Libertarian social media site Parler asks government to force private businesses to do commerce with them

Just once can Spokane be in the news for non-shitty reasons?!

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They could go with Google. Or DigitalOcean. Or any other hosting service. Or buy their own servers.

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No because Spokane is a shitty place. [Spent too many years in the area]

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yabut… Then they’d have to have some actual skills.

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An academic friend with some experience in that subject made a very nice point about it: baking a cake for a same-sex wedding isn’t a crime. Inciting violence is.

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For me personally, it is encouraging to learn how technically incompetent Parler is, as details come out around the sequential id AWS storage data breach, the downtime due to them not understanding int32 vs. int64 database column types, and so on.

Turns out if you run a hate site, you don’t exactly tend to attract the “A” team talent. Nor the “B” or “C” team…

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They’re being held back by all these parasites- they should move to some gulch somewhere were they can be surrounded by their Uber mensch peers.

Set up a social network there for the talented 1,000.

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There was a time when strategically poaching nazis was an undeniably solid R&D move; but it appears that we don’t live in it anymore.

Unsurprisingly, the glorious master race appears to have decided that simply being proud harder is preferable to being less mediocre.

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Yeah.

Where is their galt now?

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We can look it up if you have his prisoner number.

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Or sell their iPhone…

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Preaching to the choir. I live here and some of the locals scare the bejesus out of me.

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So apparently people booted from Parler are going to Telegram, which is hosted in Dubai but which is a Russian-owned company.

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“Libertarian”. Riiiight.

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It violates every religion I know of. On paper, anyway. So anyone claiming religion who is not offended is clearly claiming that religion falsely.

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So the issue is that Parler is unwilling to moderate the site to prevent people from saying “Let’s kill Hillary” etc. because that would be censoring right-wing speech? Isn’t this basically saying that planning terrorism or violence is inherently right-wing speech?

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The only true libertarians are socialists. True libertarians would seek to maximize individual liberty, which includes fighting against the impediment of individual liberty by corporations (which are NOT people). The people who claim to be libertarians, but are happy to allow corporate wage slavery (and indeed, fight to strengthen the rights of corporations to remove individual liberty) are not libertarians in any way, shape or form.

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Sorry; big “L” Libertarians have permanently ruined the label for you.

When I hear that word, to me it means rich White dudes who still want all the benefits of society only for themselves, but they also happen to smoke weed, too.

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It depends on the type of libertarian. Groups like C4SS would be extremely out of place on Parler and would likely be kicked off for being too left wing (they are roughly the libertarian equivalent to social democrats), but Hans-Herman Hoppe would fit in perfectly.

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The GOP uses it the way sane people use the word “cannibal.”

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