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> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server. Is this link right? How about a link to an article instead? What is Parler? Why is it suspended?
by mholt 6y ago
> We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
Is this link right? How about a link to an article instead? What is Parler? Why is it suspended? What is the story for those of us who are just tuning in now?
- unreal37 6y agoParler is an app many of the American Conservatives go to now that their speech is restricted on Facebook and Twitter. But Apple (and Google) don't like how Parler was used to organize the protests/riots at The Capitol.
- blisterpeanuts 6y agoa conservative social media platform that Google and Apple suddenly noticed because of continuing outrage about the events of Jan. 6.
- auslegung 6y agoExcellent questions, completely unsure why the downvotes
- r721 6y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22221648/google-suspends-bans-parler-play-store https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22221648/google-suspends-b...
- im3w1l 6y agoParler is a twitter competitor. After Donald Trump and several other people were banned from Twitter and Facebook, people were thinking about moving over to Parler. After about a day Google and Apple banned Parler from their appstores. Four big tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter - they are cooperating and coordinating in destroying people they don't like. At this point this fourheaded beast is the most powerful force on this planet.
- enkid 6y agoBy people you don't like, you mean the people encouraging and coordinating an assault on the US capitol.
- im3w1l 6y agoTrump is not the first one this happens to. Alex Jones faced a similar situation. The Gab app was also taken down in coordination. And besides they were itching to ban Trump before this already. Twitter was very clearly hinting that Trump would be banned the day he was no longer president. This protest just made it happen two weeks early.
- enkid 6y agoIt's almost like some event just happened that made them want to ban him...
- matz1 6y agoThis should be an opportunity for competing company to differentiate themself by offering to support parler.
- im3w1l 6y agoMaking a competing smartphone ecosystem isn't exactly a weekend project. Apple and Android know perfectly well how ittle competition they have. That's why they know they can get away with being user hostile.
- rodgerd 6y agoParler is where people who were too openly racist for Reddit or Twitter go, because they won't get kicked off for planning coup attempts, or opining that Hitler did nothing wrong. Apparently the modern state of both American "conservatism" and a chunk of newsy posters feel that Google and Apple should be forced to host them.