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Oh please. The insurrection we saw in DC was planned, in the open, on Parler. That is hardly legal speech and no company is obligated to host it if they don’t

by wpm 6y ago

Oh please. The insurrection we saw in DC was planned, in the open, on Parler. That is hardly legal speech and no company is obligated to host it if they don’t want to. Until you can provide me with some actual proof Apple or Google were pressured by anything but the written law to remove this crap from their stores, say, a threatening phone call from a certain ranking Congressperson or judge or member of the executive branch, I’ll call this hysterics.

newguy1234 6y ago
I'm a conservative and recall the planning of the rally. No specifics were given other than "you need to be there because it will be crazy". Everyone hyped it up from there.
- bufferout 6y ago
  You don't need to look very hard: https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-storm-t/ https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-...
dane-pgp 6y ago
It's interesting that your demand for proof requires a politician to have "pressured"/"threatened" Apple or Google, whereas to believe in Trump's culpability for what the insurrectionists did you will settle for him merely insinuating violence.
touchpadder 6y ago
Oh please. US-wide riots have been planned in the open on Facebook. In the US in 2020 hundreds(thousands) more people were killed than in 2019. In Chicago only 50% year-on-year rise, almost 300 in just one city. Looking from the other side of the pond I'm happy to not be there.
- thu2111 6y ago
  Yeah, seconded. Those aren't even riots. They are deliberate political acts explicitly stated to have the goal of wiping out the police and local government authority - how is it possible an actual "autonomous zone" was created in a major US city? And how was that not insurrection? It sure looked like it from abroad, yet local leaders rolled over and even encouraged it. Today I read the mayor of Portland was attacked whilst he was dining. The "mostly peaceful protesters" have burned his apartment building, attempted to take over police stations and court houses, and decapitated models of the mayor. He supports them anyway - it's so crazy it's impossible to believe, really. What is going on in the USA? If FB/Twitter had cracked down on the BLM organisers putting together nightly attacks on the police, at least nobody could say they were being inconsistent now. Instead they put banners up on random developer docs sites saying they support BLM. Blatant double standards.
jwond 6y ago
> Until you can provide me with some actual proof Apple or Google were pressured by anything but the written law to remove this crap from their stores, say, a threatening phone call from a certain ranking Congressperson or judge or member of the executive branch How about a tweet from a member of Congress? https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1347679332014161920 https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1347679332014161920

by wpm 6y ago

newguy1234 6y ago

I'm a conservative and recall the planning of the rally. No specifics were given other than "you need to be there because it will be crazy". Everyone hyped it up from there.

bufferout 6y ago
You don't need to look very hard: https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-storm-t/ https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-...

dane-pgp 6y ago

It's interesting that your demand for proof requires a politician to have "pressured"/"threatened" Apple or Google, whereas to believe in Trump's culpability for what the insurrectionists did you will settle for him merely insinuating violence.

touchpadder 6y ago

Oh please. US-wide riots have been planned in the open on Facebook. In the US in 2020 hundreds(thousands) more people were killed than in 2019. In Chicago only 50% year-on-year rise, almost 300 in just one city. Looking from the other side of the pond I'm happy to not be there.

thu2111 6y ago
Yeah, seconded. Those aren't even riots. They are deliberate political acts explicitly stated to have the goal of wiping out the police and local government authority - how is it possible an actual "autonomous zone" was created in a major US city? And how was that not insurrection? It sure looked like it from abroad, yet local leaders rolled over and even encouraged it. Today I read the mayor of Portland was attacked whilst he was dining. The "mostly peaceful protesters" have burned his apartment building, attempted to take over police stations and court houses, and decapitated models of the mayor. He supports them anyway - it's so crazy it's impossible to believe, really. What is going on in the USA? If FB/Twitter had cracked down on the BLM organisers putting together nightly attacks on the police, at least nobody could say they were being inconsistent now. Instead they put banners up on random developer docs sites saying they support BLM. Blatant double standards.

jwond 6y ago

> Until you can provide me with some actual proof Apple or Google were pressured by anything but the written law to remove this crap from their stores, say, a threatening phone call from a certain ranking Congressperson or judge or member of the executive branch How about a tweet from a member of Congress? https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1347679332014161920 https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1347679332014161920