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Why is Parler shut down and Facebook not?
by kerng 6y ago
Why is Parler shut down and Facebook not?
- guerrilla 6y agoBecause USians care much more about what happens in the US than in Myanmar.
- maxerickson 6y agoNo service that Facebook depends on decided to stop doing business with Facebook the way AWS decided to stop doing business with Parler. Parler built thier infrastructure in one place, with critical dependency on that provider. So when the provider booted them, they ended up having to shut the service down.
- kerng 6y agoApple and Google still have the Facebook app in their respective stores. Why not hold everyone to the same standards? Or are there differences I'm not seeing at a high level? Maybe sophistication/existence of content moderation is better?
- maxerickson 6y agoI don't have the answer to those questions. My other comment is purely mechanistic, you'd have to ask Apple why they have not booted Facebook.
- bllguo 6y agois this rhetorical? Clearly because Westerners don't care about Myanmar but do care about the US; there's nothing more to it
- pixl97 6y agoBecause the Apple and Google execs live in the US where the violence is happening. It is very easy to be concerned about an issue when it is right out your back door.
- thebean11 6y agoI thought the capitol attack was largely planned on Facebook too..