Apple and Google have both removed Parler from their app stores, and Amazon Web Services has kicked Parler off its hosting platform.This comes in the midst of a massive purge of conservative/Trump/right wing users and groups on Facebook and Twitter. It appears that Apple, Google, and Amazon are ensuring that victims of the Facebook/Twitter purges have nowhere else to go. Parler became enormously popular among Trump supporters and conservatives for its dedication to free speech, and they flocked to the platform by the hundreds of thousands.
And now Big Tech is taking out their competition directly, and in a very overt and coordinated manner. It would have been pretty hard to believe that these corps would have coordinated such an attack against one of their competitors even just a few months ago. Now it is our reality. It sends a message to other would-be free speech platforms: if you’re not with us, prepare to be purged.
The obvious next step is for websites themselves to be deleted by hosts, and for all hosting platforms to refuse to host certain content. And then it will be emails, newsletters, et cetera.
What will be left open for dissenters, heretics, and heterodox thinkers?
Trump supporters, and really anyone critical of the emerging politically correct, pro-lockdown, pro-endless pandemic, Democratic establishment are being silenced. How do they think this will end?
