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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
CONFIRMED: @apple has suspended Parler.
Now that @google and @apple have suspended Parler, the only vendor left that’s doing business with them is @amazon’s @awscloud.

So far, despite some of Amazon’s employees speaking out about their work with the app, Amazon refuses to speak to the press about this.
Comment from Parler:
Unclear if @apple is going to pull their developer license, rendering the app useless on iPhones.

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11 Jan
Let’s talk about Alex Jones for a second as long as he’s saying that he coordinated the insurrection last Tuesday.

He’s monetizing himself using the some of the biggest corporations in the country.

Follow along:
If you weren’t aware, Alex Jones has an @amazon storefront. That’s right. Amazon helps a person who claims he planned the Insurrection and has harassed Sandy Hook parents. Not only that, they PROFIT from it.

They’ve continually ignored questions about this Image
Over on the Infowars site, insurrectionist and Sandy Hook parent-harasser accepts payments for goods from @Visa @Mastercard @AskAmex @Discover & @PayPal.

Seems pretty irresponsible. Image
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10 Jan
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10 Jan
It’s difficult to overestimate how much loosely moderated social platforms combined with payment platforms have created an absolute explosion of grifters who use algorithmically amplified anger to enrich themselves while destroying society.
Because of the social networks’ inability to moderate (or perhaps interest in not moderating), we are now seeing the biproducts:

Radicalized masses of people intent on burning down democracy because of disinformation and well-paid con artists furious that they’ve been made.
This is not and has never been about free speech. It’s about reach and about cash.

Reach for those who want to sway the masses in their favor politically and cash for those capitalizing on the anger that comes from it.

The platforms made it all happen.
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9 Jan
THREAD ON TONIGHT:

For four years, this account has asked social platforms to simply follow their own Terms of Service which they, themselves wrote around hate, harassment, disinformation & violent threats.

Tonight is huge, as many of the platforms are finally doing it. 1
As good as it is seeing platforms like @Twitter @Facebook and @YouTube take action on the most extreme cases, they have largely ignored these problems for years, which has led to a significant degradation in everything from democracy to personal safety, including Tuesday’s coup.2
This is not and has never been a free speech issue. These platforms are massively profitable advertising and data mining companies. They are under no obligation to provide anyone with a platform, especially violent & racist users. No one is owed a spot on these networks. 3
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8 Jan
Yesterday, we asked @AppStore and @GooglePlay to enforce their own Terms of Service on Parler based on the sheer number of violent threats on the platform with #PullParler.

Look at the VERY CLEAR terms set by these two app stores below:
These are the Terms for both user-generated and Objectionable Content as published by @Apple’s @appstore.

The threats and inability for Parler to moderate these violent threats on their app should disqualify the app instantly from the AppStore. #PullParler
Over on @GooglePlay, the Terms of Service are even more clear, forbidding both violence and hate explicitly as well as harassment on any app distributed by the store.

Again, @google has created these rules *themselves*. They should enforce their own policies. #PullParler
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7 Jan
Honest question for @AppStore and @GooglePlay.

If Parler continues to allow incitement and calls for violence, doesn’t that break your Terms of Service for apps?
More serious threats today on Parler.

These clearly break both the @AppStore and @GooglePlay terms of service for apps.
Yet more incredibly violent threats on Parler. This time to @VP Mike Pence.

Seriously...how can @AppStore and @GooglePlay continue to carry Parler with these dangerous calls to violence?

It clearly violates their Terms of Service!
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