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Amazon destroyed competitor when it closed Parler after Parler repeatedly broke terms they signed is incredibly dishonest framing.


I think it's a little more nuanced. Parler had some users who broke Parler's own TOS, and Parler was slow to react (problems of scale? victim of own success? Willfully slow to enforce? We don't know). Amazon acted swiftly, in light of a loosely connected civil disturbance (although Amazon's actions were not expressly a result of the riot, the timing is relevant).


>Amazon destroyed competitor when it closed Parler

Parler and Amazon are not, and never have been competitors.

Amazon does a lot of different things, but running a social media site isn't one of them.


Frankly I'd go further and say that not even Twitter and Parler were competitors.

Wasn't Parler a glorified WordPress comments section? That's all fine and well, but if I started a website and broke the TOS I doubt anybody would have wept for my losses in the same way.

It's really odd seeing people conflate, or even manufacture, predominant socio-political ideologies for companies and then labelling them competitors when those made-up ideologies differ.




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