[AMV] #939 25th to life

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Op maandag 11 januari 2021 20:30 schreef wdn het volgende:

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Dat gaan ze winnen denk ik.

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Legs? That seems unlikely at best.

For starters, Amazon's terms of service, across all its AWS services, are pretty explicit that it can boot customers who allow for certain kinds of content on their sites:

If we reasonably believe any of Your Content violates the law, infringes or misappropriates the rights of any third party, or otherwise violates a material term of the Agreement (including the documentation, the Service Terms, or the Acceptable Use Policy) ("Prohibited Content"), we will notify you of the Prohibited Content and may request that such content be removed from the Services or access to it be disabled. If you do not remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content within 2 business days of our notice, we may remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content or suspend the Services to the extent we are not able to remove or disable access to the Prohibited Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may remove or disable access to any Prohibited Content without prior notice in connection with illegal content, where the content may disrupt or threaten the Services or in accordance with applicable law or any judicial, regulatory or other governmental order or request. In the event that we remove Your Content without prior notice, we will provide prompt notice to you unless prohibited by law. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

Parler alleges that Twitter and Amazon colluded in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. That's the big trustbuster statute, which reads, in part, "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."

However, the effort to deplatform Parler does not appear to have been a concerted act of collusion on the part of other social media platforms or, in fact, any platforms. Far more likely is that every company involved with Parler took a look at the way the winds are blowing in the wake of an actual, literal, violent attack on the US Capitol that left five people dead and decided it would just as soon avoid further ties.

"There is no merit to these claims," an Amazon spokesperson said about the suit. "It is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content."

https://arstechnica.com/t(...)diate-reinstatement/

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 09:54 schreef wdn het volgende:

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Kan best zijn maar rechters hoeven zich niet te houden aan de regels van Amazon.
Er is best een rechtzaak te beginnen met als doel deze regels onderuit te krijgen.

Een rechter kan best wel een beslissen dat de straf te hard is maar dat is afhankelijk van wat voor overleg tussen de 2 is geweest.

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Following last week's mob attack on the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress to formally certify Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of voters say democracy in the United States is under threat, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today. Just 21 percent of voters say that democracy in the United States is alive and well.

"When it comes to whether American democracy is under threat, both Republicans and Democrats see a raging five-alarm fire, but clearly disagree on who started it," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.

PRESIDENT TRUMP

A majority of voters, 56 percent, say they hold President Trump responsible for the storming of the U.S. Capitol, while 42 percent say they do not hold him responsible.

A slight majority, 52 - 45 percent, say President Trump should be removed from office. Voters also say 53 - 43 percent that he should resign as president.

"A majority of Americans hold President Trump responsible for the chaos at the Capitol, and a slight majority believe that he should be removed from office," added Malloy.

President Trump has a negative 33 - 60 percent job approval rating, which is a substantial drop from the negative 44 - 51 percent rating he received in December of 2020.

The president's job approval rating today ties his all-time low, which he received in August of 2017.

Voters are divided on whether they think President Trump is mentally stable. Forty-five percent say he is mentally stable, while 48 percent say he is not mentally stable. The findings are nearly identical to responses from a January 2018 poll, when 45 percent of voters said they thought Trump was mentally stable and 47 percent said he was not.

UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY

Voters say 60 - 34 percent that President Trump is undermining, not protecting, democracy. There are sharp political divides on this question. Democrats say 95 - 4 percent and independents say 64 - 28 percent that Trump is undermining democracy, while Republicans say 73 - 20 percent that Trump is protecting democracy.

Voters say 58 - 34 percent that the Republican members of Congress who tried to stop the formal certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election were undermining democracy. Democrats say 90 - 9 percent and independents say 61 - 29 percent that the lawmakers were undermining democracy, and Republicans say 70 - 23 percent that they were protecting democracy.

Eight in 10 voters (80 percent) say the individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th were undermining democracy. Ten percent say they were protecting democracy and another 10 percent are unsure. Democrats say 95 - 3 percent, independents say 80 - 9 percent, and Republicans say 70 - 17 percent that they were undermining democracy.

STORMING OF THE CAPITOL

Voters are split on whether they consider what happened at the U.S. Capitol a coup attempt or not. Forty-seven percent say they consider it a coup attempt, 43 percent say they do not, and 10 percent say they are unsure. There is a near unanimous view among voters, 91 - 6 percent, that the individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th should be held accountable for their actions.

Voters also say, 81 - 12 percent, that extremism is a big problem in the United States.

"Pick them up and lock them up. There's no ambivalence on how to treat the mobs that breached the Capitol, and there is nearly the same level of alarm from Republicans and Democrats over extremism establishing a troubling foothold," added Malloy.

About 7 in 10 voters (71 percent) say that law enforcement officials did not do everything they could to prevent the initial storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, while 19 percent say they did.

Seventy percent of voters say they are either very (35 percent) or somewhat (35 percent) concerned about the safety of elected officials in the United States, while 29 percent say they are either not so concerned (13 percent) or not concerned at all (16 percent).

2020 VOTER FRAUD

More than half of voters (58 percent) say they believe there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, while 37 percent of voters do believe there was widespread voter fraud. That is almost identical to the response in December 2020, when voters said 58 - 38 percent that there was no widespread voter fraud.

Republicans say 73 - 21 percent that they believe there was widespread voter fraud. Democrats say 93 - 5 percent and independents say 60 - 36 percent that they do not believe there was widespread voter fraud.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3686

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 10:41 schreef vaarsuvius het volgende:

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goodwill bij trump base voor zijn eigen run in 2024.

nb: dit was de gedachte 2 maanden geleden toen het nog 'normaal' was

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 10:47 schreef Korenfok het volgende:

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Ik denk dat het best aanmelijk is op basis van deze cijfers dat ongeveer een kleine 30% is ongveer de hardline trumpstemmers zijn. En dit komt redelijk overeen met cijfers achterban gelijksoortige partijen in europa.

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 11:14 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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https://www.yourt1wifi.com/

ze zullen ook wel boos zijn dat Adobe Flash op 31 december 2020 zn definitieve End of LIfe bereikt heeft en overal verwijderd is

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 11:35 schreef hhh38 het volgende:

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Die mail was al erg onprofessioneel, nog los van de inhoud

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 11:38 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
Wordt een mooi afscheidsalbum van deze band denk ik

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 11:50 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ze hebben het precedent vier jaar geleden geschapen met Mattis

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 11:57 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Mattis is uiteindelijk met 98-1 door de Senaat aangenomen, dus ‘ze’ waren niet alleen Republikeinen. Wellicht dat een paar protest aantekenen tegen het feit dat het een oud-militair is en dat hij te kort na z’n pensioen aantreedt, maar ik geloof niet dat z’n benoeming wordt tegengehouden.

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 12:15 schreef Dutch_view het volgende:
Footballcoach Belichik weigert onderscheiding uit handen van Trump

[ twitter ]

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Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 12:23 schreef erkel het volgende:

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Wanneer je het mensen maar moeilijk genoeg maakt om elkaar te vinden op een onderwerp, haakt de meeloop meerderheid wel af en hou je alleen een harde kern over. Ze zullen minder momentum voelen en dan dreigt misschien alleen het gevaar van incidentele terreuraanvallen. Ik juich deze beweging van de 'Big Tech' alleen maar toe.