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https://www.cableforum.uk/about/21/terms-and-conditions
It’s a difficult balancing act though. On the one hand these are commercial enterprises, they have ownership and they get criticised if they allow their property to be used to facilitate criminality. On the other hand they have deliberately sought market dominance and that gives them extraordinary power to control terms of public debate (unlike Cable Forum).
To be honest I’m a little more worried about Google and Apple denying access to their app stores to services like Parler. They are a step removed from what goes on within the app and it is an uncomfortable development if these two companies between them are going to decide this stuff for almost all mobile phone users in most of the world.
Google suspends Parler, Apple threatens to:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55598887