Twitter permanently bans Donald Trump

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Moosedrool said:
I doubt their terms with amazon agree with pulling the plug on their servers within the given time frame. Otherwise they won't be going for the "breach of contract" route.

Parler is a cesspool of crazy weird religious conspiracy nutters though. Checked it out yesterday. :sick: Looks like Alex Jones created a social media network.

Still against the purging though. It's pretty much evident that Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook are in a Mexican standoff and don't really have a choice which could risk them even more economic fall. It does get a bit different with politics since the person who cuts the feed of a mic on a democratically elected leader because they didn't like what that leader has to say will probably go to jail for treason. Regardless of whether it's a private company.
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All bets are off after your company is instrumental in aiding a violent attempted insurrection
 
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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an
effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by her Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among other sources, Parler is one of a several apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power....

Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this data tranche, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed that the raw video files include GPS metadata pointing to exact locations of where the videos were taken...
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cerebus said:
Give me a fn break. Parler is a company and Amazon is a company. You're free to do business or not do business with whomever you wish. If it helps think of Amazon as a bakery and Parler as a gay couple looking for a cake
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Except no.

Amazon isn't the corner bakery. Unless that bakery controls a third of the global baking trade and can also refuse to sell a gay couple in Australia, Chile, France, South Africa and Hungary a cake, then we are not comparing the same thing.
 
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cerebus said:
All bets are off after your company is instrumental in aiding a violent attempted insurrection
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Not really. Parler has already brought up that AWS has to give a 30-day notice period regarding the termination of services, not a 30-hour period. This is already a clear breach of contract.
 
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cerebus said:
Give me a fn break. Parler is a company and Amazon is a company. You're free to do business or not do business with whomever you wish. If it helps think of Amazon as a bakery and Parler as a gay couple looking for a cake
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You are unironically saying this after 2020, when the state forced millions of businesses to cease doing business with whomever they wish?
 
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thestaggy said:
Except no.

Amazon isn't the corner bakery. Unless that bakery controls a third of the global baking trade and can also refuse to sell a gay couple in Australia, Chile, France, South Africa and Hungary a cake, then we are not comparing the same thing.
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This isn't even what happened.

What would be a fair comparison is if the corner bakery agreed to bake the cake and on the wedding day changed their terms of service and canceled a cake already paid for.
 
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daveza said:
That's just disingenuous from Musk

Twitter is not the the de facto arbiter of free speech, but they are the de facto arbiter of free speech on their platform.
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You are not quite understanding it seems. People who hold freedom of thinking and thought as sacrosanct will be angry at anyone that transgresses it without honest reasoning. These people who for some reason still participated on Twitter will simply leave because it is not a open platform. Arguments about the rights of the company simply does not matter here, it's become as much of a strawman as publisher vs platform.
 
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cerebus said:
Does that mean they are obligated to do business with companies that violate their TOS?
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Personally I am fine with them doing it if it was honest..... problem is they still pretend to be a neutral marketplace platform making this an obvious abuse of monopoly.
 
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John is blind as a bat. - Doh. Bats are not blind and they have wings. John doesn't have wings and John wears specs.

False analogy.
 
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