Apple and Amazon are also removing Parler

The giants Apple and Amazon joined Google on Sunday and also vetoed the social network Speak, which has recently become very popular among conservatives and the far right in the United States, due to its refusal to regulate content that incites violence.

The move follows the assault on the US Congress led by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump and leaves the future of Speaking in limbo.

The social network has grown considerably in recent months and has become a haven for far-right figures whose content they break the rules against hate speech and violence platforms like Twitter or Facebook, and conservatives who see the internet giants as biased against them.

Parler’s big “boom” came after the November presidential elections in the United States. Since then, the network doubled its users to 10 million, according to the company.

Without filters

The social network does not prohibit hate speech or have any kind of fake news filter, although it does prohibit spam and illegal activity.

This bet, which has been its main pillar, could now condemn her to disappear or become marginal under the pressure of the giants of Silicon Valley.

It was Google first, which removed the Talking application from its virtual store and on Saturday evening, Apple followed suit, after giving the company 24 hours to set up a moderation plan on its platform.

“We have always supported the representation of different points of view in the App Store, but there is no room on our platform for threats of violence or illegal activity. Parler has not taken adequate measures to respond to the proliferation of these threats to the safety of people, ”the bitten-apple company said in a statement.

Apple has said it will keep Talking – which it says has stepped up its restraint in trying to remove content that incites violence – out of its App Store until it fixes the issue.

Meanwhile, Amazon informed Parler that from this Sunday evening it will stop providing web hosting services, which would mean that the social network remains inaccessible to your users unless you find a new provider, not only through its mobile application but also through web browsers.

Amazon’s decision, advanced by the medium Buzzfeed, responds according to the company to a violation of its terms of use by not removing violent content.

Conspiracy theories

Talking quickly became a speaker for many conspiracy theories and was one of the main channels for organizing events which ended the assault on the Capitol.

Since then, many posts can be read online calling for more riots, encouraging citizens to arm themselves to protest in Washington, or calling for the execution of political figures.

In a message on the social network, the CEO of Parler, John Matze, denounced that the measures taken against his platform are a “coordinated attack of the technological giants to end the competition”.

The social networks of Tik Tok and even Parler, the most used by extremist groups in the United States, and the Amazon platform this Sunday joined efforts by Google, Apple, Twitter and Facebook to block complaints of electoral fraud – dismissed in various court proceedings – from outgoing President Donald Trump and threats and violent messages from his supporters, following the attack on Capitol Hill this week.

Trump does not have an account on Tik Tok, the social network used to share short videos; However, this company, which was at the center of its fight with China a few months ago, has deleted in the last hours all the president’s tapes in which he denounced electoral fraud.

Tik Tok, a Chinese company, has also decided to block videos containing the hashtags (#) most used by Trump supporters who participated in or supported the assault on Capitol Hill last Wednesday: #stormthecapito (takeover of the capital ) and # patriotparty (patriot party).

The company told reporters that Trump’s election fraud allegations, which polled state courts and federal courts have rejected, violated its disinformation rules, according to news channel RT.

Tik Tok has made it clear that he will allow a “counter-narrative” that challenges Trump’s claims and complaints on his platform.

Public pressure and big private tech companies have increased so much in recent hours that Even Speaking censored one of Trump supporters’ violent posts who supported or played in the attack on Capitol Hill, which rocked American democracy as it had not done in decades.

A pro-Trump lawyer posing as Lin Wood, who took to the Talk social network after Twitter suspended his account last Thursday for his violent comments, called on Sunday for the killing of Vice President Mike Pence, who has publicly refused on Wednesday to do so. reverse the election result in the congressional session, as Trump requested. Talking censored the message.

This is the last known decision of its kind after four days of unprecedented measures from the main social networks and the application platforms of the Western world.

Without a doubt, the decision that seems to have most affected the daily communication of the outgoing President of the United States is that of Twitter.

In this social network, the preferred megaphone of Republicans with around 89 million followers, his account was suspended “permanently” after a 12-hour blockade last Wednesday for his messages during the attack on Congress in Washington DC which made five dead.

Source: EFE

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