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To all the HN users defending Parler by drawing false equivalencies to BLM, the NYTimes, Saudi Arabia, and China, without acknowledging the events of The last f
by tmpz22 6y ago
To all the HN users defending Parler by drawing false equivalencies to BLM, the NYTimes, Saudi Arabia, and China, without acknowledging the events of The last few months: shame on you.
Parler and it’s moderator team , as well as Donald Trump, has supported COVID denial, the election fraud conspiracy, and Q conspiracy, for over a year. This was a concentrated effort to brain wash American conservatives to completely distrust and disassemble the institutions of American democracy. I don’t know if you are from other countries and do not realize the context and severity of these actions, or if you’re troll accounts wishing to sow the same discord on HN. It won’t work.
This isn’t a first amendment of free speech issue. This is a lifesaving step for the public commons.
You can still have conservative values. Nobody got banned for supporting lower taxes, states rights, or being anti-abortion. You can promote and discuss those on Twitter Facebook and AWS on any day of the week. What you cannot do is organize thousands of individuals to commit violent acts, or call for and attempt the murder of rightfully elected public officials not just on January 6 - but again on Inauguration Day. That is why this disgusting content, on the same level of snuff porn and child porn, had to be purged from the internet.
- ookblah 6y agoseriously. millions of conservatives are still on twitter/fb with no censorship. some of the biggest conservative "celebs" built their audiences on twitter and benefit from the outrage machine. it's so hilariously out of touch and ironic to me that they are criticizing these actions uncensored and then trying to make slippery slope arguments or play the persecuted minority. what happened to parler is the exception, not the rule.
- 6sup6 6y agoThey are in twitter as long as they don't step the line. Try to misgender someone in twitter to see what happens. The idea of misgender comes from a very specific political tribe in certain western countries.
- tmpz22 6y agoName a single fox pundit who properly uses gender pronouns. They're all still on twitter.
- XiJinpinggg 6y ago> What you cannot do is organize thousands of individuals to commit violent acts, or call for and attempt the murder of rightfully elected public officials not just on January 6 - but again on Inauguration Day. Democrats called for violence against Trump and Republicans for years and they encouraged the blm riots for months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGKKHVt7pI&feature=emb_title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGKKHVt7pI&feature=emb_titl...
- MichaelRazum 6y agoJust one remark about your COVID denial president. He got the vaccine way faster then Europe. Especially Germany where the vaccine was developed as well. Not sure how many would be saved if Germany ordered in the same way.