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I’m unreservedly no. However I have sympathy for those that made this decision: The federal government is under control of one party now - they know that Clipper Chip 2.0 is a possibility.
From the calls to violence on Facebook, to the terrorists on Twitter, to the hardcore pornography on Reddit, plenty of platforms break Apple’s, Google’s, or Amazon’s ToS. I don’t know how one could possibly argue that Parler isn’t being singled out.
Today it’s Parler. Tomorrow it will be whatever ideology the megacorps find inconvenient.
If anything, this whole saga underscores the need for decentralized social media and having control over our own devices and the apps we are allowed to install.
I’m genuinely surprised. HN is the last place that I’d expect to be comfortable with our snowball into a corporate dystopia.
BUT.
Parler should still be available via 3rd party stores if the user so chooses (which isn't possible). Here we have a case of big tech acting against the will of the user "for their own good" which I fundamentally disagree with. I own the device. I should have the right to install anything I want on it, even if the company that makes the device deemed the thing I want bad for me or for society.
Amazon should not be able to kick services off of AWS they don't agree with. That's entering cloudflare/daily stormer territory and is a dangerous precedent. I prefer the "infrastructure" layers of the stack to be net neutral.
I 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.
Only so much moderation is possible given a certain amount of moderators and company resources. Are these rules inherently biased against smaller companies?
People keep bringing up ideology. This isn’t really about ideology, this is about violence. Parler was being used to organize violence.
unreservedly no. This is ridiculous. These people won't be happy until all sites are democrat sites saying the same thing.
I 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…
They explicitly chose to retain the content