Everyone saying they deserve it for "facilitating attacks on the US government", ask yourself if you believe Antifa should be kicked off of every platform they exist on for burning police stations.
This is hypocrisy. Far too much of modern tech is held by companies happy to use it as a political weapon, and all for one side. I'm disgusted by the people who populate Parler, but I'm actually afraid of these tech authoritarians.
I ran a very open forum with extremely light moderation for almost 2 decades and it started out very normal; It was spun off of famous tech bloggers website. But it eventually became overrun with the same type of people we're talking about here.
My hosting provider was contacted a few times and I always had to moderate the content, make software changes, etc. The last time I got an abuse notice from them I decided to just pack it in. What I'm saying is this sort of thing is nothing new -- it's just getting a lot of attention now.
> ask yourself if you believe Antifa should be kicked off of every platform they exist on for burning police stations.
If Antifa was planning violent actions on a platform, you can bet their hosting provider would get the same notifications and it would again be up to the provider to decide if they want that liability.
Yeah, I fully think that a social network that doesn't censor the calls to burn police stations should be banned. I don't care what side it's from, enticing violence on a large scale isn't okay.
Look at the examples from Amazon, they had single digit up votes. Amazon called them out for 98 posts over serval weeks. How many users and daily posts on Parler? I get the CEO comments but the violent content examples from Amazon seemed weak.
This is hypocrisy. Far too much of modern tech is held by companies happy to use it as a political weapon, and all for one side. I'm disgusted by the people who populate Parler, but I'm actually afraid of these tech authoritarians.