‘If you have tears, prepare to shed them now’: Marc Antony and the Deplatforming of Parler
The connection between Amazon’s shutdown of Parler and Antony’s eulogy of Julius Caesar requires little from me; it’s all there on the page. Of course, since Parler has not yet been able to find a new home, it’s clear that more companies than Amazon were implicated in Parler’s assassination, just as Brutus had help stabbing Caesar to death from Casca, Decius, and Legarius. Let’s jump right in. Julius Caesar is Parler, Brutus is Amazon, and Marc Antony is speaking for all of us: Antony: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your …
