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So was Parler was just a honeypot for the incoming domestic "war on terror"?
by basdftrewq 6y ago
So was Parler was just a honeypot for the incoming domestic "war on terror"?
- swivelmaster 6y agoI doubt it. There's a long history of self-important "we're going to create an alternative to X social media site/service, but with FrEe sPeEch!!!" sites built by largely incompetent grifters.
- basdftrewq 6y agoThe mandatory phone and required ID for some features according to the reply below (wtf?) sound really weird.
- CyanLite4 6y agoYes. You had to take a picture of a government ID in order to get certain user privileges.
- onion2k 6y agoParler's origin story can be summarised as: - Former startup founder and Amazon dev meets beautiful Russian woman in Vegas - Whirlwind romance - Married in Russia - Travels Russia for 6 months allegedly having meetings with tech people and lawyers - Comes back to Vegas and starts social network with 'secret' (eg not publicly disclosed) investors. None of that is necessarily a smoking gun. It could be entirely legitimate and above board, and just the story of how someone started a business that's right on the edge of what's socially acceptable for many people. But if you wanted to build a honeypot social network in the USA that is pretty much exactly how you'd do it.