Shortly after Trump was wiped from the internet, Parler found themselves in the same shoes as Gab & Trump - completely wiped from the internet.
If you look for Parler.com this is the current imagery you're presented with:
While this is indeed an improvement and it's comforting to know that despite an attempt to be entirely snuffed out, people will find a way to make things happen.
What is striking and unnerving is that shortly after this ordeal happened, people were sharing a meme speaking to big tech's inability to destroy the diddlers which was immediately fact checked by Lead Stories. (Like within 48 hours fact checked as I had shared the meme as well)
Their excuse?
They're private companies and can do what they want because they aren't state actors.
While it's true the tech titans operate large swaths of the world wide web, which operates on the internet, those companies do not control all that happens on the web, West said. Critics' complaints about Amazon violating the free speech rights of people who post on Parler are off-target. "It doesn't apply because they're a private company and they have every right to take down content that they deem violates their rules."
Why Are Some Private And Some Not
Wait a moment.
Since when do private companies decide what does and does not go when it comes to legislations that do not allow discrimination?
Remember the gay cake ordeal when a Christian couple was sued for not providing a cake to a gay couple for their wedding? The civil rights commission in Colorado nailed them?
The case was decided in favor of the plaintiffs; the cake shop was ordered not only to provide cakes to same-sex marriages, but to "change its company policies, provide 'comprehensive staff training' regarding public accommodations discrimination, and provide quarterly reports for the next two years regarding steps it has taken to come into compliance and whether it has turned away any prospective customers."
Not only that, are we not currently in an alleged pandemic?
If you hit google you find find lots of examples across North America of businesses being fined. Hitting google this one popped up from September in Saskatchewan
If they're a private business should they not be able to do what they want according to the spokesperson going to bat for the big tech companies?
Instead we're seeing articles saying that 40% of small businesses in the US will be closing their doors permanently.
The same is across Canada and I would imagine places where equally harsh restrictions are in place are fairly similar too.
They claim political affiliation is not the same and it is true Federally that you are not protected against discrimination based on political affiliation but articles such as this one also say the First Amendment only protects you when it comes to the government discrimination against you.
So are small businesses private that they can't open in a pandemic and be sued for discrimination or are they government run?
Makes you wonder.
A Question Of Violence
As for restricting certain groups...
Why does this particular political discrimination based on alleged claims of violence against certain persons suddenly exempt them from being allowed to use their servers but not others?
I mean, do we not remember how many businesses were destroyed, people were killed or threats of violence were committed from the black lives matter crowd?
It was a protest gone wrong because it encouraged justice but had thousands of people join the crowd who wanted to do nothing more than pillage and destroy.
But yet black lives matter wasn't cancelled for literally inciting violence that continued for months.
Remember how politicians called for violence also?
How come they aren't cancelled?
No, instead a fact checked article from the USA Today is gaslighting us telling us these quotes were "taken out of context."
Interesting isn't it?
Porn on Amazon
Speaking of violence and the topic of porn at hand, a 2010 study found that 88% of porn analyzed in this study showed physical violence towards women.
Yet when you head to amazon and merely type in porn, you can find all kinds of porn films being sold through amazon.
Heck, you can even find films such as this one:
Imdb reviews gives this as the movie description:
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
We're gonna talk about how Trump is being violent and has to be cut from the server but Amazon really has the audacity to have this kind of stuff being sold on their platform?
To further prove the point, here's the review that comes along with the Imdb website list:
The top or “rock bottom” of this list lies 2010′s A Serbian Film. Banned in multiple countries and surrounded with controversy, the horror film really takes the cake when it comes to disturbing films. It centers on a male porn star who becomes entangled in an appalling snuff film, which features rape, incest, pedophilia, and necrophilia. One revolting scene shows a mother giving birth to a newborn baby, which is immediately raped by a man. From the “newborn porn” scene to someone getting stabbed in the eye by an erection, A Serbian Film is a movie that should be avoided at all costs (unless you’re really interested). When the film had its first showing at the 2010 SXSW, the audience was given one last chance to leave the theater due to the graphic nature they were about to witness. If a movie comes with a warning, I’d advise to watch something else. The excessive sexual violence was met with less than positive reviews, while some feel it should be locked up and hidden away for nobody else to watch.
Now how is that for a classic example of violence. It even had pedophilia in the film. And yet amazon allows it on it's server.
Going back to the Lead Stories article, it ends with saying that the banks are fixing it by cutting off payment to porn hub.
Meanwhile, those waging war on child porn recently won a battle that demonstrates the kind of control this internet meme imputes to tech companies. Bankers at Visa, Mastercard and Discover decided to stop processing payments to Porn Hub. That's the Montreal-based company that New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, in an investigative series, identified as a major distributor of child porn and rape porn.
Yup. That's it.
Only the bankers are taking down the diddlers by cutting off payments to a porn site.
The whole article addresses the fact that big tech can be monopoly corporations and can do whatever they want but visa is stopping payment to porn hub. They address the fact that no one owns the internet and that they can delete certain people or apps off their server if they break the rules but yet do not cover anything these companies e-commerce or social media websites are doing to actually stop child porn from being shared on their platforms.
At this point they're not even denying it even in their own fact checked articles.
They're just hoping people look the other way and pretend what they're doing isn't all powerful and all corrupt.