The banning of parler sounds like a cartel of big tech companies engaging in anti-competitive practices to eliminate a potential competitor
@valleyforge
To be fair, it's just the app being delisted from the Google App store. They have a mobile site.
@valleyforge As much as I agree that we need more control over our devices and freedom with app installation, mobile websites aren't *that* inferior to apps in this case and calling this censorship of Parler as a whole is disingenuous
@mathlover I don't think it needs to be complete censorship to be anti-competitive practices
@valleyforge
It's not anticompetitive, since Google doesn't have a social media platform other than Youtube. Apple has no social media to speak of.
@mathlover Ah but the cartel includes facebook and twitter. I'm alledging that these big tech companies back each other up in attacking their competition
@valleyforge Ah. Do you have evidence for this in the case of Parler?
@mathlover no that's why I said it "sounds like"
@valleyforge Ah. Fair enough.
@mathlover now amazon is getting rid of their website. Seems even more like the cartel
@valleyforge According to this, it was a movement within Amazon that was responsible:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/amazon-worker-group-calls-for-cloud-unit-to-drop-parler
@mathlover When the rail trusts in the 1890's banned people or companies those companies could always put their goods on horseback and ship them that way