Don't get me wrong, I'm not into the alt-righters, but a little push-back against the Google's and Amazon's of the world can't hurt. I've seen a few to many stories of people dropped by Google on a whim.
Maybe they can start payment services as well, seems Pornhub might be looking for one in the not so distant future.
You don’t need to be into alt-righters to to know that freedom can only exist if we all have it.
I’d rather have a current-internet where people are free to host whatever controversial content they wish, than a future-internet where trillion dollar companies decide what opinions are valid.
More people need to understand this point.
Folks don't realize that we're easily corrupted by power and that sooner or later it will be abused.
It's not hard, for example, to imagine a future where Amazon and Google start labeling unions as extremist organizations and removing them from internet. That might sound far-fetched, but it would only take a handful of incidents of bad behavior by union members or organizations for tech companies to say, "Look, these organizations are inciting violence in their members."
Society is all about resolving conflicts of rights. One of those ways is that privately-owned infrastructure belongs to its owners, who get to say who gets to use it. I'm all for them deciding to use it to chuck off those who want to use it for the explicit purpose of harming others, which is fundamental to the alt-right program.
The bits and bytes of the Internet are a mishmash of private and public infrastructure, with no straightforward solution, but I'd agree that even hateful assholes deserve the ability to send and receive IP packets. But I have no problem with any private entities that refuse to help them do that.
It is only their specific political opponents who are acceptable targets for discrimination.
> I'm all for them deciding to use it to chuck off those who want to use it for the explicit purpose of harming others,
If your political identity is about harming others, then yes that poster thinks you should get booted from the internet. If your political identity is not about harming others then they're not talking about you or your political identity.
The person isn't being banned. Their activities are. This is legal, and always has been. Without it, someone could disrupt religious services with obscenity or blasphemy and there would be no recourse, to take just one example.
The above is entirely unlike discrimination against people on the basis of race or sex or orientation or religion because those are unchangeable characteristics.
Good thing it's Friday.
Epik has owned this market (at least for the US alt-right) for years, and AFAIK Parler is still hosted and registered there.