Twitter bans President Trump permanently

[AtW]

He can’t do on TV a fraction of the tulip he pulled on Twitter

[CheeseSlice]

Is it just me or is the real story here that AWS took down someone's production system at the drop of a hat?

I had no idea what Parler was until today. Regardless of how bad it is, I expect some AWS customers will now be reading their T&Cs a bit more closely, perhaps even considering it to be a risk.
Gone are the days you can enter the datacentre and take your servers and data back to safety.

[AtW]

Any (apart from “bulletproof” ones) hosting providers will do the same

[NotAllThere]

Did you need me to explicitly put it in <sarcasm/> tags?

Clearly. It's difficult as sometimes you post some really stupid stuff seriously.

Some politician once suggest that in addition to bold and italics, there be backward sloping letters known as "ironics", to signal when sarcasm, satire or irony is in place. Last week in the Times there was a satirical article promoting ignoring experts, and how much happier it made the author to get all their help advice from Tom599912 on facebook. People wrote letters to their MPs complaining...

[Lockhouse]

If people hold a different opinion to you, that doesn't make them stupid. A few posters here are just plain nasty.

[Old Greg]

If people hold a different opinion to you, that doesn't make them stupid. A few posters here are just plain nasty.

It depends. If people have a stupid opinion, then they are probably stupid. E.g. if think that Covid is caused by 5G, that does make stupid, unless you're trying to draw some fine lines between stupidity and ignorance.

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