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Parler CEO Says He Was Fired by Conservative Political Donor Rebekah Mercer
- wtfiswiththis 6y agoWhen Parler was coming up here due to being "deplatformed" I commented several times about how, like Cambridge Analytica which brought Trump to power, Mercers funded Parler. Way too much kneejerk defense was given to what was essentially a throwaway social media site. A burner to foment extremism by giving the right an echo chamber that wouldn't act where other sites have. And this acting by other sites often included taking down serious content like death threats and organized efforts to conduct political violence aka terrorism. So many people here just did their finest defending the product, why? Was it the site itself or some general fight for freedom of speech? Because if it was some vague fight for ideals please, pick your fights better.