Honest question: Who decides? How do they decide?
The same people who decide my opinion
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#12Unsure. But perhaps more important than yes or no is that the internet shouldn't be so centralized that these companies can make a choice with such a big effect.
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#13I support Apple and Google. I'm hesitantly on board with AWS and I'm worried it's a slippery slope when infrastructure companies give the boot. I then thought about other instances where I'd support it. If an AWS instance was being used to spread malware, I expect them to take it down - even though it's all just bits and cycles from an AWS perspective.
I do hope we push back hard if this ever gets out of hand.
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#14no, with caveats
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#15Not sure we want to set a precedent for tech companies getting to silence whoever they choose, but tech companies should have the power to effectively censor SOME things (child porn, for instance).
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#16unreservedly no. This is ridiculous. These people won't be happy until all sites are democrat sites saying the same thing.
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#17I have no particular comment about Parler specifically, but in the general case: Suppose you're a single-person startup of an app called "Speak!". Speak! is pretty niche, but one day, a group of the X-People are ostracized on all the popular forums: Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Because Speak! is the only remaining bastion for the X-People all of them flock to Speak!. Let's say the X-People say things that aren't e…
This isn't "things that aren't exactly popular". This is organizing an insurrection against the government and advocating for violence against groups and individuals.
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#18> please participate so that we can get a good picture of what people here think.
why would you expect an honest answer to this poll?
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#19I have no particular comment about Parler specifically, but in the general case: Suppose you're a single-person startup of an app called "Speak!". Speak! is pretty niche, but one day, a group of the X-People are ostracized on all the popular forums: Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Because Speak! is the only remaining bastion for the X-People all of them flock to Speak!. Let's say the X-People say things that aren't e…
As far as I understand, that is basically what happened to voat. Which (voluntarily) shut down about a month ago.
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#20yes, with caveats. my opinion on these kinds of topics is always the same. do I object that amazon, apple, and google have kicked hateful content off of their own properties? no. do I object that getting blacklisted by a few large tech companies is effectively getting kicked off the entire internet? very much yes.
Yes exactly it proves their "monopoly" and will invite antitrust actions in near future. So few individuals shouldn't wield so much power particularly given that they aren't elected even if in this instance they may be correct.