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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jan-2021 01:24:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   I'm hearing that #Google and #Apple are removing the apps for the #Parler #socnet from the #Android PlayStore and the #iOS AppStore.
   
   I'd argue that given their duopoly on mobile operating systems, the power to arbitrarily kick someone out is scary (regardless of how deserving Parler might be; I'm not even sure I've seen a screenshot of the site). I'd argue that this is evidence that the mobile OS and app store groups of both companies need to be split up, so that competition can come ... including strong competition for mobile app stores on each platform.
   
   Again, Parler may deserve it, especially if their users used the socnet to organize their insurrection attempt. (Though I suspect many of them probably used odious #corpocentric sites like #Twitter or #Facebook, which are not being punished.)
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jan-2021 03:50:30 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     • GeniusMusing
     This has been a long time coming.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jan-2021 17:53:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     • GeniusMusing
     @geniusmusing They’re right. No matter how much someone may prefer free speech, others who host it will have to impose limits.
     
     I saw someone recently complaining about a proposal to filter (default: on) search results for rooms on a chat platform and I thought:
     1. There are legal restrictions for online content. As a platform expands into other nations, they gain more restrictions.
     2. If extremist and offensive results are not hidden by default, normal users leave, rendering the platform useless except as a forum for the most extreme and anti-social people.
     
     If #Parler is supposed to be completely unfiltered and unmoderated, they’ll find that the number of countries where they can safely operate is small.
     
     Again, I’ve never seen the site, so I don’t know whether the content is potentially illegal or just differs politically from what the mobile appstores like. If this is mostly just a political purge, the people rejoicing should be defending them—the axe tends to swing against former allies with the same effect it wielded when swung against opponents—but I don’t think most people look at the long term implications of these things.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 23:04:14 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     meh, is Parler on fdroid?
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 23:07:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Not as far as I am aware, but even though I heard of Parler a few months ago, I have heard (and written) the name more in the past few days than in the rest of my lifetime combined, so I’ve never looked for it.