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If you missed it, the point under discussion is Apple having removed Parler's access to the app store (and by extension similar action taken against Parler by o
by newacct583 6y ago
If you missed it, the point under discussion is Apple having removed Parler's access to the app store (and by extension similar action taken against Parler by other providers like Amazon). Apple, Parler and Amazon are all private entities not directly constrained by the first amendment.
Why does that technicality matter? Because it eludidates the hypocrisy of trying to claim that Lin Wood's call for Pence's execution was "technically" a call for a legal trial and execution and not for the mob violence that actually resulted. Which was a ridiculous argument.
- zepto 5y ago> Because it eludidates the hypocrisy of trying to claim that Lin Wood's call for Pence's execution was "technically" a call for a legal trial and execution and not for the mob violence that actually resulted. Who do you think is trying to claim that?
- newacct583 5y agoUm... you, upthread: "Given that the US has the death penalty at all, how can we declare that it is not ok for people to call for it when they believe a crime has been committed?"
- zepto 5y agoWhy do you think that is a claim about Lin Wood?