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> Child porn is illegal, hate speech (and in lots of places, "incitement") is not. Isn't "imminent lawless action" the limit of free speech? it seems clear aft

• itsoktocry 6y ago
  >it seems clear after January 6th that a part of what was promoted on Parler was both imminent and lawless. Assuming the people planning on Parler were some of the same people who stormed the Capitol then yes, absolutely. With the benefit of hindsight, this was incitement, potentially criminal. Now the tricky part: from Parler's perspective, content that at one minute is "free speech" is suddenly illegal, or at the very least ToS breaking, in a matter of hours. Were they given a reasonable amount of time to remove the content (and what good would that even do, after the fact)? Did Amazon make Parler a political target, and arbitrarily apply a rule to them that they did not apply to other customers (Twitter)? Likely, imho. Does any of it even matter if "businesses can do what they want"?