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Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for
by skuthus 6y ago
Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not oppose simply because of its popularity among the left.
Instead, we are left with mega corporations being the arbiters of their own platforms, Just like those supporting deregulation wanted.
- weaksauce 6y agothe stuff they were posting on parler was probably illegal[0][1] and parler specifically didn't moderate their violent or seditious rhetoric. (though they did moderate anything that didn't align with their groupthink) 0: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/rioting-and-inciting-riots.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/rioting-and-in... 1: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/sedition.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/sedition.html
- snowflake_ptr 6y ago> parler specifically didn't moderate their violent or seditious rhetoric Citation needed - this is an extreme claim.
- weaksauce 6y agoi know the dead comment below won't see this and likely doesn't care but for posterity they were absent in their moderation for many weeks and were knowledgeable of it from the get go: https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/1349371372384841730 https://twitter.com/cambrian_era/status/1349371372384841730