Parler, free speech website, taken down from the web

No. They just want the parties to comply with their contract which they clearly violated by not providing 30 days of notification. I predict that the settlement will be a enormous amount.

How did Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. take over the government without blazing guns and portly, bearded mobs?

The Unkle wrote:

oldschoollrc wrote:

It will be back once the owner gets it up on his home Linux server. Capacity might be limited, though.

I hope so.

The ,level of censorship in America exceeds any we have faced before

It very specifically states in the user agreement "you promise you will not use our technology to plan an overthrow of the U.S. government while in the thralls of a dreamy-eyed orange cult leader/business failure."

+1000

It's sad that it took 7 pages for someone to point out that it's a good thing that people are able to people should be able to publicly speak out against the government without censorship by corporate monopolies.

Pizza Joe wrote:

No. They just want the parties to comply with their contract which they clearly violated by not providing 30 days of notification. I predict that the settlement will be a enormous amount.

Maybe it's a trade of an enormous settlement for protecting citizens and property.

Pizza Joe wrote:

No. They just want the parties to comply with their contract which they clearly violated by not providing 30 days of notification. I predict that the settlement will be a enormous amount.

An amount you might think is enormous. To Amazon it will be spare change. Of course, it will be delayed and dragged out for years first. Probably settled long after Parler has gone the way of gab and become irrelevant.

Do you also want Twitter and Facebook completely shutdown? Individuals get banned for hate speech. Now you want every individual and company shut down? Maybe every telecom company should also be shut down because individuals use cell phones to text plans to one another.

DiscoGary wrote:

Back on topic. The companies protected by 230 do not have the right to censor their content without losing their 230 protections which would expose them to lawsuits over the content.

The companies colluding to shut down competitors are almost certainly breaking antitrust laws, and maybe racketeering.

Of course there is no functioning justice in this country and Dems certainly won’t hold them accountable.

And who's been in charge for the last 4 years?

I predict that they will be up and running by the end of the week. I also predict that Amazon will settle within 30 days.

Pizza Joe wrote:

No. They just want the parties to comply with their contract which they clearly violated by not providing 30 days of notification. I predict that the settlement will be a enormous amount.

Yeah, I'm sure their downtown Spokane sole practitioner lawyer will be strong arming the paltry legal defense team of Amazon into giving them billions and billions of dollars. Maybe trillions.

People are able to publicly speak out against the government, but no corporation is obligated to help them do so. How hard is that to comprehend? Besides, you still have this cesspool to spew your opinions.

Maybe because that guy got it wrong. Parler wasn't shut down because it challenged the government. It was shut down because it was not controlling speech on its site encouraging violence. Threads had popped up with the title "Hang Mike Pence!" Guess what the rioters were shouting when they stormed the capitol and went looking for him.

So how about you cut the cutesy crap and talk like you've got something to hide, okay?

Sad.

America's fury wrote:

How did Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. take over the government without blazing guns and portly, bearded mobs?

What's interesting is when a government allows free capitalism, you hand over control of so much to "the market" . You actually lose power to control the country.

But you could argue that the market is the people, so really this is just democracy in action

People wouldn't block Parker if the market didn't say so

Pizza Joe wrote:

I predict that they will be up and running by the end of the week. I also predict that Amazon will settle within 30 days.

LOL. Feel free to bump this thread when that happens.

I suspect that many people expressing outrage at this "censorship" haven't read some of the violent posts on Parler that the site declined to moderate. I'm included a link to a small collection. I'll also note that some of those posts may find their way into the impeachment evidence to demonstrate that Trump's words did tend to incite insurrection, and still do.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/parler-supporters-shout-censorship-but-check-out-what-was-actually-being-allowed-on-the-platform/

Williams Racing F1 wrote:

America's fury wrote:

How did Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. take over the government without blazing guns and portly, bearded mobs?

What's interesting is when a government allows free capitalism, you hand over control of so much to "the market" . You actually lose power to control the country.

But you could argue that the market is the people, so really this is just democracy in action

People wouldn't block Parker if the market didn't say so

The market for the most part represents money, not people. One person with a billion dollars is practically the same as a billion people with one dollar to the market.

Ron Paul kicked off of Facebook for criticizing censorship.

she aint messin with a broke broke wrote:

Cancelling Parler isn't about Trump or the riots. Trump will be gone in a few days. These are rationalizations to ban non-leftist platforms.

The left is a totalitarian collectivist movement. In order to establish the dictatorship they desire, they must suppress opposition to achieve full control of society.

Hence, they will attempt to brand anything that rebukes the their fundamental principles as racist and backwards, and worthy of censorship.

Parler was founded by libertarian types who don't support Trump, or consider him anything more than the lesser evil, and who have nothing to do with racism. Yet, the left is branding them right-wing extremists, white nationalists, Trump supporters, "conspiracy theorists," etc.

Give me a break. The left are a bunch of fascist ass hats.

The issue is obviously not with the founders of Parler, it's the users - many of whom are right wing extremists, white nationalists, Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists.

You check one of those boxes yourself if you believe the ENTIRE left is a giant "totalitarian collectivist movement" with "dictatorship" goals... Keep gobbling up the fantastical ideas fed to you by the greedy and power-hungry influencers and thought leaders in the Republican party.

Meanwhile, please show people in actual leadership (rather then the supposed Lefty boogeymen) in the Democratic party who are creating and unequivocally targeting such definite and hated villains to stir up their base with fear that leads to violence. And to be clear: that is what HAS and will continue to happen with the current out-of-control energy leading the far right, and up until now - leading their parties policy and direction.

King Tiger wrote:

Boycott Amazon

EZ

Good luck with that!