Amazon to take Parler offline, the third tech giant to deplatform the rising social app in days

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (21 children)

An initial suspension is not that serious. Perler might tbe able to change its approaches and return. Amazon probably benefits from Parler. This is a very good reason to ban a social media platform:

“[W]e cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others."

Fuck Parler and others that do this.

[–]LushCanopy 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

They did not care when leftist politicians called for violence during the BLM protests though.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Big tech supported BLM through all the violence. They are on the same side. It's not the violence leftists and big tech object to, its the political positions that bother them. Facebook and twitter were both used by BLM to organize violence.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Because BLM protestors were not asked to be violent

[–]zephyranthes 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

What do you think animals are asking other animals to do when they advertize a riot? Bake cakes and fold origami?

Also, pedophiles and rapists (some with checkmarks) post specific and nonspecific death and rape threats against women on twitter/facebook/tumblr each day. A vast majority of them are allowed to stay up.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Try to be more specific.

Regarding random assholes who hate women and trans people - yes there are many who have social media accounts and are rately suspended unless they are reported to the admins.

Regarding the President of the US, he had 88 million Twitter followers and free publicity in the news media &c that helped him spread tens of thousands of lies, many of which were incitements to violence. He should be in jail, along with Senators and Republicans who have incited violence.

[–]madcow-5 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Philly’s main BLM Facebook group used burning buildings as their cover image to advertise for the May protests that quickly devolved into violence. They were specifically called out for it before it happened and sure enough, violence happened.

The suggestions to be violent were very heavy.

[–]jet199 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

You just keep lying and we'll just keep ignoring you.

http://imgur.com/a/yoC6AXI

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You don't know who 'we' are.

You use an image that is not proof of incitements to violence.

Peaceful BLM protests should continue.

[–]jet199 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's all far more extreme than what Trump has said.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Trump should be tried and hanged for treason.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

See, inciting violence.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Having someone stand trial for treason is not violence. When found guilty, his punishment should fit the crime.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mostly peaceful riots.

[–][deleted]  (3 children)

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    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government

    Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

    Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

    Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

    If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

    As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115

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      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      This is not about jail. It's about potential lawsuits

      [–]madcow-5 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      I wasn’t paying attention to Parler in the last week or two, but when I have looked at it, it’s like boomer tier conservative MSM and tweets from Republican politicians. It’s not exactly /pol.

      [–]FediNetizen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      Parler would be better off just self-hosting. They're more than large enough to have their own servers

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I wonder what the difference in cost would be. It seems Amazon is the cheapest host, and offers other potential protections against attacks and outages, due to its size:

      https://kinsta.com/blog/cloud-market-share/

      [–]FediNetizen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Amazon makes fat profits off of its AWS service. The benefit for bigger users is convenience and easy scaling, but especially for bigger clients you're definitely not saving any money.