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Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

awillen wrote: post #39
kortilla wrote: post #12

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.

And all the members of the Trump administration bravely resigning in protest when they were going to be out of jobs in less than two weeks. Patriots, truly!

They're just polishing their resumes to curry favor with the new regime.

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Post by djsumdog »

post_break wrote: post #4

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.

The purge has been happening for years. I hate how people on HN is praising this. There are literally few alternatives for the average person apart from Google and eyeProducts. I have a PinePhone, but what percentage of America can truly put in the effort to use one? If you cannot install an run your own software on a device, you do not own the device.

You cannot praise the removal of Gab or Parlor now and complain later when they take everything else from you. They can increase the Apple developer fees whenever they want. What happens when they start charging you $2,000 a year or $4,000 a year for the right to publish apps? What happens when the two big platforms decide no one can push an app unless their platform has full moderation.

What happens when Google and Apple, for your safety, say all user contributed content must go through their "spam" filter first for any apps?

This is horrific. You may not like Parlor, but it will not stop here. This is a dangerous place we are in and we should all be horrified by it. People are horrified right now, but they're focused on the wrong thing.

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Post by goldenkey »

dumbfounder wrote: post #93
marrone12 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit seems to have just as much illegal content. All of this just seems like empty virtue signaling by tech companies way too late to actually change anything.

So you are saying that they should be trying to change the political landscape to prevent things that might happen in the future? Gross.

Thought crime? Grotesque.

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Post by nathankunicki »

mixedCase wrote: post #88
viro wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, I do. To live in a bubble and not expose yourself to things you don't like is to live a life of blissful ignorance.

That may work for you, but I like to be educated and have insight.

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Post by Solvitieg »

anigbrowl wrote: post #77
blhack wrote: post #5

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%.

I didn't realize people were forced to use Parlor.

This isn't about maintaining peace on their platforms or to protect users. Its about controling all conversations, everywhere

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Post by Barrin92 »

systemvoltage wrote: post #21
roberto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Aren't these conservative principles? Like Gov shouldn't have any business in private company's affairs?

It was until liberals started to run big businesses, that wasn't supposed to happen, so now companies engaging in freedom of association is actually socialism. Those hippies and nerds weren't supposed to run the show

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Post by krastanov »

blhack wrote: post #5

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.

I do not really see how this is new or a big deal. These stores have always been walled gardens and I have never perceived them as anything resembling a public square.

Moreover, the website is accessible and nothing stops people from using it. Apps are not the internet (thankfully). Pretending that the app store is the internet just gives these companies more power.

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Post by iujjkfjdkkdkf »

post_break wrote: post #4

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.

A lot of pedants are telling you it's not censorship and they are technically correct, these private platforms are within their rights to decide how they are used. And many people have raised concerns before about what it means that we've given so much power to these platforms. I hope this goes down as the time the big platforms overplayed their hand and made people realise that even though we have turned over so much power to them, they do not have the same constraints or responsibilities as government, and as private businesses can act arbitrarily according to their prerogative.

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Post by [deleted] »

sillycon-valley wrote: post #115
betenoire wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The threats are no longer hypothetical (or FUD), we've seen what the mislead masses can and will do

Yes people cannot think for themselves, we need to make sure they cannot speak or be near us. If they make their own platform like we tell them to, we'll just ban that too, haha.

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