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AWS has shown they will shut you down for political reasons. Intellectually, Parler hasn’t demonstrated anything other than the fact that they don’t politically fall in line with the red scare style feeling sweeping leftist politics and its associated supportive corporations.

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Did you read the Parler screen captures in the article? They are blatently and directly calling for death and murder. Prohibiting the inciting of violence is not a political decision.

Are you telling me that Twitter and Facebook have 100% coverage on their platforms? Ha!

They're barely read, they have like 5 upvotes. You can't expect a startup with insane growth to employ hundreds of people in a week.

Why not? They set themselves up as a free speech alternative to Twitter and begged people to move off that platform en masse. They already have the experience of Gab to consider. They knew what they were getting into, and this was exactly the sort of even they were hoping for (Trump being kicked off Twitter, huge numbers of people relocating to their platform).

No, they've explicitly demonstrated that they're unwilling to moderate people making threats of violence, to a degree that Amazon is unwilling to continue to provide them with the tools to let their users make those threats.

The right to threaten people with death is, weirdly enough, not actually a right.

Citation needed. Where?

If demandinf murder is your political platform, and disallowing murder is leftist, then I guess AWS will shut you down for leftist political reasons, yeah.

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