Sunday, January 10, 2021

"Treason Doth Never Prosper. What's The Reason?"

Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C. It has recently been overrun with messages encouraging 'Patriots' to march on Washington D.C. with weapons on January 19," BuzzFeed News reported Saturday evening.

"Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline," BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski noted.

Is Amazon Stifling Free Speech? Or does it just not wish to be associated with insurrectionists?

That epigram ends, by the way, with this line:  "For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."  But if it doesn't, many are quite happy to call it treason.  And who wants to be associated with a traitor? Even today Benedict Arnold lives in ignominy.

In the ninth circle of Dante’s hell there are only three souls: the three great traitors known to Dante’s time. Theirs is the worst sin of all.

 "Et tu, Brute?"

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