As everyone is now aware, Parler, the free-speech social media platform, is down, de-platformed by Amazon, which operates the server farms on which Parler had mistakenly relied. Apparently, because conservatives favor Parler, this social media platform dedicated to free speech is not to be tolerated in a country dedicated to free speech. We are securely in George Orwell’s 1984. But yet again, Shakespeare got there first, when, In Romeo & Juliet, he cast the Parler management team as none other than Romeo, and he cast Amazon as the Prince, who, …

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