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The social media app Parler was removed from the Google Play and Apple App stores, the company’s email services and even legal services were discontinued, and last night at midnight in the Pacific, Amazon Web Services completely removed Parler after a warning period and the company effectively closed. .
According to the CEO of the company, it could take a while. Shareholder Dan Bongino however, do not think so.
The deployment of an entire platform has become an understandably big story following the violent and deadly riot at the American Capitol last week. Right, the story is about silencing conservative views and censorship by big technology.
For leftists, the media and law enforcement, the story is rather about organizing criminal and malicious activities, spreading threats and the transition of online messages to real insurgency.
If this seems like a big break, it’s probably because many people who argue that Parler was shut down because they were conservative simply did not take a good look at what was sent to Parler in the Amazon Web Services letter and informed them set of malicious information. content that the service could not moderate.
Buzzfeed posted images of some of the posts. Conservative commentator Ellen Carmichael shared them on Twitter to highlight the point.
Strikingly, it seems that the people who have the strongest opinions about Parler have not read what the * real documented reasons * are for losing their servers and accessing the store.
– Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) 10 January 2021
Do not take the people who tell you that they are censored because they are conservative. Sorry look what it’s in hot water for. It is reasonable that AWS is upset about the refusal to remove such stuff. What of this is conservatism of free speech? https://t.co/Qmy546kQDA
– Noam Blum (@neontaster) 11 January 2021
If you have not seen them yet, it is worse than you think.
Reactions to the news that Amazon is going to pull the plug have resulted in new rhetoric.
If Parler deletes the violent posts and commits to obstructing similar posts in the future, they could save their servers and access again. But their CEO says they will not do it and also have no reason to.
– Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) 10 January 2021
Since the sixth event, the topic has been big on Twitter, and users have shared many extra screenshots of the site that illustrate the point.
For example, this random image, drawn from a Tweet.
These four are from the 6th via a left Twitter account that has collected a lot of Parler information, @ParlerTakes. It’s again from the day of the attack. It was shared with the remark: “MAGA started with violence.”
There is much more.
The demand for deployment is complicated, and even the ACLU takes a less admirable stance on the actions taken by Big Tech over the past week, including the ban on President Donald Trump from Twitter and many other outlets. Understanding what content is tagged on Parler can not dismiss it. But one must know on what basis they are speaking. It’s not just ‘conservative bad’ media silence.
As for another question that is so frequently asked in the category asked, it was perhaps Noam Blum on Twitter who addressed it the shortest.
“They do not remove other calls to kill on other platforms, why then?” is a wonderful defense. https://t.co/2my2iUEKGt
– Noam Blum (@neontaster) 11 January 2021
It’s just a solid, solid response.
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