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> Parler off the face of the planet, a purely political move Having a policy against hosting apps that host illegal content and taking no measures to remove it
by Spivak 3y ago
> Parler off the face of the planet, a purely political move
Having a policy against hosting apps that host illegal content and taking no measures to remove it is a political move? There are plenty of active conservative communities on the internet, Parler just went the "free as in anarchy" speech route. Tumblr faced a ban on iOS for pornographic content and Reddit also has to sanitize their default experience to be on app stores, so it's not just Parler.
It's why BlueSky is interesting because they have moderation which will get them on app stores, but you can turn it off.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoMany mass shootings in recent memory were live streamed on Facebook and Instagram. Removing those posts after the fact is a useless gesture. The evil already happened. Meta was never punished. Selective enforcement of TOS is political and utter nonsense. If TikTok were guilty of what they are accused of (being a foreign intelligence and propaganda tool), why is Congressional action necessary? Why wouldn't have private industry already quashed it as they did other apps? Those accusations seem a bit more serious than "mean posts with naughty words".
- Spivak 3y ago> Removing those posts after the fact is a useless gesture. The evil already happened. Meta was never punished. I mean this sincerely and in good faith, what else can you do? We don't have the PreCrime division. The accusation isn't that Twitter/Facebook don't ever host illegal or objectionable content but that they have a procedure for addressing and removing it. Parler just said no, we don't have and will never have such a policy. If Tumblr say, despite having a moderation policy just stopped enforcing it they would find themselves staring down the banhammer again. As to your second point the answer is in your own question, I don't think they actually buy that TikTok is either of those things. Hell, the NFL partnered with TikTok and they're basically cheerleaders for the US military.
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoFor that matter, the most perplexing one for me is President Biden is creating and posting campaign videos on TikTok (not in an official capacity as POTUS but as a candidate). If one truly felt the content of this bill was true, as he has endorsed signing it, why would he even use the app in the first place? Are Zoomer voters that inaccessible otherwise?
- tw1984 3y agohis team is going to give a very politically correct answer, something like - "we are not against tiktok, our presence on tiktok is the best proof. we just against the idea that 160 million American users including my team are being spied on by the Chinese government, we want you all to have a better & safer tiktok not owned by China".
- butlike 3y agoCareful. What's the alternative to taking action post hoc? The only things that come to mind for me are Thought crime and minority report's precognition. You can't preempt what people will live stream. And the banhammer only moves so quickly.
- sebazzz 3y ago> Parler just went the "free as in anarchy" speech route. This is no different than X nowadays. But the political landscape has shifted even further to the right, why now no action is taken nor desired [by the politics] to do anything about it. For instance: There is only one Dutch moderator for the entire Netherlands/Flemish community.
- BadHumans 3y agoTwitter is pretty heavily moderated if you don't align with the hive mind. The hive mind just shifted from the left to the right.