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Parler was kicked off of AWS for violating AWS’s policies.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have to tell you that YouTube and Facebook don’t use AWS.



Why were they removed from Google and Apple's app stores while Facebook, Youtube and Twitter are still available?

Twitter uses AWS for some of their stuff. Why aren't they removed for violating AWS's policies?


Do you really need an explanation of why a multibillion dollar company wasn't removed and why a fringe app was?


We just want people to admit that the reason was a lie


I don't see how we can recover and heal until the truth is admitted to. Everyone knows it to be true, but they can't admit it. Time to come clean, or continue to inflame the situation.


This is a silly conclusion.

If a gang member and a methodist get into a bar fight, do you think the fair thing is for the bar to ban both gang members and methodists?

No -- it is entirely reasonable to treat fringe groups that foster fringe ideas differently than large diverse groups.


Since the fringe people were on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube it seems like we should be banning them not Parler.


Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are a clear example of the latter group in my previous comment.


Your analogy is incorrect though.

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Parler are all bars. The gang members (insurrectionists) went to the Facebook, Twitter and Youtube bars and got into fights. The Methodist (non-insurrectionists) went to Parler and did not get into bar fights.

According to you the solution is not to ban the bars where the bar fights took place but the place where there were no bar fights. It really makes no sense.


It was a power play. One (ideologically uniform, and quite likely coordinating) group asserting raw power over another. Because it could. And in doing so, making sure this was public and messy. As a warning to others.


Your own initial comment in this thread was about AWS kicking social media platforms off of their service. That is what I am responding to.


Silicon Valley has been taken over by Methodists!!! ;-)


Why do you think it wasn't removed?




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