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by layer8 1988 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.