Comment by shireboy

I'll probably burn some karma on this, but I have to ask as I'm genuinely trying to form a consistent opinion on these topics and understand better. Given that lots of people on HN are advocating in favor of Parler being deplatformed on the grounds it was used by groups to advocate and coordinate violence, and given that it's not a stretch to imagine that e2e encrypted communication apps like Signal have groups on them spreading "fake news" and "advocating violence" and cannot be moderated, how does one reconcile supporting Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp, but not Parler? What's the fundamental moral or technical difference that makes one ethical but not the other?