Posted on 01/13/2021 9:15:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You are correct. Nobody can police a site perfectly. That’s why Section 230 came about in the first place: to stop the sites from being buried in lawsuits. The other shoe dropping would be that the site would be restricted to dropping out only genuinely harmful speech. Peaceable political speech is supposed to be safe.*
Interesting how Amazon only got interested in the violent content on Parler’s site (as it had a right to, being the host) after the November 3-4 Fraud-O-Rama went down.
*Stupid BI repeated Amazon’s distorted claim that Section 230 allows Parler to throw out anything it wanted to.
That wouldn’t surprise me. The Big Tech ratchet seems to only go in one direction most of the time.
I thought Twit-Er had their own infrastructure. They’re certainly big enough to do that.
The last I heard, Parler has moved to a new host called Epik, but then the CEO says that Parler may never come back. And he’s suing.
Gab, by contrast, started building their own infrastructure after Microsoft booted them following the horrible synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.
Parler plays the victim, while Gab plays the victor.
Be a victor.
I’m leaving Twit-Er immediately following the lifting of my suspension. I will follow suit on FB on Jan. 20, in a fitting tribute to our new Overlords of Questionable Legitimacy.
Yep.
Maybe overuse of flag and eagle emojis but that's about it.
Section 230 allows the stupid white guy to recite peaceable stupid stuff. I’m not sure that it extends to server hosting, however.
I don’t follow anti-Semites and other nutjobs on Social Media, so I have no idea whether Amazon is exaggerating or not.
First - Every site has this garbage posted on it. Everyone.
Second - Parler was TARGETED by Apple, Google, Twitter, and Amazon.
Third - Amazon is absolutely in breach of contract. They don’t care. They are big enough.
Fourth - Apple, Google, and Twitter did ask for moderation be put in place. It was called a “temporary suspension”. Parler told them they would rely on volunteers to moderate. Given the rapid growth of Parler that is not really a viable option.
Finally - There is a lot of blame to go around, but I never saw Parler try and work with these companies through the roadblocks. They are playing the victim for now.
Yep. They were supposed to give a 30-day notice. Instead, it was about 2 days. That's the one area in which the Parler lawsuit could succeed.
The problem for AWS is that many sites hosted by them have far worse.
“Amazon web service is i think a private company and can dictate what it allows in it’s doors.”
The Internet is not owned by them. By being a provider of Internet services it can be argued they must allow all comers and cannot be selective. Otherwise, perhaps the US Government that owns the Internet could turn AWS off. It is their Internet and AWS has no rights to it.
I just went ahead and set up my FB account for deletion. They wouldn’t let me see my notification, so I went ahead and did it.
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