I am defending Parlor. With a very concrete and relevant analogy.
Why don't you deplatform me from HN if you disagree.
EDIT: So according to you, for my argument to be relevant it has to have an actual precedent in reality? Did Nazi germany have one?
EDIT2: I'm not using nazi germany as an example, I'm pointing out that nazi germany did not have an actual precedent in reality, yet one could have warned about escalating events at the time and, faced with your argument, one would not have been able to provide precedent rooted in history to make one's case that things were going down a slippery slope. Yet, we all know what happened.
> I am defending Parlor. With a very concrete and contextual analogy.
No one is trying to get rid of cell phones anywhere in the USA. It is neither concrete nor contextual.
This Parlor de-platforming is extremely similar to the Daily Stormer de-platforming from Cloudflare. That's an actual, reality-based example I feel acceptable about discussing. There are probably many other examples.
This happened 4 years ago. There's a huge amount of historical discussion and arguments you can look up about this event 4 years ago if you like.
> EDIT: So according to you, for my argument to be relevant it has to have an actual precedent in reality? Did Nazi germany have one?
Yes. Nazi Germany counts as a historical example if you wish to use them. But since they had no internet back then, I think you'll find it difficult to find similarities to today. But give it a shot, what about the Nazis do you want to discuss?
If I'm thinking about the 1930s or 1940s, I'm thinking...
* The US Office of Censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship), which literally opened mail and censored them, as a historical example if you'd like. There's plenty of real-life examples of censorship from which you can base your argument and discussion off of.
* There's also Hay's Code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code), which is probably a good 1930s example of Free-Market American Censorship being applied to Hollywood (and now that I think of it, bears some level of resemblance to the Parlor vs AWS situation).
Why don't you deplatform me from HN if you disagree.
EDIT: So according to you, for my argument to be relevant it has to have an actual precedent in reality? Did Nazi germany have one?
EDIT2: I'm not using nazi germany as an example, I'm pointing out that nazi germany did not have an actual precedent in reality, yet one could have warned about escalating events at the time and, faced with your argument, one would not have been able to provide precedent rooted in history to make one's case that things were going down a slippery slope. Yet, we all know what happened.