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>I don't know if people trying to argue that twitter is just as bad as Parler are doing it out of ignorance of the issues or just bad faith.

The thing is, Trump never ever called for riots. You have to read between the lines and ignore his history of being anti-riots and go for a bad faith interreption to even consider him having called for what happened.

Flipside,

How many celebrities were calling for the death of the maga hat kit? They got away with it.

Iranian's Khamanei has outright called for jews to be exterminated. Various other middle eastern leaders have called for gays to be killed. They are outright double standards.

Regardless, it was very clear Trump was to be banned. At the end of the day it's very interesting how all these tech companies came together to ban not trump but vast array of their supporters. So far the known count for Twitter is >200,000 trump supporters.

At all 200,000 inciting violence? Does the USA really have that many people looking to overthrow the government?

>They're being dropped by AWS, Apple, Google etc because they allow, even encourages its users to conspire to commit violence and assassinate public officials.

So the entire platform is to be removed because of some content. More specifically, if someone wants to destroy a platform, they need only have bots spam comments and therefore the platform goes offline?

>The main reasons its users went to Parler in the first place is because they weren't allowed to do that on twitter and reddit.

No, that's not accurate at all. there were millions of users on parler. Many of which weren't even american nor care what was going on.

This is at best a rationalization for shutting down the platform.



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