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Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
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Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#42Regardless 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.
Apple, and any other multinational corporation, is under no obligation to host inflammatory hate speech seeking to incite an insurrection against the US Govt.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#43Regardless 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.
> Massive multinational corporations having this much power over our speech is not healthy.
Who has power over my speech? I have iPhone, Android, Ubuntu, Mac and other tech. My speech is not limited in any way.
I can write down notes on paper if I want. I can write down content freely today as I could yesterday.
What corporation out there has any power over my speech, much less "too much power"?
Edit: I seem blocked by HN temporarily (for opposing viewpoints? I don't know but I can't post any more!) so to respond to the post below me here is an edit:
Trump should hold a press conference if he wants to say something. It can easily be streamed on the internet.
No president before 2007 had access to Twitter and they could still get the word out online if they wanted to.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#44Can Parler still be installed from a direct download or is this at the O.S. level?
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#45Regardless 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.
Apple shouldn't be obliged to host bile, but they have cornered themselves by being the only way to install apps.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#46I'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.
Trump likely doesn't have time (or the ability without congress) and it doesn't seem likely that congress and Biden would go after Apple for this.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#47There are already calls in congress for similar measures against OANN, Newsmax and Fox News and also calls for action by lower-level providers such as AWS.
It doesn't take much thought to see the US is going for the next few years.
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#48Glad 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.
If you want to see all the calls for violence, they are streaming minute by minute on the donald site. Some even worse things today (I had to stop reading it because it's getting to the point of super illegal).
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#49Regardless 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.
Free speech has limits, does it not? The US Supreme Court has ruled that one cannot, for example, falsely scream fire in a crowded theater.
I would assume that calls for the violent overthrow of the US government in order to overturn an election at the very least should be considered as equally dangerous as screaming fire in a crowded theater.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#50Regardless 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.
Inciting violence should not be defended as free speech. In fact it’s not considered free speech. Let alone the fact the usage being blocked violates the very clear terms of service.