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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
Right, the only position one can hold ITT is whether the government should intervene or not, or whether it's legal/illegal.
Not really, you can say something ala "I think shutting down Parler was wrong and dangerous". People might disagree with you, but it is still an opinion.
But to argue from principle is tougher territory. First of all Parler isn't some free speech high cause. It's an aggressive data-mining tool to sell population sets to political campaigns and lobbyists, done behind a veil of private sponsorship by interests that might be purely political. It was paid for by the same people who ran Cambridge Analytica, which could be reasonably be described as an attack on democracy and ran on ethical standards that made even Facebook flinch.
There is also plenty of people in this thread which would agree with you that big data should be looked at and that regulation should be considered.
It's also a bit hard to take conservative politicians seriously when they complain about being censored, when it is apparent from how they talk that they already think like influencers and have enormous political hitting power on social media. Far more than their political counterparts hold as individuals. In fact their effective opponent in the capitalist marketplace right now is public opinion