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No, that was not the proposition of Parler, and it was specifically against the TOS and still is.

eyelidlessness 6y ago
And yet, it’s where the people who value that proposition keep flocking. It’s almost like they understand some subtext about the service and its intent.
conception 6y ago
TOS doesn’t mean anything if they aren’t enforced.
- lawnchair_larry 6y ago
  They are. Go ahead and report something, then let us know how long it stays up. People organize violence on twitter almost every single day.
Barrin92 6y ago
If they actually enforced their TOS 90% of their extremist userbase would leave, which is why a post about shooting Mike Pence by one of their most followed users could stay up for days until Apple threatened them.
- lawnchair_larry 6y ago
  “Hang Mike Pence” was trending at the top of twitter. Now what? They’re a pre-series A startup with a very small staff. If people don’t report things, it’s not feasible to expect that they’ll all be actioned. Instead of reporting the post, activists with an agenda thought it better to cherry pick them and attack platforms. A more honest test would have been to report the content and see if they acted on it. But let’s not kid ourselves, this campaign was disingenuous from the beginning. The real goal is to shut down a perceived enemy in the culture war.
dashundchen 6y ago
Didn't stop the attack on the Capitol being organized there. In fact there is another attack being organized there for the inauguration. There are many far-right watch groups tracking this.
- ekianjo 6y ago
  > Didn't stop the attack on the Capitol being organized there. If it were organized on Telegram would you ban Telegram? If it was organized by phone would you ban phones? This is just silly.
  - dashundchen 6y ago
    Perhaps telegram should crack down on these channels during this crisis, yes. Parler made no attempt to turn down the temperature by removing calls for murder, assasination, or civil war. These platforms are at this moment currently being used to mass hype up an increasingly armed and paranoid segment of the population hyped up on years of cult-like propoganda, conspiracy, and dehumanizing of their imagined enemies. It was a stroke of luck they did not take out Congress the other day, I'm sure some will try again. If you want a clue where this ends up unabated and exploited, I encourage you to look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

And yet, it’s where the people who value that proposition keep flocking. It’s almost like they understand some subtext about the service and its intent.

conception 6y ago

TOS doesn’t mean anything if they aren’t enforced.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago
They are. Go ahead and report something, then let us know how long it stays up. People organize violence on twitter almost every single day.

Barrin92 6y ago

If they actually enforced their TOS 90% of their extremist userbase would leave, which is why a post about shooting Mike Pence by one of their most followed users could stay up for days until Apple threatened them.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago
“Hang Mike Pence” was trending at the top of twitter. Now what? They’re a pre-series A startup with a very small staff. If people don’t report things, it’s not feasible to expect that they’ll all be actioned. Instead of reporting the post, activists with an agenda thought it better to cherry pick them and attack platforms. A more honest test would have been to report the content and see if they acted on it. But let’s not kid ourselves, this campaign was disingenuous from the beginning. The real goal is to shut down a perceived enemy in the culture war.

dashundchen 6y ago

Didn't stop the attack on the Capitol being organized there. In fact there is another attack being organized there for the inauguration. There are many far-right watch groups tracking this.

ekianjo 6y ago
> Didn't stop the attack on the Capitol being organized there. If it were organized on Telegram would you ban Telegram? If it was organized by phone would you ban phones? This is just silly.
- dashundchen 6y ago
  Perhaps telegram should crack down on these channels during this crisis, yes. Parler made no attempt to turn down the temperature by removing calls for murder, assasination, or civil war. These platforms are at this moment currently being used to mass hype up an increasingly armed and paranoid segment of the population hyped up on years of cult-like propoganda, conspiracy, and dehumanizing of their imagined enemies. It was a stroke of luck they did not take out Congress the other day, I'm sure some will try again. If you want a clue where this ends up unabated and exploited, I encourage you to look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide.