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Not only does Parler have the option to set up their own infra like the old-school days of the web, they even have the option of promoting their speech via mode
by cafed00d 6y ago
Not only does Parler have the option to set up their own infra like the old-school days of the web, they even have the option of promoting their speech via modern mobile only apps.
It’s not impossible to have the entirety of their community communicate solely via Signal, WhatsApp or iMessage. Or any theoretically equivalent end-to-end encrypted messaging app where the “message group” is the entirety of the current Parler community.
Apple, FB or anyone else, have no way to separate those users from others.
Of course, one could argue that Apple & Google could institute new policies to prevent the spread of misinformation on apps. But nobody can argue that it is a definitively more difficult problem to solve than on a user-content based, server-driven social network such as Twitter.
WhatsApp has implemented feature such as limited forwarding to combat misinformation.
But still they haven’t (and technically cannot) prevent Parler users from expressing their views.
In other words, I don’t see any instance of Parler users losing their right to free speech anywhere. Sure, they don’t enjoy the luxury of _convenience_ driven speech. But depending on how you define it, none of us have universally convenient means to express our speech.