Businesses should be able to exclude anybody for any reason because that is freedom.

Oh good because Facebook and twitter are businesses

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agreed except that facebook and twitter are not like restaurants where you can just go to the next one

on a sidenote, these two platforms banned a sitting president of the united states, but the taliban can publish there no problem

What do you mean? Of ciurse I can go to the next one. Parler exists

That's a lame meme.

When the hell did Trumpers support corporations?

The main thesis of Trump getting elected was to stop corporations from shipping jobs to China.

The left can't meme.

Except when Parler gets popular. Then they shut it down.

Who is "they"? If Parler owns its own servers and is big enough they will be able to find partners to stay online.

You guys are acting like business is easy. It isn't. Parler is going to have challenges same as Amazon did before it was big, same as Facebook had before it was big. If they are actually providing a valuable service the free market will make room.

yes, however the fact that parler got shut down shows the weakness for your argument

without some serious money you cant use your own server capacities from the get getgo and then you are in the clutches of big tech again as parler has shown

you talk about a free market that does not exist anymore

big tech is shutting down this stuff due to the free market, not against the free market.

ad buyers, server hosts, and many other inbetweeners are caught up in bad press because of the content of bad sites. they complain, bad sites go bye bye.

these are market forces shutting this stuff down as much as anything. want to cry about right wing nutter conspiracies, go to facebook or twitter. its all over the place.

the free market of economics and the freedom of speech have never been compatible, the internet exposed this. u have the legal right to say w/e u want, u dont have the right to get paid to do it tho.

Oh come on, this is ridiculous. Amazon deplatformed Parler in the exact moment the site could have taken off after Trump's twitter ban, with lots of his millions of supporters incensed and looking for alternatives to twitter. It is not believable in the slightest that the concerns or complaints about bad content on Parler reached the boiling point and left AWS no other choice in this exact moment.

It was a clear-cut case of the Big Tech companies colluding and abusing their monopolistic position on their market to nip the formation of a potential rival as well as a home for their ideological enemies in the bud. Anyone who doesn't see this is willfully ignorant. Time for some trust-busting imho.