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The fact that Parler has a vague air of legitimacy – unlike other platforms known for their explicitly far-right user bases – normalizes racist violence against Black people and anyone associated with them. Like the white police officers and “respectable” public servants who joined the Ku Klux Klan after the US civil war, or the white families who partied under the lynched bodies of Black men, white America has continued its intergenerational love affair with public anti-blackness. The methods have simply mutated. Memes calling for our deaths are the lynching postcards of the 21st century. Shared among the masses, they make casual affairs of Black terror. It’s not enough for the sharers of these memes to simply believe in white violence on a personal level; the collective experience is the point.
 
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Amazon on Tuesday brought receipts in its response to seemingly defunct social networking platform Parler's lawsuit against it, detailing AWS' repeated efforts to get Parler to address explicit threats of violence posted to the service.
But far from getting cut off suddenly, Parler had months of warning, Amazon says. Amazon's filing included copies of emails it sent to Parler in mid-November (PDF, content warning for racial slurs) containing screenshots full of racist invective about Democrats, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, with a series of responses from other users to "kill 'em all."

Amazon provided "more than 100 additional representative pieces of content" advocating violence on Parler over the following seven weeks, the company said. Another document in the filing (PDF, also with content warning for racial slurs and threats of violence) lays out dozens of examples of posts Amazon reported to Parler, beginning in mid-December. Those posts call for, among other things: killing a specific transgender person; actively wishing for a race war and the murder of Black and Jewish people; and killing several activists and politicians such as Stacey Abrams, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and former President Barack Obama.
 

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Yo! FBI! Keith Olbermann *wants* me to go to prison. TAKE HIM OUT NAO!
 

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Ha ha ha!
They don't have much choice. The FBI probably threatened them with "Aiding and Abetting" and "Obstruction of Justice" if they didn't voluntarily comply/respond to the search warrant (the story isn't clear if the FBI had a warrant).

Note that Parler's data has been already scraped by white-hat computer folks, but that's not admissible as evidence. Getting it directly from them, with probably signatures to releasing the data makes it more solid to bring to court.

Re: Rep Greene - looks like my prediction she will be kicked out of Congress is getting more likely every day. As she is from Georgia, I was seeing all the local reporting on her during the campaign. For example, her Q followers intimidated the Democrat who wanted to run against her out of the race, so she ran unopposed.
 
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