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I'd really hoped for de-escalation, but we're going in exactly the opposite direction.
Yesterday was merely a very convenient moment for all of Big Tech to start the squeeze.
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It's conspiracies all the way down for you folks isn't it?
Big Tech has collaborated to de-platform people before. Remember when Alex Jones got banned from literally everything in one day?
Was Facebook banned from app stores when shooters live streamed on their platform?
Was Twitter banned from app stores when calls for violence against Nick Sandmann were spreading?
Was Youtube banned from app stores when it was discovered that child predators were lurking in the comments and exploiting underage children?
As someone who enjoys technology and liberty this is a very disturbing development. We do not have a well diversified portfolio of options of tools and platforms for communication due to corporations monopolizing and conspiring together to concentrate power. I do not imagine that this will end positively.
Web is as open and free as it has ever been. Arguably more so given that the barrier to entry e.g. cost for creating and promoting a site has come down. And we have examples such as Parler and TheDonald.win.
You just don't have a right to demand that the Facebook and Apple's of the world help to amplify your voice.
Coordinated 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?
I mean, they could always just open their phone's browser and go to parler.com. Apps might be gone but it's not like they're unreachable.
Lately I have discovered that progressive web apps can work quite well on mobile devices, to the point that they can be undistinguishable from native apps. I wonder if PWAs will become more common as a result of the divided political spectrum.
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Big Tech has collaborated to de-platform people before. Remember when Alex Jones got banned from literally everything in one day?
You mean when he was illegally harassing victims of a school shooting?
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What treatment in particular do you think justifies calls for violence on the part of Trump supporters?
Being completely robbed of an outlet for your frustrations while people call for you to be murdered on twitter. https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
But two wrongs don’t make a right.