make an alternative.
>As the government is not involved at all, the overreach argument doesn't apply.
Is it only the government which can overreach? I'm not sure I follow your argument.
If apple hooked into my banking app and decided to lock my phone because they saw me buying marijuana, that would also be an overreach, and also has nothing to do with the government.
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#85Wow, 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.
Private companies with more power and influence than governments, and little serious competition.
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#86Good for them for not bothering with the half-assed CYA nonsense Apple is doing. "Give us a moderation plan in 24 hours" is just such a ridiculously unmeetable demand (at least if they require that plan to be anything close to actually feasible) that it's just pointless. Just kick them off. And to the people complaining about censorship, this is an app that was literally used to plan a violent attack on the capitol.…
Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. are all used to plan violent attacks, murders, burglaries and so on - all communication tools are used to do harmful acts, should we ban them all?
Crazy that people are ok with what's been happening in the last few hours
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#87It’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.
Sci-Hub also being suspended by Twitter for the farcical reason of 'counterfeiting.' I've never seen a fake paper on Sci-Hub ;-)
Remember, it's not about leftism winning per-say, it's corporatism. They are now emboldened to tighten their grasp on the narrative so they can make record profits while destroying the intellectual fabric of America.
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#88Wow, 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.
Have you been on the Donald. Win lately? At what point are we allowed to stop people from planning treason?
This is a strange comment to make, are you making an investigation of sorts or do you frequently go on websites of people you politically despise?
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#89Earlier 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.
Unless you do it to a privileged group. Then it’s discrimination.
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#90With 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.
Avalanche effect.