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Because Parler was explicitly designed to host reprehensible speech, and was not making a good-faith effort in censoring their platform. Those hosting the platf
by necrotic_comp 6y ago
Because Parler was explicitly designed to host reprehensible speech, and was not making a good-faith effort in censoring their platform. Those hosting the platform decided "nah, we don't want to be associated with this" and cut them off.
These free-speech advocates still have the ability to create mastodon instances or a listserv or something else where a company doesn't have that leverage over them. They still have options and this crying is overblown.
- atc 6y agoNo, they knew they could use this situation to eliminate a fast growing competitor. Follow the money
- SyzygistSix 6y agoI am actually comforted by the fact that people are allowed to espouse views and ideas that I personally find reprehensible. However, I do not find psy-ops to undermine our democracy by Russia and other parties to be freedom of expression, any more than they have a right to use platforms to rob a bank (something I'm grudgingly somewhat sympathetic toward).