I don't want to live in the United States of Trump. I don't want to live in the United States of Dorsey, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Pichai. The only way out is through sweeping antitrust enforcement against the entire tech industry.
I don't want to live in the United States of Trump. I don't want to live in the United States of Dorsey, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Pichai. The only way out is through sweeping antitrust enforcement against the entire tech industry.
Their entire claim to fame is hosting the content no one else will host, but the obvious downside is no one will host you if that's your business plan.
Hosting parler with one of the Chinese alternatives would be pure irony.
Are you really telling me Mark Zuckerberg has less blood on his hands than this John Matze guy? After literal genocides were coordinated via WhatsApp?
Parler does not, and in fact their lack of moderation was their key selling point.
Rules GAFA creates do not apply to themselves.
Twitter and Facebook don't deliberately host illegal activity, and they stamp it out as best they can. Given that their have hundreds of millions of users in multiple languages posting billions of posts every day, it's a very difficult job and a lot of it requires users to report posts containing illegal activity so they can act on it. (And on that note, I have reported posts on Facebook for illegal or harassing content, and they took down those posts and acted on the offending accounts within 2 hours every time.)
I won't defend FB's or Twitter's algorithms. Based on recent reporting, it appears that internally employees are attempting to change the algorithm so hopefully something will come of that.
Parler and Gab have chosen to market themselves to groups known to engage in violent and illegal activity. Notably, moderate and liberal posts and accounts are immediately deleted or suspended on Parler, while right-leaning posts of any kind and degree of violence remain on those sites indefinitely. This indicates that Parler and Gab have the ability to moderate posts on the basis of content, and simply choose not to.
Some have suggested seeing things from their perspective, and engaging with them in some way. However, it is clear that they do not want to argue in good faith, and have become completely separated from logic and reality.
No action at all is a decision in favor of the status quo, with the obvious outcomes. What, then, is the alternative?
And while the First Amendment definitely applies to political speech, it does not apply to threats, which are a large part of Parler's stock in trade.
So what's your alternative?
Think through that a bit. There is tons of content that we remove from services constantly that isn't illegal.
I think hosting should be treated like ISPs, which cannot force you out of internet.
What's your concern? Do you think AWS should be required to host violent insurrectionists?
So, it would seem that there is a problem here. What could possible solutions be? Perhaps attempting to stem the flow of the radicalisation and brainwashing?
> Big Tech conglomerates now openly disenfranchise and deplatform millions of people simultaneously through a coordinated effort.
OK, so you don't like that approach to stopping brainwashing. What is your preferred solution?
Would you like government to instead mandate that web platforms must continue to enable the brainwashing?
There has to be a point beyond which some things are simply not allowable. In the past, societies have grown and prospered by codifying sets of standards by which others judge your behavior and then to define and apply sanctions to those who refuse to play by the rules laid down by society. This is how laws came to be passed that allow or restrict behavior widely seen by society as criminal, undesirable, dishonest, etc.
We (any group of citizens or people with a common interest) need to be able to agree upon whether something should be allowed and once that determination is made, codify the law and define appropriate sanctions or punishments for those who choose to color outside the lines.
It is generally accepted that promoting violence, advocating for murder of others because they exercise their right to vote for a different party, providing support to those whose goal is to sow dissent and to divide the citizenry using lies and propaganda, supporting Nazis or other reprehensible characters, etc is simply not copacetic and those who choose that path should face sanctions.
The very least that you should do is to silence the messenger whose goal is to destroy you, your relationships, your society. Use their own message against them to educate everyone about why the things they are promoting are wrong and unacceptable.
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