How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler (Congress, conspiracy)
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How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that operates the way you think it should.
The founders of Parler heard that suggestion and tried. In August, 2018, they created a social media platform similar to Twitter but which promised far greater privacy protections, including a refusal to aggregate user data in order to monetize them to advertisers or algorithmically evaluate their interests in order to promote content or products to them. They also promised far greater free speech rights, rejecting the increasingly repressive content policing of Silicon Valley giants...
..If one were looking for evidence to demonstrate that these tech behemoths are, in fact, monopolies that engage in anti-competitive behavior in violation of antitrust laws, and will obliterate any attempt to compete with them in the marketplace, it would be difficult to imagine anything more compelling than how they just used their unconstrained power to utterly destroy a rising competitor.
AWS says it dropped Parler because the site hosted threats, incitement and plans detailing "the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens." Parler did so little to stop it; now they complain they're being suppressed
Parler killed parler, probably shouldn't allow people to threaten people and do nothing about it.
Nobody on the Left cares about corporate censorship. For now. I can't believe people are stupid enough to think that this is OK. Yes, I realize that private companies aren't required to support free speech, but the power of social media is something our founders could never have anticipated. I don't have any confidence that our Democrat controlled federal government will do anything about it, since Dems ran on a platform of suppression of free speech (and Constitutional rights in general) and won.
Op may want to read the court filings that show that AWS had been warning Parler to clean up moderation so that they would no longer be violating their contract for seven weeks. After repeated attempts to get Parler to fulfill their contract obligations AWs canceled their contract with Parler.
Wouldn't this fall under anti-trust laws? Large, massive companies cannot conspire to take down a small competitor. Hope it gets to the SCOTUS before Biden packs it with leftists.
So you're on board with shutting down every other social media platform as well?
Ridiculous whataboutism but i'll bite.
They aren't shutdown, Amazon simply decided they no longer wanted to be in business with another entity. Now Parler has to find someone else that will host their conspiracy theories, death threats, and rape fantasy's.
Op may want to read the court filings that show that AWS had been warning Parler to clean up moderation so that they would no longer be violating their contract for seven weeks. After repeated attempts to get Parler to fulfill their contract obligations AWs canceled their contract with Parler.
They aren't shutdown, Amazon simply decided they no longer wanted to be in business with another entity. Now Parler has to find someone else that will host their conspiracy theories, death threats, and rape fantasy's.
A wall of words that means: Amazon shut them down. Thanks for playing.
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