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That's funny, it seems they were perfectly happy to try starting their own country a couple days ago.

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• nostromo 6y ago
  Autonomous zones for me but not for thee. Listen, I’m center left and oppose all this craziness. But the tech giants banning these accounts is counterproductive. Violence will increase not decrease as extremists are pushed out of the public square and into echo chambers and non-public Signal groups. “A riot is the language of the unheard” remember?
  • TulliusCicero 6y ago
    So in the interest of balance, conservative leaning apps can get away with doing whatever they want now? If left leaning apps permit the kind of violent talk that Parler does, by all means, ban those too.
    • zadokshi 6y ago
      So we are banning twitter then as well?
      • TulliusCicero 6y ago
        No. Twitter actually tries. It's no secret that Parler's ethos is largely anti-moderation, that was basically their whole brand and messaging, after all.
        • jkepler 6y ago
          But if one reads Parker's terms of service (TOS), they reserve the right to moderate illegal content, as well as claim unlimited global usage of any content uploaded to their platform. Thus while their ethos was largely anti-moderation, their TOS seems to put responsibility for their platform in their hands---at least in my non-lawyer eyes.
          • TulliusCicero 6y ago
            Right, they have a bare minimum policy, but the Android and iOS app stores have apparently higher standards for moderation that they require apps to abide by. Which completely makes sense -- when you get an app from an app store, its content partially reflects on the store itself.
  • timmytokyo 6y ago
    >Violence will increase not decrease as extremists are pushed out of the public square and into echo chambers and non-public Signal groups. I see this claim a lot, but is it true? On the one hand, some people will move into harder to find echo chambers. On the other, fewer people will be exposed to extremist content in the first place. Both factors are in play. It isn't clear which one "wins".
    • xnx 6y ago
      It's definitely not obvious that appeasement leads to better outcomes.
  • courtf 6y ago
    "an insurrection is the language of the unheard" Hmm doesn't have quite the same ring. Try this one: "We shall fight them on the beaches... we shall never surrender" Or would you prefer appeasement?
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