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KGB-SPY said:

Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.

We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.

This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.

#speakfreely
https://parler.com/post/009ba435b68c46d4955e1cd7737fa27c

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KGB-SPY said:

Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.

We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.

This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.

#speakfreely
https://parler.com/post/009ba435b68c46d4955e1cd7737fa27c

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Biggfoot44 said:

Actually there Are relevant portions of the Federal Communications Act . Someone else will hopefully chime in with the actual cites .

But the simple version is whether such endeavors purport to be Publishers or Public Utilities . Think Newspaper vs old school phone company .

If they're Publishers , they have not only the ability , but the obligation to edit and fact check everything " published " on their whatever , and are legally liable for it .

If they are public utilities, and have no liability for anything that passes thru or upon their ( whatever ) . AND exempt from Anti- Trust laws .

The social media platforms are trying to play both ways while complying with neither .

Want to remain without liability , and Anti Trust exempt , they can't exercise editorial control .

If they want to exercise editorial control they can do so . While complying with Anti Trust , And totally being responsible for content .

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gmoney_downtown said:

Exactly. This has nothing to do with the first amendment. Nobody here would give a shit if facebook shit down some BLM page.

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“The question of media control,” Mr. Epstein says, “can only be understood by going back to the historical regulation of common carriers and public utilities.” Hale didn’t use the word “monopoly,” but instead wrote of a party “affected with the public interest,” such as a harbor with only one landing space. Its owners, he argued, had a duty to serve on terms that were fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory. “They couldn’t just charge what the market could bear, but had to face that constraint.” This notion of “rate regulation,” Mr. Epstein says, was incorporated into American law in 1876, when the Supreme Court decided in Munn v. Illinois that the state had the authority to regulate a grain warehouse’s prices.
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Unlike harbors, warehouses and railroads, social-media monopolies don’t raise an issue of rates. Their content is free. “But the nondiscrimination side of the formula is still with us,” Mr. Epstein says, “and it is that duty that’s at issue today with Trump and Twitter. And if the monopoly constraint applies, then it is not a defense to say that these companies are privately owned.”

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“But the nondiscrimination side of the formula is still with us,” Mr. Epstein says,

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Ponder_MD said:

That's the crux of it for me. It's not the deplatforming of violent conservatives that bothers me, it's the fact that these companies WON'T deplatform violent Progressives. Once you get discriminatory, the wheels fall off the argument that they're private companies and can do whatever they like.

These companies violate their on TOS every time the Ayatollah tweets.

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chujohn said:

We have SlingTV and watching news from Latin America and Spain. They thought it was dangerous to cancel Trump and dissenting viewpoints and how Google, Twitter, Facebook, and etc have become so powerful. it's really sad state of affairs when I get better and unbalanced new from foreign news sources.

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