Lol Google blocks truth social from play store.

Oh really? Were you angry when the government stepped in and made restaurants serve everyone?

That's not true though 🤣🤣🤣

Parlor tried to do that and Amazon removed them from their servers. Truth Social tried to do it and Google removed them from the app store. There is no creating your own when a hand full of companies own access to everything.

Yes they can. They could absolutely block a website if they choose to or essentially regulate it to the dark web.

@girlusocrazy: I'm not talking about you using those apps or not... I'm talking about those companies being protected from any competition due to other companies invested in them.

That's why those few companies will always be on top. Nobody will ever be able to build a competing platform. If Google, Amazon, apple won't host your platform you are competing with 2 arms tied behind your back.

What it really boils down to is that the idea of "don't like this platform, go make your own".

Can't work, because it needs approval of mega corps who don't want the competition.

They can simply pull your domain.

@girlusocrazy: again you are still looking at it from an individual perspective. I'm talking about the overall tech market. It's not good that Google, Apple, Amazon, have so much power over new or emerging platforms. They are heavily invested in the existing platforms Facebook, Twitter, IG.

They pretty much get to decide how popular a platform is "allowed" to be. If they control the servers and store fronts..

You making the decision if you want to use those platforms addresses nothing I'm saying. We aren't talking about the same thing.

self-hosting is an option. amazon is not the only cloud provider in town.

as others have said, apps are available to download outside of app stores. are truth social users not smart enough to figure this out?

@silentchief: Antifa a terrorist organization? 🤣

I bet the Nazis called the allies terrorists, too.

Sorry, dude, but Google is well within it's free speech rights to not host such disgusting ignorance and hatred. You're just going to have to deal with it.

@girlusocrazy: sigh... To each their own

Yea because that's so easy and once Amazon pulls you so will every other major server provider.

I worked in the telecommunications insudustey for 5 years. The vast majority of users period will not figure that out.

Very poor analogy. Straw man etc. But expected from you.

They can refuse to host it. At that point your basically considered the dark web.

An analogy of your argument is basically

A group of people want to visit the town but the town doesn't want them there so they blocked all roads to access the town. But the town isn't stopping them because that group could just build their own road.

Yeah just follow the rules it's not hard.

Google is not obligated to put Storm Front 2.0 up in their Play Store. If they want to be put back, just clean up the cesspool. Hire more moderators you cheap babies.

LOL they won't be paid anyway.

Not at all. You are OK with authoritarian government intervention as long as you agree with it.

They absolutely are. Burning down buildings and assaulting people wtf would you call it?

Comparing purple haired cat dads to the allied forces🤣🤣.

@silentchief: Assaulting people? I could find hundreds of videos of maga morons punching people, crushing cops in revolving doors, beating them with metal puppies, dragging them as they're beating them. I'm not sure that's exactly terrorism, though.

Burning buildings? Demonstrate it. I can removalists maga morons shooting at FBI buildings.

Like the definition of socialism, you guys are really starting to stretch the definition of terrorist.

I don't advocate for them I hate both of those companies. The issue is few other choices exist.

No truth Social is not the dark web as they have not pulled their domain. I'm saying they have the power to do so and other server providers will generally follow suite.

I agree their should be more choices and companies should try to create those other alternatives. But the barrier to get involved in that is extremely high.

Yea and it would all be during one event. While Antifa did it on a regular basis for about 5 years.

Nice whataboutism but the difference is none of those groups have recruitment apps.

Well I'm just following your definitions. I mean you did the same for groups like the proud boys so I'm going by your definitions.

@silentchief: One event? People were assaulted at hundreds of his "rallies".

Google's decision is not government intervention. Your analogy fails. Again.

It is baffling so many people have such naive views on free speech.

Free speech is far from a simple black and white issue. While one can argue that google does not adhere to the principles of free speech, actual free speech laws give them the right to do this, and to take away google's right to moderate their own content, would actually take away their freedom of speech and association.

Civics courses are useful, and by civics courses I do not mean morons on YouTube.

Looks like you fail again.

My analogy is to compare government intervention of Google and other ( multi billion dollar companies). You are not for that as you consider that authoritarianism. But you are ok when the government intervenes in cases of making restaurants serve everyone. So when is it ok again?

Most the time it was people being dragged out by security. If your referring to his rallies.

They weren't calling for police to be murdered.

You haven't shown that. Google doesn't want to apps that call for violence. They've told Truth Social to moderate accounts. TS doesn't. Google doesn't have app. Nothing there is government. You're showing fascist tendencies forcing it.

@silentchief: They call for men, women, and children to be murdered on truth social. No wonder why the app is banned

He won't admit the site is the problem.

It may be a problem. Not sure I don't use it. Regardless i have no proof that those things were said. What is the standard for moderation? Is it simply acts of violence? Or does it move into misinformation? Which is where we can get an extreme level of bias.

There is no moderation. That's the problem. The site breeds violent calls for action. Google doesn't want associated with that. That's their right. If something happens they could be held accountable.

No I mean googles standard for moderation. What is it?

And that's absolute bullshit. The app would be held accountable not Google.

again, self-hosting is an option. welcome to the internet pre 2009 before AWS was a thing. the whole point of the internet was that anyone with a computer running the correct protocols can host a site.

that's not how the internet works. google doesn't control routing of packets around. as long as your self-hosted site is routable, traffic can get to it.

Not calls for violence.

Civilly they can lose a lawsuit.

There have been talks to remove both 4chan and 8chan.

Remove from what? They're independently hosted sites with no official apps. And who's talking about it? THE MAN?

Oh please. They would never lose that law suite. The liability would be on Truth Social.

You've never been on a jury have you? Jurors don't understand laws. Jurors don't follow laws. You're just trying to hide.

No one should be forced to carry content they disagree with. PERIOD. That's authoritarian thinking. Which is, of course, the MAGA GOP. Are you a member? Sure is sounding authoritarian to me.

It would never go to court as the judges that do understand laws would throw the case out. The left is far more authoritarian in the US at this point.

Mostly dumb ass politicians. Because they are privately hosted the conversation moved to censoring and tracking users.

You're guessing. Companies have a right to protect their product.