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Banning Parler step in wrong direction
Newsweek ^ | 1/12/2021 | Rachel Bovard

Posted on 01/13/2021 2:39:09 PM PST by annajones

Banning Parler for hate speech, but not Twitter/Facebook which does have hate speech is hypocritical.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; parkerban; twitter
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https://www.newsweek.com/after-parler-ban-rein-big-tech-now-cease-being-free-citizens-opinion-1560631

"...The rationale given by all these Big Tech behemoths is that Parler doesn't do enough to moderate the violent threats its users make on its platform. This is rich, coming from companies that host and circulate Facebook and Twitter, where violent threats proliferate on a daily basis. Twitter has even gone to court, on free speech grounds, to protect the use of its site for organizing protests..."

1 posted on 01/13/2021 2:39:09 PM PST by annajones
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To: annajones

None of them should be banned.


2 posted on 01/13/2021 2:43:06 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: annajones

Facebook posts can be totally laced with obscenities and nobody at f/b gives a crap.


3 posted on 01/13/2021 2:43:18 PM PST by George from New England
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To: annajones; Jane Long; Travis McGee; tennmountainman
I'm moving to Uganda:


4 posted on 01/13/2021 2:43:24 PM PST by 4Liberty ("Never give up the con!" -mission statement of the Left)
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To: annajones

So Newsweek’s problem with the censorship is that it should have been broader.


5 posted on 01/13/2021 2:43:52 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Williams; Jane Long; tennmountainman

6 posted on 01/13/2021 2:46:27 PM PST by 4Liberty ("Never give up the con!" -mission statement of the Left)
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To: annajones

The creation of terms like “hate speech” is the real crime. Speech is just words. This country is based on people being allowed to speak their minds. It has turned into a wussy thought crime regime second only to Hitler, if it is second at all.

When hate crimes were a added to the law, we were doomed. Hate crimes can only be used against whites. Nice work there government.


7 posted on 01/13/2021 2:48:34 PM PST by pnut22
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To: annajones

It has to be a little significant at least that Newsweek published this.


8 posted on 01/13/2021 2:50:03 PM PST by Analogisbetter
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Odds of the author disappearing?


9 posted on 01/13/2021 2:52:13 PM PST by robel
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To: Analogisbetter

Yes I agree. It’s very significant that Newsweek published this.


10 posted on 01/13/2021 2:52:36 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: annajones

Wait, what is going on here? Did Trump buy Newsweek for $1?


11 posted on 01/13/2021 2:52:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: robel

I do not think so.


12 posted on 01/13/2021 2:58:30 PM PST by Biggirl ("Iden One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians-4:6)
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To: annajones

Each day reveals more enemies lined up against the 70 million Trump voters. Now we get to build a communication infrastructure. Big tech just accelerated their monopoly’s death.


13 posted on 01/13/2021 3:16:06 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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We are now the hunted


14 posted on 01/13/2021 3:22:27 PM PST by Sonshinegirl
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Fight like you are the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s ark and its starting to rain


15 posted on 01/13/2021 3:23:40 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: JerryBlackwell

ARMED up America.


16 posted on 01/13/2021 3:30:17 PM PST by Biggirl ("Iden One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians-4:6)
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To: 4Liberty

Love it!!


17 posted on 01/13/2021 3:43:47 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow,)
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To: annajones

Anything uttered by Islam is by definition Hate Speech.

If there is Islam on the site there is hate speech.


18 posted on 01/13/2021 3:44:01 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Newsweek should be banned.

Free market, people just abandon the places that don’t confirm their bias.


19 posted on 01/13/2021 3:46:06 PM PST by Cboldt
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-- This country is based on people being allowed to speak their minds. --

WAS.

And even that is an illusion. Controlled dissent only.

Imagine the founding fathers. Violence against the king is always bad.

Of course the king says that.

20 posted on 01/13/2021 3:47:48 PM PST by Cboldt
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