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> The sad fact is your comment exposes how difficult it is for anyone in the tech industry to hold a sincere conviction that free speech is a good thing Twitte

> The sad fact is your comment exposes how difficult it is for anyone in the tech industry to hold a sincere conviction that free speech is a good thing Twitter occasionally labels disputed/debunked political claims as such (but still lets them be published) and, after literally years of doing little more than that, finally took actions to ban a half-dozen high-profile accounts that kept pushing such claims after they arguably literally lead to an armed insurrection. Parler was literally designed with suppression of political viewpoints they disagree with in mind from the start. It should be crystal clear which of those networks "values free speech" to a higher degree. So, no, your implicit claim that it's sad that top talent wouldn't work for Parler because that would demonstrate their commitment to free speech is silly at best and disingenuous at worst. Parler has demonstrably less commitment to free speech than Twitter does. I'll be blunt: my sincere conviction is that "if you moderate anything it means you are not for free speech" is not a viable operational principle. It's a rhetorical device. Trolls -- alt-right or otherwise -- have always claimed that moderation suppresses their free speech. If you listen to them, you are running a forum for trolls, whether or not that is your intent. It is not Parler's publicly claimed intent to be doing so, but -- even based on the content on their site, let alone their ideologically-driven moderation which, again, goes far beyond anything Twitter, Facebook, et. al, have actually done -- it is painfully obvious it is their actual intent.

brigandish 6y ago
> Parler was literally designed with suppression of political viewpoints they disagree with in mind from the start. "We're a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship... If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler." That's a quote from the CEO I just grabbed from CNBC[1] and there are others floating around about the lack of censorship. How does that lead to suppression of opposing political viewpoints? [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-join-the-pro-trump-crowd-on-the-app.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-...
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  This is just talk. You can scroll up to the head of the thread and see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology.
  - brigandish 6y ago
    > This is just talk If you can't construct a proper response don't denigrate mine, thanks. > You can scroll up to the head of the thread Again, if it's too much effort for you to construct proper responses then you shouldn't respond at all. > see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology That is not what the tweets show. They show that there are moderation tools. There is no proof that any view was censored, you, along with the tweeter, have inferred that. If you have a statement sent out to mods about what should be allowed, or you have something that shows certain types of speech were suppressed then you can make the claim. "Social network has moderation tools and mods" does not cut it. Now, if you're going to reply again I'd ask that you try harder to maintain some civility and up the quality, probably through greater effort.

brigandish 6y ago

> Parler was literally designed with suppression of political viewpoints they disagree with in mind from the start. "We're a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship... If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler." That's a quote from the CEO I just grabbed from CNBC[1] and there are others floating around about the lack of censorship. How does that lead to suppression of opposing political viewpoints? [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-join-the-pro-trump-crowd-on-the-app.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-...

sudosysgen 6y ago
This is just talk. You can scroll up to the head of the thread and see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology.
- brigandish 6y ago
  > This is just talk If you can't construct a proper response don't denigrate mine, thanks. > You can scroll up to the head of the thread Again, if it's too much effort for you to construct proper responses then you shouldn't respond at all. > see how the platform was designed to censor in order to maintain a certain ideology That is not what the tweets show. They show that there are moderation tools. There is no proof that any view was censored, you, along with the tweeter, have inferred that. If you have a statement sent out to mods about what should be allowed, or you have something that shows certain types of speech were suppressed then you can make the claim. "Social network has moderation tools and mods" does not cut it. Now, if you're going to reply again I'd ask that you try harder to maintain some civility and up the quality, probably through greater effort.