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verwyrelevant

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verwyrelevant··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Those things are for judges to decide, not an Internet mob (or militant employees of Big Tech).
verwyrelevant··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Isn't the whole point of this "deplatforming" to stop incitement?
verwyrelevant··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
What is legal speech or not should be decided by courts, not some activists working for Big Tech or outsourced moderators working for $1 an hour.
verwyrelevant··on Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube
They were assault zip ties, though.
verwyrelevant··on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom Banned from YouTube
It's probably a page that was created 10 years ago by the idealistic nerds who created YouTube. I think reddit started with a similar ideology before falling back to the ideology that you could express anything as long as it is broadly fitting the views of progressive North Americans.
verwyrelevant··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
Elizabeth Warren still has on her campaign website a section where she calls the US election system a joke:

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/strengthening-democracy

>The harsh truth is that our elections are extremely vulnerable to attack: Forty-two states use voter registration databases that are more than a decade old. Laughably, in 2019, some still use Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Twelve states still use paperless machines, meaning there’s no paper trail to verify vote counts. Some states don’t require post-election audits. And ten states don’t train election officials to deal with cybersecurity threats. This is a national security threat, and three years after a hostile foreign power literally attacked our democracy, we’ve done far too little to address it.

I mean, even this very place always had a history of distrusting voting machines, etc.

verwyrelevant··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
There was a story about a lady tweeting something like "kill all white men" on Twitter. She got cancelled, but Twitter is still here obviously.
verwyrelevant··on Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
This comic is very relevant to your point:

http://stonetoss.com/comic/build-big/

Don't complain when it starts happening.