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Providers, would you host Parler?
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Do you know what the Gestapo was and did, or do you enjoy using terms you have little knowledge about?
Confirmed facts such as? And which intelligent people are those? Please provide examples -- don't leave us to guess as to what you mean.
You say you would host them if they abided by your "terms of service", and then later argue that large "private companies" (which you imply are monopolies, which they are, to an extent) shouldn't be banning platforms that refused to abide by terms of service. Remember, Parler received a warning from Apple -- which they failed to heed -- before they were removed.
Parler had to do just one thing -- abide by the ToS of Amazon, Google & Apple -- and it could run its platform. It failed, so whose problem is that? I see you have no issue hosting inflammatory content calling for harming and killing people, criminal content, essentially, but many hosts and service providers do. And its not like you can't use the app if its not on official stores, at least in Google's case.
Today I learned that my my three-year-old daughter is a habitual harasser because she ocassionally refuses to nap at the times she should.
Now that you've understood go away from the mirror and actually do it.
I'm not so sure about that, after all trump has tens of millions of Americans behind himself, plus many more millions of non-Americans like myself who are not about the person/president Trump or this or that political party but about a reasonably fair, open, and usable internet, plus even millions of democrat voters (for the same reasons).
I think many walked into a very old trap, the trap of assuming that noise level somehow equates to proportions. In reality though a massive majority of democrat biden voters are NOT liking burning city centers, looting, violence and are NOT supportive of antifa and BLM and they are also NOT supportive of extremely biased and unilateral "news", "courts", etc. But that massive majority of democrat voting Americans aren't making a lot of noise and so they are hardly seen while the super-noisy activists are all over the news.
In short, 90+% of Americans, no matter their party affiliation, want a working, fair and just system and internet - and not the perverse and extreme country a relatively small - but very, very noisy - woke minority wants.
Plus, "the internet" is not - anyway not any more - a largely US controlled thing. There are quite a few very, very rich, very powerful international carriers who wouldn't miss the chance to get immense attention (basically a massive free advertisement wave) and a very solid entry or very much solidified market position by serving those tens of millions of disgruntled Americans.
And, of course the internet monopolies just confirmed by their own actions that 230 must be changed or fall and that the country urgently needs new regulations/laws.
TL;DR Whose country shall it be then, Americans - yours, the peoples -or- that of a few large corporations and a small extreme and extremely noisy and violent crowd?
How do you define "right-wing"?
Does that make Amazon, Google, and Apple "left-wing"?
Leaked Amazon internal memo reveals new software to track unions
Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts
There is so much media bias that when a person or firm is labelled as right-wing you know it means nothing in particular. Apparently a commitment to freedom of speech and makes a person right-wing.
Owners of a companies may have political preferences, but how does that make the companies themselves a political biased entity. Do companies vote?
... and there we go (related to what I just wrote above) ...
This is a rural nowhere "ISP" with maybe 3 digit amount of customers. The email they send out (circulating on social media) is borderline illiterate and written much worse than a non-English speaking foreigner.
So about as literate as your average Parler user/domestic terrorist.
They even have the random capitalisation down
Maybe, I don't know. BUT: that doesn't change the fact that we begin to see people being badly pi__ed off.
But if it ever came to pass that they had the power and you were at the receiving end and considered a "domestic terrorist" would you still stick to your views on what's acceptable and what not? I won't hold my breath ...
weather. LOL.
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I mean, that's also highlighted
In my opinion its pretty hypocritical to ban Trump and thousands of other accounts for lies or fakenews or whatever reason they came up with while there are people out there using their service to threaten to kill every jewish person or celebrating the death of an french teacher who got beheaded on streets of Paris because he showed a caricature at school.
But I also understand if a hosting company decides not to host a site like Parler which is probably going to be it's own bubble of outraged patriots and can cause damage to the host (bad publicity, reviews, DDoS etc.).
"We do not believe in censorship so we will show this by blocking websites for you"
They seem to think best way to fight censorship is with censorship?
And seriously how long would that last? Won't be long and you will need a license to run a VPS or work in IT and it will be revoked anytime you step outside the group think.
I am Australian and looking in from outside, everyone who does not agree with crazy Nancy is extreme right wing. Time to make a stand or accept what is coming. No free speech, no small business, no right of representation, just draconian creeping laws you will either accept or pay the price for not accepting. Good luck with being a LowEnder and living in some alternate bliss
BTW as an Australian, I would be proud to be an American Trumper. He has been a great present, for the first time in years Australia is not providing support for oil wars. Our gov is now trying to bring back manufacturing. We are no longer fighting ISIS. Our fuel price has dropped along with many things. Please grow some and do not be shamed into mob thinking.
This thread has moved more into politics than about lowend hosting.