I'm not particularly fond of this. It's censorship. Parler wasn't doing anything illegal and Amazon had no legal reason to kick them off. I worry for the future. While I don't think the loss of parler is massive this is getting the censorship ball rolling.
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#812I'm leaning towards thinking that what happened on the 6th was, to some extent, blowback. There has been an extraordinary amount of violence over the last few years which has been ignored, rationalized, justified, and even labeled, in an Orwellian way, "peaceful". This did not gone unnoticed. There were other relevant circumstances, but I think blowback is certainly a large portion of it.
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#813This is a terrible idea. It says that "you don't need to break the law to be punished". This give the big tech companies quasi judicial powers where the grounds for punishments are arbitrary and subjective. Only the courts should be able to decide this type of thing, and I hope Parler sues Apple, Google, and especially Amazon for billions of dollars.
What if tomorrow they decide to ban and de-platform an app with 5 million users because they didn't like the color scheme the app was using (or their rising stock price...)? It opens the dangerous door to anti-competitive behavior. Today it's Parler, and tomorrow it will be you. This is a double edged sword that will cut everyone besides the big tech companies. We must not allow this action to go unchallenged.
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#814Part of what makes this situation interesting/concerning is that it's not hard to imagine that censoring unwanted or problematic speech might become technically infeasible at some point in the not so distant future. I'm not at all a crypto maximalist. However, let's assume that the technical questions about the viability of large-scale, highly performant distributed apps running on blockchains get worked out. Assumin…
Than goodness for this potential future. I think is why the blockchain is so demonized by the tech community, because it free the people from tge slavery to the large corporations that's making them money hand over fist.
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#815Can we now also expect oil companies (supposedly republican controlled) to stop supplying oil to companies stifling free speech?
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#816I'm just going to come out and say something that I've had a hard self reflective time coming to the conclusion of. I don't believe in free speech without limits. I have strongly felt that the actions taken by these companies is morally and ethically the right thing to do, for any business and that is inconsistent with believing in true free speech. My line for free speech seems to lie in speech that incites violence…
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#817Good riddance
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#818I'm just going to come out and say something that I've had a hard self reflective time coming to the conclusion of. I don't believe in free speech without limits. I have strongly felt that the actions taken by these companies is morally and ethically the right thing to do, for any business and that is inconsistent with believing in true free speech. My line for free speech seems to lie in speech that incites violence…
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#819I'm having a real hard time understanding how all the comments in the thread are in favor of this. I mean, even if you disagree with the idea of Parler, how can one willingly support this kind of censorship? "First they came for the XYZ and I didn't care because I wasn't XYZ, then they came for the ..., and then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me"
I agree with you. But I think people just want action taken after what happened in the capitol. Empathy for these rioters has gone out the window.
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#820Media wants to tell you how to think. Now it wants to take on the power to silence voices that run counter to its messaging. This is the case irrespective of whether there were incitement to violence.