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That’s what you think would happen. Lin wood had a call to execute pence up for over a week. Not till apple threatened to remove Parler from the store was it deleted.

Policing is out, we talking about the same people who failed to activate the national guard allowing the siege of our capital.

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> Lin wood had a call to execute pence up for over a week. Not till apple threatened to remove Parler from the store was it deleted.

I don't think it should have been deleted at all. Let concerned citizens sue Lin wood (whoever that is) and present his threat as evidence. Why should we expect people's words to be deleted from a public platform?

If nobody sued him, or went to the police, maybe it wasn't a real threat. Or maybe it wasn't illegal. Who are we to judge? Let the "neighbors" take it to the police and to the courts.

I really wish today's social platforms functioned like Slashdot. Their philosophy was to never delete anything posted by users, unless compelled by a court of law. That's the right thing to do.

What you are saying is equivalent to "the state is incapable of defending our values so we make ourselves the police". What do you think that implies?

So are you saying the businesses should be forced to server other businesses? That runs counter to capitalism which is a value of our country.

I'm saying that Amazon is neither the police nor a judge.

As a public company, their terms of service are as questionable as EULAs that no-one reads. I don't think (know) if they were ever tested in court. But it's about time they do.

Are you suggesting police and courts are not executing laws in USA?

We’ll find out in the impeachment and what pardons come out this final week.

In case you missed it, there was an entire summer of demonstrations complaining that the police will not enforce the law against other police.

I wholeheartedly hope the state police and state judges will enforce justice on all of those who committed crimes.

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especially when crimes were committed by some incopetent judge/policeman.

Impartial justice? That would be great. Preferably without having to have a huge demonstration to get people who killed someone else on video prosecuted.

I'm not sure what do you mean, where I live there are cases of people who had been prosecuted without valid reason and was sentenced to years in jail. Such situations are awful since innocent human being was put through suffering and by the system which should protect innocent people. But this is not rule that governs juridical system, people do make mistakes - you cannot judge whole system by mistake made by random Joe, no system would stand such test. I prefer to be judged by state judge than by angry crowd or self appointed police. Mainly because even state judge and police are accountable for their actions, whereas crowd or self appointed guards may be difficult to find after actions are done.

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