Parler, a social media app popular with conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump, has gone offline.
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"Parler has gone offline after Amazon withdrew its support in the wake of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot last week. The app was reliant on cloud computing power provided by Amazon Web Services. John Matze, the founder and CEO, said in a statement on Monday that the Parler app will be down “longer than expected” because other cloud hosting companies do not want to work with Parler in light of the press statements issued by Amazon, Google and Apple."
What these big tech companies are doing is outrageous -- it is flat out socialism communism fascism Orwellian government censorship.....Why didn't the radical leftist Democrats who control big Tech just allow the free markets to decide -- instead of having people like Biden and Pelosi decide who Twitter or Facebook can or can't have on their platform - why didn't they just allow the free market to decide?? -- That is the problem when you have big government get involved with what private businesses can or can't do -- you get communism....
This shouldn't be a left or right issue (except that the right should be able to dictate what the left does or can't do) --- this should be a bipartisan issue -- we should allow free markets to have control over social media, not big government -- and the best way to do that is to nationalize Facebook and Twitter and declare them public commodities and let Trump and others he appoints decide who and who can't have access -- we should also break up Google and Amazon because these corporations have been too successful at gaining a near monopoly -- and breaking up monopolies is totally a function of a free market....In fact, we wouldn't have all of these large media, pharma and agricultural corporate conglomerates if we just allowed free markets to decide...Just think how much better something like healthcare would be if we just nationalized it and declared it a public commodity like the free market demands...
Translation:
“We told you so, we degenerate beggars have been telling you for years; let Father Government take the reigns and decide for us.”
You understand that each of those companies made their own decisions, don't you?
So you are ok with every single hosting company denying them the ability to have a website?
Nobody is denying them anything. They are free to go somewhere else, or build their own site. Are you demanding somebody be forced to host them? Will you demand they bake them a cake too?
Sorry, but a wedding cake isn't a nessasary thing like being able to access the most common form of political discourse. The one baker not wanting to bake isn't stopping the wedding.
Cool...so you agree that we should nationalize Facebook and Twitter because they are too big to not be declared public commodities....
Awesome....it is definitely not a pro-free market stance, but fuck free markets when you don't get your way, right?
Nope, just regulate them as utilities and make them be political content neutral in their moderation.
Should the power company be able to deny service to conservatives?
Yea, big government stuff...got it.....
Should "big government" write their Terms and Conditions language too??
Because last I checked, that is why Trump got booted off........
Now....Trump has a perfect opportunity to put his MASTERFUL BUSINESS SKILLS to good use and create a media platform to COMPETE with Facebook and Twitter -- where there is no censorship or even better, where you can only agree with the views he has -- it may be an echo chamber, but you folks love that...and plus, you can really "own the libs" that way...
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