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Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

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@AC and @ Author Re: Thank god

Sorry got to flame the reporter who's smug attitude shows a complete lack of understand of the implications as well as being a journalist.

Since Thomas appears to be in SFO... maybe he knows something about American history.

Perhaps you can google and find: 'National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977)'

The case where SCOTUS had agreed to letting a neo-nazi mental midget organize a march down the main street in Skokie IL. I'm sure most of the readers along with the author weren't even born yet.

Here you have the Supreme Court saying that the rights of the idiot to march down the street in Skokie which was a major Jewish Community on the north side of Chicago.

It isn't saying that they agree with the Neo Nazi from Indiana but that as dumb as he is, he has the right to get him and his idiot followers approval to march down the main street.

Parler is a platform. They have the right to censor or in this case not to censor anyone on their platform as they see fit.

Because they agreed to letting Trump or anyone else sign up... they were ostracized by big tech.

While the author cheers this action on... he seems to forget the basic principles that this nation was founded on.

Perhaps the author would do the world a service by talking to lawyers about the rights of Parler and the chances of their lawsuit against AWS to succeed. And to write about the legal precedents in Parler's favor.

For those who don't understand why this was a dumb move on AWS, Apple, Google, etc ... they need to go back and take a high school civics class.

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