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Can't yelll fire in a theater. -- aint2Hokie4me 01/11/2021 5:31PM I'd say it's more you can't open a theater that serves as home base to a -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 5:48PM Well, I think we now know which Sabre posters had Parler accounts. ** -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:21PM There is no right to free speech on a private website. ** -- SixerHoo 01/11/2021 5:09PM If you are going to make this point, a better framing would be suppressing -- RML Hoos 01/11/2021 5:01PM I would say advocating violent revolution is no less than yelling fire -- 111Balz 01/11/2021 5:25PM By the way, did you read the interview at Reason with the -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:03PM Not yet, will look for it. ** -- RML Hoos 01/11/2021 5:12PM I'll be interested. It's a fairly long interview. Well worth reading -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:13PM Sentence fragment -- TomGlansAski 01/11/2021 4:58PM Big lies told time and again are still lies. -- Chuck Taylor 01/11/2021 4:53PM Charleston, you think it would be less “fascist” if the Trump admin tried -- hoolstoptheheels 01/11/2021 4:43PM So...you're Antifa now? ** -- Beerman 01/11/2021 4:43PM Mussolini and Hitler loved it. Did you have someone else in mind? ** -- Slider 01/11/2021 4:37PM Lame take. Care to expand?** -- THECZAR 01/11/2021 4:35PM LOL. It's as free as the free market gets -- Fuzzy Dunlop 01/11/2021 4:33PM No free speech has been canceled ** -- 111Balz 01/11/2021 4:25PM More like market forces prefer to cancel fascists from their private -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:23PM TOS agreements don't care about your feelings. ** -- BDF444 01/11/2021 4:13PM Can you elaborate? Which free speech has bee cancelled? -- Capital City Hoo 01/11/2021 4:05PM I would say take a good look at what is happening and ask yourself, would -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:13PM Not a fan of the free market, I see. ** -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:00PM Oh i am -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:06PM How is this any different from being fired from your job -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 5:17PM Here is how i would say it is different -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:32PM Why is censorship legal then? -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 5:37PM Im sure there are a ton of things that go into it that i dont know about or -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:45PM Does it bother you that you can see any cig adds on TV anymore? -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 6:06PM Banning curse words is actually included here: -- ftwuva 01/12/2021 09:55AM With cursing I am talking -- Zhoo 01/12/2021 09:59AM Yes i realize that, but i dont think it is protected as shown in the -- ftwuva 01/12/2021 10:01AM There's no "maybe" about it. That is *exactly* what happened. ** -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:41PM I havent read articles to know exactly what happened -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 5:42PM Then surely AWS has a right to decide who to do business with, no? ** -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:09PM The ACLU has issues with this situation. i thnk that kind should ring an -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:26PM Read my post below about the ACLU. You don't seem to understand how they -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:27PM Read mine. i do and i think its an important caveat to the this situation -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:41PM Twitter has lost 5 billion in market value since it banned DT..... -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 5:46PM Could you please get smart enough to understand that -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 4:57PM That is just a sad retort ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:02PM Well boo hoo then new hoothat** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:03PM LOL this is very very sad -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:13PM Again. Just boo hoo. New hoothat. Gonna pull an all nighter -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:17PM New hoothat!?! Oh the irony. Do you not recall the ongoing brawl between -- hoolstoptheheels 01/11/2021 5:25PM Gonna make that next meeting at Burger King on Broad very different. ** -- Hoodafan 01/11/2021 5:33PM Starbucks for me:) ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:37PM Of course it is, you latte liberal. :-) ** -- Hoodafan 01/11/2021 5:39PM Maybe shen would actually show up ;) ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:34PM Are you still arguing that Amazon is violating someone's freedom of speech? ** -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:17PM What does any of that have to do with Fascism? ** -- Beerman 01/11/2021 4:37PM LOL- please tell me you're joking? -- Capital City Hoo 01/11/2021 4:31PM I think anyone inciting violent protest on social media is fire in a -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:44PM Are you suggesting that there's some kind of basic right to social media? -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:02PM You sure about that? AWS "owns" half the internet right? there are only so -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:15PM If you, Parler, or the ACLU want to bring monopolization claims against -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:20PM Amazon did not claim Parlar was, itself, inciting violent protest. -- Beerman 01/11/2021 4:56PM What about this? -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:00PM I think it assumes something that might not be real -- Beerman 01/11/2021 5:11PM I dont disagree with this one at all. i am all for neutrality and kind of -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:28PM "Free speech" only applies to state action. This is capitalism, baby. -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:25PM Then we should just cancel twitter and all social media by that definition -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:31PM If Twitter decided it wanted to ban all political speech on its platform, -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:35PM My point is you and so many appear totally fine with parler being completel -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:46PM I don't think conservative content is the reason they are being shut out of -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:53PM If everyone on parler is acting that way, burn it down. but as i understand -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:58PM The problem is that Parler violated its terms of service with AWS. -- 00 Hoo 01/11/2021 5:09PM I think the issue is that no one suddenly wants them. as i understand it -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:23PM No one wants to host an ISIS recruiting site either, for exactly the same -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 6:04PM Thats a bit of a stretch comparison ** -- ftwuva 01/12/2021 09:52AM Flashback to ISIS Twitter of the middle 2010s -- hoodeyo 01/11/2021 11:49PM That reason nobody wants Parler is because they have not put proper -- 00 Hoo 01/11/2021 5:34PM And this may be the end all be all of it. hopefully they do what needs to -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:38PM That's the thing, though - no group is being denied free speech. -- 00 Hoo 01/11/2021 5:45PM I do not completely agree with your stance though it is not wrong by any -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:50PM There was no free speech before Parler. -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:01PM Yeah that 1st amendment just popped up out of nowhere ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:10PM I'd say Jeff Bezos should not be required to publish Parler's -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 4:56PM Murder and insurrection cross the line ** -- Brown Water 01/11/2021 4:52PM Then shut down twitter bc an awful lot of it is on twitter too ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:56PM Not anymore ** -- Brown Water 01/11/2021 5:01PM Why is this so hard to understand ** -- Brown Water 01/11/2021 4:27PM It's mind boggling, really. It's a pretty simple concept. ** -- CyberHoo78 01/11/2021 4:58PM Reading shit on Earth 2 and posting it on Earth 1 can make a person -- Molina 01/11/2021 4:48PM Because I'm an idiot? ** -- FfxStationHokie 01/11/2021 4:29PM Hey now, idiots matter. ** -- Guy LeDouche 01/11/2021 5:08PM Free dumb, baby ** -- Brown Water 01/11/2021 4:43PM I get the free speech absolutism, but this is the equivalent of fire in a -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 4:23PM I dont feel sorry for anyone. i feel sorry for what we have become. free -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:27PM I get your point, but I have a hard time arguing that there isn't -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 4:42PM I think its a bit more macro. as i understand it, parler came about bc -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:55PM I am certainly not a tech guy, and I won't pretend to understand the -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 5:07PM I feel like that fact that the ACLU is getting involved on some level lends -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:20PM Do you understand how the ACLU works? If so, you know they file on behalf -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:25PM I do know but at its core they file based on violations of civil liberties -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:36PM You keep saying "The ACLU is involved; that MEANS something!". But it just -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:39PM The ACLU has their own agenda, and it is probably more aligned with your -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 5:25PM I hope youre right and this all works out. im just skeptical that it will -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:39PM BTW, everytime is see you post, I think the ftw stands for Fort Worth. ** -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 5:47PM I prefer for the win to seem clever but its just my initials. ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:50PM I figured. its just the Texan in me ** -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 6:06PM Trump cannot hold any more press conferences ** -- FfxStationHokie 01/11/2021 4:12PM He doesn't know, he just heard it on Fox. ** -- 81_Hokie 01/11/2021 4:10PM Good thing there is the Soapbox, eh? ** -- Guy LeDouche 01/11/2021 4:00PM Be careful. "Don't tread on him." ** -- Blah 01/11/2021 4:01PM There is free speech...but then you get called names by the meanies :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 01/11/2021 4:01PM Oooh, that sounds like grievance! ** -- TomGlansAski 01/11/2021 4:55PM Poor thing lost his Parler account. #Smh #Tragical ** -- FTJ Mackey 01/11/2021 3:59PM That actually is concerning. everyone just decided that parler shouldnt -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:15PM Hahahaha, if only they had built their own platform and not relied on AWS! -- FTJ Mackey 01/11/2021 4:26PM Do you even understand what that means? there are like 3 carriers in the US -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:30PM Isn't what you're saying here is that: hey, private company X, you MUST do -- CyberHoo78 01/11/2021 5:04PM In fact, a policy like that would violate the very free speech he claims to -- VAGentleman05 01/11/2021 5:32PM Not at all. but the fact that a conservative twitter (?) suddenly has no -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:18PM Are you mad at the TownHall guys for banning your boy? Same difference, -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:40PM Is this really the road you think you can go down with me? feel free to try -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:50PM It's a question, not an attack. Websites sensor people who threaten others -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 4:56PM Wait -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:02PM Hahah, your post makes a lot more sense now. Yes, I meant -- WahooRQ 01/11/2021 5:41PM My apologies RQ. totally misread it. do you like how shen is calling me the -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:42PM Took the words right out of my mouth. Fuck em ** -- FTJ Mackey 01/11/2021 4:32PM Yeah thats not helpful. everything swings back around so how will you feel -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:41PM If their product is worthwhile, they’ll come back -- FTJ Mackey 01/11/2021 4:49PM That would also be twitter.... ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:51PM I saw that an aclu lawyer might be defending Parler here -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 4:24PM I don't think that's it at all. The app stores have a TOS for developers -- chuck-fu 01/11/2021 4:22PM No one gave a shit before last wednesday. now suddenly it matters? that -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:24PM Ha- really? You don't think that the threat going from being 'theoretical' -- chuck-fu 01/11/2021 4:30PM I dunno, congressional hearings that have been happening for years while -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:40PM Exactly - armed attacks on Congress might be a reason to shut it down. ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 4:27PM There have been reasons to shut it down for a long while before last week -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:33PM I disagree - only other event might be the Michigan governor kidnapping. -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 4:44PM Priorities, man. Big Tech is a fertile ground for discussion, but we got -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 3:56PM Are you talking about the bakery not allowing a gay wedding cake? ** -- HoosWillWin 01/11/2021 3:53PM Oh man, so even cakes can be gay these days? what's next? ** -- CAVern 01/11/2021 4:03PM Gender reveal cakes are the worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 4:11PM I know. First it was right wing GOP congressmen, and now cakes. ** -- HoosWillWin 01/11/2021 4:04PM Hippos ** -- SCHOO 01/11/2021 4:00PM I think he's talking about gov't funded medical facilities being prohibited -- 81_Hokie 01/11/2021 3:57PM According to Dr. Treadmill, "that's different." ** -- Blah 01/11/2021 3:56PM I'd say you're gonna feel stupid when you find out he's not me... -- ResistHoo 01/11/2021 4:19PM Hey, it's Dr. Treadmill. ** -- Blah 01/11/2021 4:51PM Derp. ** -- ResistHoo 01/11/2021 4:57PM Is that a treadmill brand? ** -- Blah 01/11/2021 6:29PM It's the sound you make as you grunt another thoughtless, stupid reply. ** -- ResistHoo 01/11/2021 7:47PM So a private company must state what the government wants? -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 3:52PM A private company that defended itself for not banning people and not -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:17PM The people whose speech is being suppressed can go elsewhere -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 4:20PM Thats not how free speech works when the place they went is now not allowed -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:21PM In theory, Parler can go to a non-AWS provider. ** -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 4:25PM How many of those are there? i have no clue how many there are that can -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:32PM Here’s what I saw -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 4:40PM And that is completely correct. if the ACLU is on that side then that says -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:48PM AWS owns about half the internet -- WahooMatt05 01/11/2021 4:37PM Well that is a problem in and of itself from a monopoly standpoint ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:47PM How dare they?!?! Let's storm the US Capitol!!! -- Blah 01/11/2021 3:51PM You should probably reread the text of the 1st amendment ** -- Brown Water 01/11/2021 3:50PM Something about Congress making a law..... ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:54PM Comgress shall pass a law forcing private -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 4:01PM Hopefully social media does not turn into College Campuses, but we will see ** -- Tuckahokie 01/11/2021 3:48PM Wait. You can no longer advocate murder -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 3:55PM So you dont believe in free speech if the speech isnt something you agree -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:18PM Don't be stupid. Forcing a business to publish your preferred -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 4:41PM The ACLU is on the side of parler. what does that tell you -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:52PM Tough titty. ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 4:55PM It tells me you are on the wrong side on this one. -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:59PM Sure you are a facist as well as stupid ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:01PM Insults are the last resort of insecure people with a crumbling position -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:12PM Probably not in your semi literate manner new hoothat ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:14PM LOL ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:28PM Riff his line intentionally ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:33PM Yes only hoothat ever typed LOL.....LOL ** -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:41PM Then, well played! ** -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 5:54PM You can’t yell fire in a crowded movie theater. You can’t falsely accuse so -- 111Balz 01/11/2021 4:30PM This is the speech that is not protected -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:36PM But consider that Trump wanted to pass legislation -- Zhoo 01/11/2021 5:09PM It seems to me that both parties have serious issues with these tech -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 5:25PM And this used to be a free country. ** -- southdenverhoo 01/11/2021 4:07PM Maybe stop calling for death to Pence or give instruction -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:50PM You did hit on a good point there but -- ftwuva 01/11/2021 4:20PM In normal times maybe. Not right now when they are continued calls for -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 4:25PM That deserves censorship...but definitions can be expanded...thus the word -- Tuckahokie 01/11/2021 3:54PM Point taken. ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:56PM You have worked for the government too long to know -- Shenhoo 01/11/2021 3:48PM When you get the same powerful corporations you've been in bed with to do -- HokieDan95 01/11/2021 3:47PM You mean like orange and Twitter? orange and Oil/Gas? orange and Coal? -- HoosQ 01/11/2021 4:09PM ANTIFA’s not here, man. ** -- Molina 01/11/2021 3:46PM Private companies are now considered fascist? ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:46PM Fascism involves a tight bond between private companies and govt ** -- HokieDan95 01/11/2021 3:49PM The party of big business is now afraid of big business. tough to get out -- Plano Hoo 01/11/2021 4:05PM It’s anarchy. Cats and Dogs living together. ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 4:09PM Solyndra? (sorry...wanted to bring back on oldie) ** -- Tuckahokie 01/11/2021 4:02PM Would you say you’re anti-fascist? ** -- FTJ Mackey 01/11/2021 3:55PM Name which government agency asked for these companies to act as they did** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:51PM The deep state. ** -- HoosWillWin 01/11/2021 3:56PM You mean the Global Socialist Conspiracy? They're Fascists now too?!?!?!? ** -- Beerman 01/11/2021 4:40PM Right always forget about that one. ** -- walkthecorner 01/11/2021 3:57PM Charleston Cav hates socialism but the thing that really pisses him off is -- Molina 01/11/2021 3:47PM