The New York Daily News published messages released by Amazon to defend its decision to boot the right-wing Parler off its site.
Amazon sought to justify its shutdown of Parler on Thursday by sharing with a federal judge several deranged posts from the anti-social network.
Amazon attorney Ambika Doran said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle that the tech giant had no choice but to stop hosting Parler on company servers after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.…
“The content at issue … encourages rape, murder and torture,” Doran said. The lawyer filed examples of inflammatory, disturbing Parler posts in court, which she called “the tip of the iceberg.”
The posts showed Parler users discussing mass murder of liberals, extreme homophobia and transphobia, racism, and attacks on Amazon itself.
“On January 20 we need to start systematically assassinating #liberal leaders, liberal activists, #blm leaders and supporters, members of the #nba #nfl #mlb #nhl #mainstreammedia anchors and correspondents and #antifa. I already have news worthy events planned,” read one bloodthirsty post.
Parler is demanding that Amazon restore its services.
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Diane One wonders IF and how long it will take for maleness, and then white maleness, to find its new and proper equilibrium with the rest of us human beings. CBK
Is this White maleness? I do not think so. These people are as different from other humans as a rock is from a watermelon. Both can be round and smooth, but the similarity ends there. Suggesting that it is the white maleness that motivates their atrocity stirs enmity. It does so because it commits the same logical fallacy that leads to prejudice: the fallacy of generalization.
I recall a study that made the point that the amount of diversity among men and, among women, is similar and that it possibly trumps differences between the two.
There is no denial as a generality that America’s social interactions, business practices and religions have been both sexist and racist. It is reflected in wealth accumulation, employment, political power, family dynamics,… and, at a personal level, it occurs daily.
Well put, Roy.
Look at the pictures of those arrested so far or identified. 90% or more are white and largely male. Most of the maga rosters are cluttered with white men trying to maintain their power and control. MAGA is really MAWA (Make America White Again).
That a group is largely white or largely male doesn’t mean their conduct is a symptom of “whiteness” or “maleness.”
Linda: I agree that white males have dominated and been destructive. Using that to paint white males with a broad brush means that you are discouraging white males to be kind and considerate. I was taught to be kind and considerate by a wonderful white female: my mother. She was married to a guy who was my father. He was a different white male too. Broad brushes make poor paintings is my only point.
Roy,
I agree. Many men and women are like you and me, trying to change ourselves to end a legacy of sexist, racist and homophobic attitudes that we learned from society.
I don’t have time to spend collating research that quantifies the answer to which sex’s attitudes cause more harm to society’s progress. It’s possible that the better measure is which is more receptive to change
and by how much.
CBK,
Some of the white males who comment here take exception to your generalization. Just as you take exception to broad brush generalizations about Catholics.
Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee, Nikki Haley, Kayleigh McEnany, Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao, Amy Coney Barrett, Heather Wilson, not to mention enablers like Ronna Romney, Marsha Blackburn, Susan Collins, Virginia Foxx, Ginni Thomas, Paula White, https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2019/06/29/hundreds-of-women-have-lead-roles-in-the-trump-administration-45-more-await-senate-confirmation/?sh=45bc3b61250e (This one’s definitely going into moderation!).
You were right about one going into moderation.
“Seema Varma is the Administrator for Medicare and Medicaid.”
She followed Pence to this position after having worked to get a Medicaid for Indiana that involved having Medicaid patients put money each month into a health savings account. You obviously can’t give all of those ‘lazy poor people’ free healthcare.
Trump Picks Seema Verma To Run Medicare And Medicaid
November 29, 2016
5:18 PM ET
…Verma comes to the job with extensive Medicaid experience. Her consulting firm, SVC, Inc., worked closely with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to design Indiana’s Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. The expansion, known as the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, went into effect early last year, and Verma’s involvement in it may prove important as Congress and the Trump administration, including the Vice-president elect, make decisions on the future of Obamacare.
Indiana’s unique Medicaid expansion was designed to appeal to conservatives. HIP 2.0 asks covered people to make a small monthly payment to access health insurance. A missed payment can result in six-month lockout from insurance coverage. Those provisions aren’t allowed under traditional Medicaid, but Indiana got a federal waiver to implement them….
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Column: Medicare boss Seema Verma is a threat to public health
Seema Verma, the federal official in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, has blasted into the limelight. And not in a good way.
Seema Verma is the greatest threat to public health programs in the Trump administration, with the possible exception only of Azar himself. As recently as Wednesday, she was basking in praise for approving a South Carolina program almost certainly destined to throw needy residents out of Medicaid.
Since her appointment as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services weeks after Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Verma has pushed policies that would restrict access to health coverage for millions of low-income Americans and eviscerate the Affordable Care Act’s safeguards for people with preexisting medical conditions.
Verma has been a vociferous supporter of work requirements for Medicaid even though they’ve been consistently struck down in federal court. She has repeatedly attacked Obamacare, which she is sworn to uphold, often using inaccurate or cherry-picked assertions.
Most recently, she has gone on the road to attack “Medicare for all,” which encompasses the universal single-payer proposals of several leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president. In public speeches she has labeled Medicare for all and related proposals for the public option for healthcare “socialist” or “radical socialist” ideas.
Those activities drew an accusation from the Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that Verma was violating the Hatch Act, which forbids most executive branch employees to engage in political activities. CREW cited three tweets Verma issued on her official government Twitter account attacking Medicare for all…
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-12/verma-medicare-public-health
CBK,
I don’t know why there are responses that mischaracterized what you said.
FLERP! said: “That a group is largely white or largely male doesn’t mean their conduct is a symptom of “whiteness” or “maleness.”
FLERP! is correct, but CBK’s comment did not say that their conduct was a “symptom of whiteness or maleness”.
Roy said: “Suggesting that it is the white maleness that motivates their atrocity stirs enmity.” That also isn’t what you said.
CBK asked how long it will take for maleness, and then white maleness, to find its new and proper equilibrium with the rest of us human beings.”
That comment didn’t say anything about all white males being bad. All it did was recognize that there is a privilege granted to males, and especially white males, that is still going, which has nothing to do with whether some of them – or even many of them – recognize their privilege.
In my opinion, the younger generation (I mean much younger, like 14-22) gets this in a way that their elders often don’t. Those young men don’t get defensive when the privilege of being a white male is mentioned — they acknowledge their privilege. Instead of claiming to be disadvantaged because groups that used to be disadvantaged are now getting the same privileges they used to get, they acknowledge that doing so is the only way to address the privileges that white males have had for so long.
CBK didn’t say anything that should make any white male angry, and yet people got angry. Why?
This white male rejects your claim. It’s something else that’s poisoning the minds of too many Americans.
What “claim” do you reject? Do you reject the idea that white male privilege even exists? Do you agree with the marchers that white males are really the “victims” here, and thus it is necessary for them to take back their country to achieve mere equality with those who the marchers believe really are the privileged ones — the non-whites (and some would say “fem Nazis”) who are taking over the country and getting special benefits that they don’t get?
What is poisoning their minds are people telling them that their problems are all due to the “others” who prevent them from having their rightful success in society. What poisons their minds is people telling that white males who are successful do it all by themselves, by their hard work, and if they aren’t successful, it is because special privileges are granted to others that they aren’t getting since they are the victims.
I do not think Parlor can force Amazon to restore those services. Private sector businesses have the right to refuse to do business with customers.
There is a long history of court cases, state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that companies don’t have to serve customers.
https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2018/06/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-baker-who-denied-service-to-same-sex-couple.html
Under American law, a business owner has the right to refuse service to some customers. But federal and a lot of state laws say you can’t discriminate against customers based on factors such as race, religion, sex or national origin, said Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights attorney at the National Women’s Law Center.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/us/when-businesses-can-deny-you-service-trnd/index.html
Businesses Rights to Refuse Service
Business owners have a bit of freedom in their decisions they make on whom they wish to serve. Certain rules and regulations are common among businesses. For example, no shoes, no shirt, no service,. Stores can even go as far as putting up political signs, ideological memorabilia, or religious passages. In the case of Red Hen, its owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, told the Washington Post the decision to ask Sanders to leave was over her work in the Trump administration and how it impacted her employees. …
Most states have no public accommodations laws that prohibit discrimination based on political ideology. Therefore, no law prohibited Red Hen*s owner from asking Sanders to leave due to her actions as an official in the Trump administration.
https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/can-a-business-refuse-service-to-anyone–1
Media reported PayPal blocked the largest Christian crowd sourcing site because it was being used to fund the defense of Proud Boys members.
This is a step in the right direction. I don’t understand why the wealthy support Trump but corporations, at least at the current time, are turning against him. Wealthy people run corporations. Are they afraid of losing people who buy their products? 89% of Republican women support Trump and feel that he did nothing wrong.
I sent this email to two Trump lovers. This list is long but I feel it is important that everyone view this LONG list.
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A running list of corporate responses to the Capitol riot
Corporate America wants to distance itself from Trump. Is it too late?
By Melinda Fakuade@melindafakuademelinda.fakuade@voxmedia.com Updated Jan 14, 2021, 11:45am EST
The insurrection at the Capitol has inspired companies to make their thoughts on the matter known. Many brands have announced that they have decided to stop supporting Trump-adjacent bodies, or to stop donations to lawmakers and groups that have expressed support for the baseless claims that the election was a sham. Our corporate overlords have decided to make their stance clear by way of making public statements, pulling funds, and other actions…
The insurrection may have spawned a new turning point — brands don’t want to be caught in the fallout of a potentially traitorous act. The decisions are mostly symbolic but could kick off real change in the future. Here, we’ve compiled information about corporate and brand responses to the insurrection, and their repercussions. We don’t yet know how long these decisions will last or what their future ramifications will be, but as we learn more, this story will be updated with new information.
3M
According to Popular Information, 3M said it will pause its “federal and state political expenditures for the first quarter of the year.”
Airbnb
In a statement, Airbnb said it would “withhold support” from lawmakers who voted against election certification.
Amazon
In a statement, Amazon said that they will suspend their PAC contributions from those who voted against election certification.
American Airlines
According to Popular Information, American Airlines said it will take a “three month pause” on political giving.
American Express
In an internal memo, the CEO of American Express said that the company’s PAC will no longer support those who objected to the results of the election.
AT&T
According to Popular Information, AT&T, which has made the largest contributions to Republicans who voted against election certification, will suspend contributions.
Bank of America
Bank of America said that in the next election cycle, it will “review [its] decision making criteria” when it comes to making donations.
Blackrock
According to the Washington Post, Blackrock is stopping its political donations.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has announced that it is suspending PAC contributions to lawmakers who voted to challenge the election results.
Boeing
Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific has stated it will temporarily suspend its PAC contributions.
BP
BP says it will halt PAC contributions for six months.
The US Chamber of Commerce
According to the New York Times, the US Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest business lobbying group in the country, said that it will no longer contribute financially to those who objected to the certification of the election results.
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab said it will stop its PAC donations for the rest of 2021.
Citibank
According to an internal memo obtained by Popular Information, Citibank said it will suspend its PAC contributions for three months.
CME Group
In a statement, CME Group said that they will suspend all of their PAC contributions for “the foreseeable future.”
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola announced it will suspend its political contributions, but will donate to President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee. It also condemned the violence.
Comcast
In a statement, Comcast said that it will suspend contributions to those who voted against the certification of the election results.
Commerce Bancshares
Commerce Bancshares said in a statement that it is suspending “all support for officials who have impeded the peaceful transfer of power.”
ConocoPhillips
The gas company ConocoPhillips said it is halting its donations and reviewing its giving practices.
Deloitte
Deloitte has announced that it will suspend its political contributions.
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, to whom Trump currently owes over $300 million, has stated it will no longer do business with the president going forward. It also will refrain from doing business with those who voted against the certification of the election results.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is suspending its corporate and employee PAC contributions for one election cycle.
Ernst & Young
In a statement to Popular Information, Ernst & Young that they are immediately suspending PAC giving.
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil, the second-largest contributor to senators who voted against election certification, said it is reviewing its PAC contributions.
Facebook
Facebook told Popular Information that it will pause its PAC donations for “at least the current quarter.”
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is suspending its employee political action committee, due to the 2020 presidential election and the insurrection at Capitol Hill.
General Motors
General Motors released a statement saying that its “PAC contributions will be evaluated to ensure candidates align with our core values.”
Google
According to the New York Times, Google will suspend ads about “candidates, the election or its outcome, the upcoming presidential inauguration, the impeachment process, the Capitol riots, or planned protests about any of these subjects.” This is to go into effect on January 14th, and last until at least January 21st.
Goldman Sachs
In a statement to the New York Times, Goldman Sachs said it plans to stop all political donations.
H&R Block
In a statement, H&R Block said it is halting its PAC donations.
Hallmark
Hallmark is requesting refunds from Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) to return their PAC contributions, in light of their votes against election certification.
Hilton
Hilton has announced that it will suspend its PAC contributions indefinitely.
Intel
According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel will be suspending donations to those who objected to election certification.
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase said that it will pause PAC contributions for six months.
KPMG
In a statement to Vox, KPMG said that they are “imposing a moratorium on contributions” to members of Congress who did not support election certification, and will re-evaluate their PAC giving.
Lehigh University
Lehigh University has stripped Trump of his honorary degree, which was awarded in 1988.
Marriott
As first reported by Popular Information, Marriott said it is no longer donating to members who voted against election certification.
Mastercard
In an internal announcement obtained by Popular Information, Mastercard said that it has suspended PAC contributions to members who voted against the certification of the election.
McDonald’s
In an internal memo reported on by Business Insider, the CEO of McDonald’s condemned the insurrection at the Capitol, stating that it was “an attack on all those things that people cherish and associate with America. That includes McDonald’s.”
Microsoft
Microsoft told Popular Information that until it reviews the events at the Capitol, it will not be making political contributions.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is considering revoking Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s honorary degree, which was awarded in 2005, on account of his role in “fomenting the violent uprising against our nation’s Capitol building.”
Morgan Stanley
According to Business Insider, Morgan Stanley will suspend all PAC donations to those who voted against certifying the results of the election.
Nike
In a statement, Nike said that they will suspend PAC contributions to those who voted against the certification of the election results.
Northrop Grumman
In a statement to Defense News, Northrop Grumman said they are pausing their PAC contributions.
PGA of America
PGA of America has announced that it will no longer host the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club. The Trump Organization says this is a breach of contract.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
In a statement to Popular Information, PricewaterhouseCoopers said that they will suspend contributions to those who voted against election certification.
Shopify
Shopify has closed two online stores tied to Trump’s organization and his campaign.
Signature Bank
Signature has said it is closing President Trump’s personal accounts with the bank, and has called for him to resign in the wake of the events of the Capitol.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster has dropped Sen. Hawley’s book deal.
Stripe
Stripe said it will stop processing online payments for Trump’s campaign website, although the Wall Street Journal reports that Stripe is still processing payments through third parties.
UnitedHealth Group
According to Popular Information, UnitedHealth Group said it will pause its donations “to federal candidates.”
Verizon
In a statement to Reuters, Verizon said it will suspend contributions to those who objected to election certification.
Visa
In a statement to Popular Information, Visa announced that it will temporarily suspend all its political donations.
Wagner College
Wagner College has stripped Trump of his honorary degree, which was awarded in 2004.
Walmart
In a statement to Axios, Walmart said that they will indefinitely suspend PAC contributions to those who voted against election certification.
The Walt Disney Company
In a statement to Axios, Disney said that they will pause their political contributions in 2021.
Zillow
In a statement to Vox, Zillow said that they will be withhold their PAC support from those who objected to the certification of the election results.
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There is a photo of Trump holding up the bible. Holding it up is proof that he reads the bible daily.
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War on Xmas? Even under Communism Xmas was kept as the main holiday of the year. It was never under attack.
I do not understand why a private company like Amazon have to justify why they stop providing services to certain individuals. Even at my public university we were told that while we can talk about anything on campus as per 1st amendment, we can lose our jobs for discussing certain issues.
Internet companies can deny people service if they violate “terms of use” agreements, which are generally so all encompassing that they make it possible to deny service for any reason whatsoever.
Amazon actually doesn’t have to justify anything, not least if all because they have more money and power than God herself.
TIME:
BY EBEN SHAPIRO
For decades, chief executive officers studiously avoided wading into controversial issues of the day. There was no possible upside, only risk. But the apolitical CEO is one of the many norms shattered by Donald Trump. In many respects, the 45th President has made it easy for corporate leaders to be more outspoken. It’s sort of a no-brainer to speak out, as National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons put it on Jan. 6, against “armed violent protesters who support the baseless claim by outgoing President Trump that he somehow won an election that he overwhelmingly lost.”
There are a number of factors driving CEOs’ new embrace of the bully pulpit. For one, insurrection, sedition and violence in the streets is bad for business. Big organizations require stability. Tear gas and bear spray make it hard to achieve the “visibility” into future earnings much prized by Wall Street. “With our country in the midst of a pandemic, business leaders recognize that ongoing division and distrust in our political system threatens the economic recovery and job creation our country desperately needs,” says the Business Roundtable, an organization made up of the CEOs of the nation’s biggest corporations including Apple, JPMorgan Chase, GM and Walmart.
On its most basic level, Trump’s persistent assault on the rule of law and the degradation of a federal election risked undermining the foundations of the system that made the American economy the most dynamic and successful on earth. The primacy of U.S. capital markets and the nation’s standing as a safe haven for global investors were at risk with Trump’s attacks on the norms of good governance. An authoritarian government and a free market can’t co-exist. At its heart, the capitalist system requires honoring contracts, which made Trump’s flouting of rules a profound threat to financial institutions, capital markets and corporate governance. “We believe in investment in the rule of law, not the law of rulers,” says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of leadership studies at the Yale School of Management. “CEOs say that about investing abroad—now that has to apply that at home too.”
Defending that system helps explain in the week after the Capitol attack, a who’s who of the nation’s most prominent blue-chip companies, including Marriott, AT&T, American Express and Amazon, said they would halt campaign donations to members of Congress who voted to challenge the presidential-election results. Unsentimentally, Hallmark Cards, which is based in Kansas City, Mo., took the additional step of asking Republican Senators who objected to certifying the results to refund the company’s previous donations. Other companies, including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, called a temporary halt to donations to both Republican and Democrats….
It isn’t over…Some nefarious actors out there…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/19/parler-website-partially-returns-with-support-from-russian-owned-technology-firm
Ha! It makes sense that Parler is funded by Russian tech companies. Probably by Putin.