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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Post by musicale »

I can understand why Apple might act to protect their business or to avoid liability.

The App Store is clearly a curated platform, so Apple could potentially be held liable for harmful apps that it publishes.

Moreover they are within their rights to drop any app that they don't wish to publish, or that they claim violates their terms of service – just as Nintendo can drop a game from the eShop.

It could backfire somewhat if they become viewed as unfairly censoring political opinions.

Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Post by notyourwork »

jedberg wrote: post #7

I'm not a huge fan of Parler, but hopefully this move pushes the government to force Apple to allow alternate App stores and/or side loading. People should be able to run Parler on their phone if they want to, with full API access, not the half-measures that having a web app allow.

Or the web could be what the web was intended to be, platform less. We effectively killed the notion of “web” when we doubled down on “there’s an app for everything and stopped adding hardware access to mobile browsers.

Makes me said that there’s an app to order a burger from Shake Shack for example.

Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Post by twoheadedboy »

jpxw wrote: post #23

Regardless of your political persuasion, you should be concerned about this. Massive multinational corporations having this much power over our speech is not healthy. If they can do this to a sitting President of the US, they can do it to every single one of us.

I strongly, strongly disagree. The "free and open internet" is a farce and only existed decades ago because nobody had any idea what they were doing yet.

We cannot allow people easy access to radicalization.

Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Post by lolpoliticsonhn »

user-the-name wrote: post #93

At what exact point, I wonder, will Hacker News stop complaining about slippery slopes and freedom of speech, and actually consider the possibility that they might lose a whole lot more than the ability to run an app? That they might, reasonably, lose the privilege of living in a functioning democracy? That maybe there are more pressing concerns than what apps they can run on their phones? More pressing concerns than…

While I personally disagree with any and all censorship, the real question here is who is allowed to decide the rules?

Even if we were all to agree that a specific ideology or narrative could be dangerous there is an issue with putting a central entity in a position of control.

As we have seen, rules are applied arbitrarily and even when there are defined rules, platforms continue to make any type of decision they want.

Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

mcphilip wrote: post #13

Glad I downloaded it yesterday since this was obviously an unrealistic deadline. It’s getting harder and harder to keep tabs on both sides now. Things have really fragmented in the past 24 hours: lots of posts on MeWe, Telegram, Gab, etc, looking for the “best” communication channel.

“Both sides” being people that want to hang the VP and those that don’t?
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