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by _11rr 1987 days ago
I find the particularly libertarian mindset of the hackernews audience really fascinating here. If a group of neo nazis were organizing an attack on people in a hotel room, wouldn’t the hotel be allowed to kick them out? Or the same situation with a landlord and their tenants?

People keep bringing up ideology. This isn’t really about ideology, this is about violence. Parler was being used to organize violence.
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layer8 1987 days ago
> Parler was being used to organize violence.

So are Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram, ...

IMO criminal behavior on social platforms should be investigated and prosecuted by the police and FBI etc. The same would presumably happen in your hotel analogy. Shutting them down doesn’t help with that.

In addition, social platforms of a certain size IMO should be treated more like a public infrastructure, because that’s what they effectively serve as. That’s a complex topic though.

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xvector 1987 days ago
Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook all have been used to (successfully) organize violence and still exist. They all host - and continue to host - content that violates the TOS of Apple, Google, and Amazon.

I think it takes particular mental acrobatics to say that Parler has not been unfairly singled out here.

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