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Exactly ,,, you use a platform to call for murdering people in the name of second civil war .. well you get banned. That is the least a civilized society can do.

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I really don’t understand this mentality. Why wouldn’t you want this publicly available? You really want domestic terrorists functioning underground? Not only does this prevent people from seeing and judging and debating such an idea, but it also creates a precedent for a stronger surveillance state.

So Amazon, Apple and Google should intentionally keep Parler around as a honeypot to snag right wing terrorists and the rest of society should just pretend we don’t know how they keep getting arrested?

I think Amazon, Apple and Google should rely on the authorities to tell them what can and can’t legally be present on their platform. If something is already clearly illegal, then sure, take action immediately, but there has not been any mention of what Parler is allowing to be illegal. If it’s deemed illegal then I fully support deplatforming.

But, per your original post, wouldn't deplatforming then just be pushing it underground again? While letting it get to the point the ideas can spread and radicalize others?

I think once you’re to the point that something is illegal you’re fringe enough to where the threat is very small. There’s a big difference in the size of groups that say “we should do X” and people actually leaving their houses and “doing X”.

But the people saying "we should do X" help create the ones "doing X". When the crazy action you're contemplating also gets social acceptance and support from a group of like-minded people, all calling for it to be done, it stops seeming so crazy.

ISIS was famous for radicalizing people around the world thanks to their publicly shared content on the internet. I say we let them fester in the shadows where these awful ideas will have fewer vectors of minds to infect.

In fact, there's some research about this - https://twitter.com/asbruckman/status/1347987974177357833

It was done back in August last year, so not in response to recent events.

The findings were, essentially, it doesn't reduce the individuals toxicity; it does reduce its spread.

There are tweets from 2016 calling for Trump's assassination. When is Apple going to take down the Twitter app?

Here's just a search I did now: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump

When did Trump encourage murder? This is hyperbole.

Who said anything about Trump? Just so you haven't noticed Trump is not that important anymore.

Who said anything about Trump being important?

Lets agree to agree on this.

Agreed, but like it or not, he is the flagship of this wave of censorship. His ban was the first shot over the bow by the social media giants, if you will.

He tweeted that he wouldn't be at Biden's inauguration, a clear sign that it was okay to attack it. /s

Seriously, that was Twitter's argument for why they banned him...

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

We're talking about parler getting booted off AWS, what are you talking about?

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