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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.
There’s a difference between what is legal and what is morally correct.
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Parler has terms of service that prohibit calls for violence. My guess is that the moderators (I'm one) simply can't keep up with the volume.
This is true. I've previously been downvoted for pointing out that Parler does moderate, but they're a small company so it's a slow process. Parler is not the "anything goes" website that people like to conflate with Gab.
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.
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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.
Overreach is not a government specific term.
Surely there's no coordination of censorship going on.
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It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.
We spent the last four years waxing philosophical about how social media influenced the 2016 election, I think it's time to admit that these aren't _just_ private companies and there's a very real risk that this wave of censorship has far-ranging consequences.
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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.
But this corporate censorship is intolerable. And the timing it's making it particularity odious.
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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.
There’s a difference between what is legal and what is morally correct.
Also, this isn't going to be effective Parler is a website, people can just browse to it in Chrome/Safari...
We should be promoting apps that encourage and promote healthy discourse between people not echo chambers, but that's what I think is morally correct.