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I was confused as the linked threat didn’t seemed to have aged particularly badly. However, lower in the thread Greenwald claims that the insurrectionists organ
by Bootvis 6y ago
I was confused as the linked threat didn’t seemed to have aged particularly badly. However, lower in the thread Greenwald claims that the insurrectionists organized on Facebook and 0 of them on Parker.
- nickthegreek 6y agoThanks, I didn't realize it linked to the top thread and not the specific tweet. "Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start."
- dfxm12 6y agoThen maybe it's worth taking the whole thread into consideration. The zero arrests comment probably is incorrect, but, does that take away from the larger point, especially with regards to the context of the nyt article? Tl;dr: he made a lot of tweets on this subject. Cherry picking one part of one tweet doesn't say much about his overall point.
- mint2 6y agoGreenwald cannot object to cherry picking and ignoring context without being a hypocrite.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoAny viable social media competitor needs critical mass. A conservative exodus to Parler would be one way to make that happen. Big tech just squashed a competitor while the "iron was hot" for Parler and even if it comes back online it might never get the network effect it could have gotten.
- dragontamer 6y agolobste.rs seems to be doing fine as a discussion site aimed at technologists. This "hypergrowth at all costs" mindset is pretty suffocating. There's plenty of niche sites that are successful without the need of trying to be the biggest in the world.
- dragontamer 6y agoThanks. I was about to comment about how things didn't seem to line up based off of the top-level tweet. I'm glad that yall scrolled down further than I did.