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And who is it that decides what is Parler's intent and allots the corresponding thought-crime punishment? I am sorry but your point is absurd.

sbarre 6y ago
People digging into Parler found out that all new users were shadowbanned by default until a group of like-minded moderators reviewed and approved their posts. These moderators were overwhelmingly MAGA/Trump supporters, so I'm sure you can guess what kind of posts they expected to see before they unblocked a new user. This was all shared/revealed on Twitter, so take it as "evidence" with whatever grain of salt you like, but people didn't just make up these claims about what Parler was.. So while perhaps Parler claimed to be a place for open debate and unrestricted ideas, it is seems that was just a thin cover for their much more focused goal of being a home for all this extremist right-wing talk in America.
- zarkov99 6y ago
  Do you have a good reference that summarizes these findings? I would like to learn more about this.
  - sbarre 6y ago
    This seems to be the Twitter account where most of the info was coming from: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/ https://twitter.com/donk_enby/ She links to a bunch of other articles and sources as well, including lists of moderators etc...
    - zarkov99 6y ago
      Thanks, I took a look. It is not the most coherent presentation but I can see there were examples of crappy posts in there, but so there are everywhere else. The AWS letter made the most reasonable argument and it amounted to an indictment of Parler's technical ability to keep manual moderation working in the face of increasing traffic. Whether that really was the problem or just a virtue display from Amazon is unclear to me.
      - sbarre 6y ago
        Vice also published a good summary of the stuff that was scraped from Parler when their SaaS providers went down, but most of it is based on interview with the Twitter user above.

sbarre 6y ago

People digging into Parler found out that all new users were shadowbanned by default until a group of like-minded moderators reviewed and approved their posts. These moderators were overwhelmingly MAGA/Trump supporters, so I'm sure you can guess what kind of posts they expected to see before they unblocked a new user. This was all shared/revealed on Twitter, so take it as "evidence" with whatever grain of salt you like, but people didn't just make up these claims about what Parler was.. So while perhaps Parler claimed to be a place for open debate and unrestricted ideas, it is seems that was just a thin cover for their much more focused goal of being a home for all this extremist right-wing talk in America.

zarkov99 6y ago
Do you have a good reference that summarizes these findings? I would like to learn more about this.
- sbarre 6y ago
  This seems to be the Twitter account where most of the info was coming from: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/ https://twitter.com/donk_enby/ She links to a bunch of other articles and sources as well, including lists of moderators etc...
  - zarkov99 6y ago
    Thanks, I took a look. It is not the most coherent presentation but I can see there were examples of crappy posts in there, but so there are everywhere else. The AWS letter made the most reasonable argument and it amounted to an indictment of Parler's technical ability to keep manual moderation working in the face of increasing traffic. Whether that really was the problem or just a virtue display from Amazon is unclear to me.
    - sbarre 6y ago
      Vice also published a good summary of the stuff that was scraped from Parler when their SaaS providers went down, but most of it is based on interview with the Twitter user above.