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Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
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#872This is way out of line. 5his type of control is scary.
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#873Those idiots that stormed the Capitol are bottom feeders. We all shouldn't be punished for the actions of a few nuts.
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The country went down this path as soon as the Senate refused to convict Trump. We are now at the point where we have to block violent fascists from organizing the overthrow of our democracy, and that requires deplatforming. We had a peaceful resolution to this in February of 2020, but the GOP chose this path instead.
Convict him of what exactly?
Read the impeachment papers
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BLM riots were not a direct and realistic threat to the establishment. They are scared.
Wednesday's riots were not a threat to anything either. They knew it was coming days in advance and allowed it to proceed so it could be used as a pretext for the ongoing crackdown and consolidation of political and cultural dominance (as well as splitting U.S. populist factions onto multiple platforms where they will no longer see each other).
Sorry for the delay but I've been swamped since this conflagration.
Your recent posts have been using HN primarily for political battle. Please don't do that—it's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and it's the line across which we start banning accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), regardless of which politics they're battling for. The reason is that it basically destroys what HN is supposed to exist for, which is curious conversation on a wide range of topics.
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> If 100% of that medium is controlled and censored by two companies Except you can sideload on Android.
That's a good point actually. I'm on iPhone; is distributing software via side-loading on Android actually practicle, or is it such a pain that it becomes non-workable in practice?
Yeah, on Android it's much simpler. On iOS it's still doable using AltStore, it just requires you to be on the same Wi-Fi network as your computer at least once a week to keep sideloaded apps active.
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How do you do notifications from a CRUD app on a mobile device if you can't have a native app on the device? Let's not kid ourselves. People rarely use the browser for something they really like on mobile if there is a native app. The experience is very different.
> How do you do notifications from a CRUD app on a mobile device if you can't have a native app on the device? Can't service workers/PWAs handle this? While the UI may be subpar, they still have total access to it.
On Android yes, on iOS it's not supported yet.
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#878Let me just say something.. President Donald Trump has never said or done anything to harm or throw shade at the LGBTQ+ community, yet, all the news media outlets are saying he has. He's never done anything to harm or throw shade at black people, yet you people call him a racist. I'm black and I support Trump 100%!! Yes, I'm aware this has nothing to do with the censorship but good Lord people! Call me a racist for saying something that needed to be said, go ahead. This country is the laughing stock of other countries. And it's going to stay that way unless we start to do something about it! Listen I'm all for the women's rights and BLM but this is way bigger than any of that BS. I am a black women and I have gone to every Trump rally that I can and he has never, not ONCE looked at me any different than the other white folks there. BECAUSE HE ISN'T RACIST! So pull your heads out of Ya'lls asses and pay attention to what's really going on here instead of what the media wants you to see.
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#879Wow, 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.
Neither do I but frankly it doesn't matter. People don't have what it takes to listen, to speak up, or to just stop bein idiots. They only see part of the painting, they don't see the big picture.
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That's whataboutism and conflation. It's possible to believe that BLM-related vandalism and anarchism is bad and that an attack on congress is bad. But... sorry, a direct attack on a joint session of congress that forces the lawmakers and VP to be evacuated is WORSE than what happened in Portland. This country can tolerate another bunch of fires and broken statues outside the Portland Federal Courthouse. I don't thin…
It wasn't exactly an attack; it was a bunch of protesters, trespassing into the building during a very important session. Illegal and wrong, mind you, but hardly a terrorist attack that it's being painted as. A group of kooks and extremists who should have, and could have, been kept out by proper policing. The Capitol police really screwed up. Actually in a way it's good that it happened; exposed some major security…
This sort of apologist behavior of terrorists (look up the definition, please) is quite sad.