Yeah, right, keep telling that to yourself. You claim that Parler was leaving flagrant violations of the terms of service of their web hosts unaddressed for months. Then why did the moment AWS et al. decided to finally pull the plug on them occur at the exact same moment Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook and threatened to take a big chunk of their Republican-leaning users with him? What a """""strange""""" """"""""""""""""""""""coincidence""""""""""""""""""""!




Of course you cannot force private companies to host particular speech. You can, however, break up monopolies or trusts.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 5 2022 05:40pm

how can 12 rando twitter blacks be a threat to white supremacy

I think the easier explanation is that Parler was already on their radar as a shit stain they'd like to get rid of, and when Trump and the capitol riot happened it gave them an excuse to pull the trigger. I highly doubt there was some secret chat where they all said "Okay, ban him now" in unison.

We know they had informed Parler multiple times of the violations for instance.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jan 5 2022 06:30pm

Canon

This was the moment when political tensions were at their climax and the right-wing third or so of the country was maximally outraged about big tech censorship and media manipulation. And you're saying the folks in Silicon Valley deemed this the most opportune moment to add deplatforming on top of the deletion/cancellation/censorship/silencing of conservative voices?

Also, the big tech companies must have been aware that a lot of the Republican lawmakers were really incensed about being silenced and that this further escalation would turn them into their explicit enemies. They must also have known that Republicans would eventually regain power in Washington. All in all, this line of reasoning doesn't make sense unless the decision-makers at some of the biggest and richest corporations on the planet are either utter fools or living in a truly insane bubble.

The richest corporations on the planet don't really care who's in power. They will not face real consequences even if Republicans get in office.

You are working under the assumption that Republicans, as a party, can actually accomplish things legislatively. They can't.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jan 5 2022 06:43pm

So you admit that all the slogans about "Republicans being a threat to the rights of black and brown people/healthcare/women's rights/the climate/democracy itself" are just drivel?

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 5 2022 06:47pm

Nope. Because those things aren't usually accomplished on the federal level by legislative action.

Dude just stop lying, promoting violence, and being racist....it isn't that hard. If it's required to lie and/or be racist and/or promote violence to be conservative, then the movement deserves to be destroyed. People who don't engage in those things aren't censored.