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One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler, but rather tended to occur on FB. If you'd used Parler before it went down (I poked it

One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler, but rather tended to occur on FB. If you'd used Parler before it went down (I poked it months ago, before all this madness, and found it to be sorely lacking), you'd notice that it's a shoutcasting platform like Twitter, and is wholly unsuitable for any kind of event planning. At most, you could give messages saying to prepare for X at event Y, which is 'planning' of a sort, I suppose.

MrMan 6y ago
an assertion, not an observation
- Fellshard 6y ago
  He provides some cursory anecdotal evidence to that effect in the article, at least. My only addition is observing the nature of the platform itself as also making it an unlikely venue for that activity. But people have used platforms for entirely unsuitable purposes before...
dragonwriter 6y ago
> One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler No, that's one of his unsubstantiated claims that conveniently fits the ideological tirade he's been on since long before the events in question. Other journalists have pointed to planning on Parler, including citing specific posts.
- Amezarak 6y ago
  Planning also occurred on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Violent threats and incitement to violence occur on these platforms all the time. Some of this content is moderated. Much of it is not.
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    > Planning also occurred on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Sure. And that may indicate problems with those platforms. At a minimum, though, those platforms reacted against continued use by the same terrorists once it was unmistakably, publicly, concretely clear that they were a deadly serious threat.
    - Amezarak 6y ago
      There are still plenty of posts by these people on those platforms.
hertzrat 6y ago
I don’t think he said that. He said that many of those arrested were not active parler users, and that significantly more planing happened on Facebook and Twitter

MrMan 6y ago

an assertion, not an observation

Fellshard 6y ago
He provides some cursory anecdotal evidence to that effect in the article, at least. My only addition is observing the nature of the platform itself as also making it an unlikely venue for that activity. But people have used platforms for entirely unsuitable purposes before...

dragonwriter 6y ago

> One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler No, that's one of his unsubstantiated claims that conveniently fits the ideological tirade he's been on since long before the events in question. Other journalists have pointed to planning on Parler, including citing specific posts.

Amezarak 6y ago
Planning also occurred on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Violent threats and incitement to violence occur on these platforms all the time. Some of this content is moderated. Much of it is not.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Planning also occurred on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Sure. And that may indicate problems with those platforms. At a minimum, though, those platforms reacted against continued use by the same terrorists once it was unmistakably, publicly, concretely clear that they were a deadly serious threat.
  - Amezarak 6y ago
    There are still plenty of posts by these people on those platforms.

hertzrat 6y ago

I don’t think he said that. He said that many of those arrested were not active parler users, and that significantly more planing happened on Facebook and Twitter