Deplatforming isolates people at the worst time ever, during a global pandemic. It shuts up a huge swath of the American population who need to be heard and understood. Big tech is wrong here. They are not our saviours. They are not defenders of democracy and freedom.
Please see this for what it is: groupthink on a grand scale.
Well done for showing that de-platforming is working and that it is reducing and removing 'seditious activity'. /s (It isn't.)
Must be a bitter pill to swallow, but you are simply wrong. There are few platforms that cannot be diminished, and the further out these groups are pushed the harder it becomes for them to maintain the interest of a large potential audience. While there is always a signup bump after big events (c.f. the parler and Gab bumps when some of the more egregiously intolerant Trump groups were dumped from reddit and other places) this never lasts and eventually the only group that remains on these sites is the core nucleus of nazi assholes that no one wanted in the first place.
Honest question...I literally can’t find it anywhere.
I want to know what he said to incite violence. I assume he broke the law in-doing so as it’s illegal to call for violence I think.
Private companies have TOSes. They are publishing user content and they must act for child p*rn or violence.
Go talk again with your politicians if you want to change that. There is no online court, just executives that have to uphold the law, just like everybody else
I feel like the timing is almost right, with all the emerging technologies from the past few years (matrix, fediverse etc) just reaching stability.
Despite contrary perception, web sites aren't a limited resource (like, say, newspaper distribution) that needs antitrust regulations. Parler can run its service without AWS, and individual extremists can exercise their right to free speech elsewhere, without imposing their presence where they are unwanted.
I had an interesting conversation with a Bolt driver recently, after he remarked surprise that I was a 'decent' passenger; it turns out Bolt is the app for everyone banned from Uber.
Many of the drivers work multiple apps and apparently quite a few are refusing to pickup Bolts or treating Bolts with suspicion because Bolt doesn't have the same driver protections as Uber.
When I ran a nightclub ~20 years ago we would share photos of people we had banned, so other venues would also ban those patrons. That left them to the 'trouble pubs' which were consequently heavily policed. What is happening now is no different.
Ultimately there are groups of people within society that can't behave themselves and ruin the experience of [whatever] for everyone else, and society acts accordingly.
I feel sorry for radicalized Republicans. They can be reached. Banning, deplatforming and isolating is the opposite of what we should be doing. Big tech should be creating more platforms for them, and more outlets for expression and diversification, not less.
I can even understand Twitter and Facebook banning him until the 20th to avoid another violent incident.
On the other hand, I never used Parler, but I think Amazon and other providers should not deny service to Parler, as I understand Parler is just a Platform that allows free speech. They're just killing the messenger. I don't agree with those MAGA or QAnon or Antivaxxers, but they should be allowed to discuss freely. I'm an atheist, what if someone decided atheists have dangerous ideas and they shouldn't be allowed to have a platform to discuss? If the internet existed a few centuries ago that would've definitely happened.
Also Trump had a personal crusade against Jeff Bezos, so I believe Bezos is just trying to claim some payback.
