Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

I think it is for everyone's good that they are getting censored. However, they should have known this was going to happen and take steps to make it cloud agnostic. It is just obvious.

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While I have you: if you're going to comment on this thread, or anywhere on HN, make sure you're up on the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This is a site for curious, thoughtful conversation. It is not a site for political battle, snark, or name-calling. Why? Because those things destroy curious, thoughtful conversation.

This is one of those moments where we can either raise the bar or slide deeper into the hell realms. We're therefore raising the bar. Please use the site as intended: curious, thoughtful conversation, and be kind, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are. If you can't do that (understandable, given what we're all living through), don't post until you can.

I'm banning significantly more accounts right now, especially those that have built up a track record of abusing HN. The bans are not based on political position, as anyone with the fortitude to slog through my posting history can see. No matter how right you are or feel you are, make sure you know what the rules are and follow them. In particular, do not use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. Not only is that not what the site is for, it destroys what it is for, so we have no choice but to ban accounts that do it—and so we are: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I'm going to take a guess that you've not lived under an actual regime of censorship. This is not it, and quite honestly basically all speech which threatens others is restricted. There are always limits, and just because other crossed them does not necessarily mean that restrictions are going to tighten further.

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Folks are openly discussing treason. Parler ain't moderating it. Boot gotten.

Enforcing your "don't do crimes on our hardware" TOS is not remotely "precedent" setting. Besides, that only happens in court.

Terrible precedent.

Even the argument that "private companies don't have to respect free speech", though one that seems disingenuous as most people making it weren't saying so with cases like Masterpiece Cake Shop v CCRC, holds little water when there is no public square alternative.

Because of the possibility of people saying things FAANG don't approve of, they are entirely deplatforming a platform.

How can they argue that they're anything but publishers, if they boot websites for simply having the potential to allow speech they disapprove of?