Comment by freedomben
5 years ago
I would agree, but "apparently maliciously" is too subjective.
According to US conservatives this is what Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, Twilio, Snapchat, etc all did to Parler for political reasons.
According to US progressives/liberals it was absolutely not malicious, but rather the polar opposite: protecting people.
These days there is no common agreement on that stuff, and given the recent events I see no reason to believe that they wouldn't do as GP asked.
Sounds like a full inversion of terms "conservative" and "progressive/liberal" has happened?
Indeed, although I suspect it's just because of the politics here. If Parler had been a progressive/liberal haven conservatives would support censoring while progressives would be outraged at the violation of free speech.
The reason I think this is that's what happened with "private companies can do what they want." Giant corporations imposing their values on individuals is not a problem for progressives when it's big tech. Likewise Conservatives don't seem to support private property rights and no regulation anymore.