The leftist "woke" purge of politically incorrect speech has begun

Yesterday, in "Al Strachan on social media and being deplatformed", Walt advised you to try Parler, an alternative app where those of us of a politically incorrect persuasion could speak freely and express ourselves openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed'. 

In an update at the end of the post, I reported that you could no longer get the app on Amazon, Apple or Google stores, but should be able to download it directly. Not any more! Early this morning TheRightScoop reported that Parler has gone dark, turned off by Amazon. 

The Big Tech Purge (they write) is now at the next level. They’ve gone from concept to execution (a fitting word) on their test case of shutting down speech and banning what they don’t like from the internet. In America, if the left doesn’t like you, they can just turn you off.

Brendan O'Neill, writing on Spiked-Online.com, says: With the flick of a switch, billionaire capitalists voted for by precisely nobody have just silenced a man who is still the democratically elected president of the United States. With the push of a button in their vast temples to technology, the new capitalist oligarchs of Silicon Valley have prevented a man who won the second-largest vote in the history of the American republic just two months ago — 74 million votes — from engaging with his supporters (and critics) in the new public square of the internet age. 

Walt reminds the censorious lefties of an old adage: Just because you've silenced a man doesn't mean you've converted him!