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AWS Said It Repeatedly Warned Parler About Posts Urging Murder

By Amir Efrati
· · Source: The Information

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday provided key details about its decision over the weekend to stop hosting Parler, a Twitter-like social media app popular with some right-wing personalities, following last week’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. The high-profile decision, which triggered outrage from conservative politicians, libertarians and others, wasn’t out of the blue, Amazon said in its...

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A tent city in SOMA. Hundreds of people dying of infectious disease. Out-of-control crime on the streets and corruption in City Hall. Let’s talk about San Francisco…in the 1850s. Immediately after the Gold Rush, San Francisco became the home of thousands of destitute, out-of-work miners. Poverty was rampant, cholera was endemic, and the rats were “fat and daring,”...
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