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shripadk
6y ago
Well all this wouldn't have been possible if not for the precedent Big Tech set in handling opposing ideologies. Now why cry over balkanization of the internet when that is what was pushed for by the leftists in these Big Tech companie
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shripadk
6y ago
It doesn't matter if your feed is filled with mostly animals and math jokes. Facebook/YouTube or any social media provider will still send you one video that is not based on your profile under certain circumstances. Have you ever
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shripadk
6y ago
Wherever CCP wants him to be.
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shripadk
6y ago
Amazon leaked the email to BuzzFeed 1 hour before Parler received the email. Shocking detail if true. What was Amazon trying to do? Quoting from the case pdf file: "Strangely, the article with the letter was posted before Parler itself
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6y ago
> George Bush, Lindsey Graham, David Koch, Ron Paul, etc., then sure, all conservatives have been banned from Twitter! Do I feel they are truly conservatives? Nope. Not at all. At least not in the what conservatism means. > violence-e
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6y ago
> You realize the account in question for Bannon had also gotten away with temporary suspension in the past right? Nope. I never heard of Bannon's Twitter account being temporarily suspended in the past. Can't find any source f
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6y ago
> Parler allows hate speech. Parler literally says it doesn't allow itself to be used for "civil tort". I can't argue with you if you refuse to even acknowledge the legal terminology used here. Anyways I'll leave
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6y ago
"You brought up the Principles but refused to clarify where they ban hate speech, did you read them?" OMG did you even bother to read what I wrote? I literally mentioned that "civil torts" encompasses "hate speech&q
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6y ago
Suspended on Twitter? More like locked out for 5 minutes until she removed her tweet. She is doing perfectly fine with her 2.1 million followers right here: https://twitter.com/kathygriffin?s=09 I can't find Steve Bann
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6y ago
If you want to look at it that way then an aerated cold beverage is worth 219 times Boston Dynamics.
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shripadk
6y ago
Are you kidding me? Who TF is @SmashRacismDC? I looked them up and they had only 800+ followers on Instagram. This is in no way, shape or form a prominent left wing account. > Provide one example of a prominent “left wing account” that o
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6y ago
You are right. They wouldn't care less about Uyghur Muslims being put in concentration camps and indulging in forced labour if they can meet their production targets and be profitable. And before we forget, ISIS literally used Twitter
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6y ago
I haven't seen the CEO of Parler release any such statement. ---- Rate limited so editing my reply for comment below Thanks for the link. I couldn't find it. If this is the situation then it's extremely bad. The entire situ
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6y ago
> because their differentiator is literally not moderating hate speech since it counts as free speech. False. Have already shown with evidence that they were indeed moderating hate speech and did indeed have it clearly, unambiguously def
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6y ago
My answer was not whether Twitter did delete all conservative tweets or not. My answer was to this statement by the original commenter: > Twitter is already very judicious when it comes to any use of the word 'kill' nowadays=
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6y ago
Your really want me to expose you don't you? How convenient of you to not link to the Parler Guidelines that you quote out of. What was the reason not to link? You thought I am a dummy who can't look up the Parler Guidelines and n
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6y ago
Their target audience are the elderly and those who are illiterate in technology in general. I have personally seen people around me click the first result that shows up without even stopping to read what is written on it. They just assume
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6y ago
> We've seen this happen in the U.S. too with the recent conservative shift from Twitter to Facebook and Parler. If Parler does go down due to AWS pulling the plug, we will again see a shift to a new platform - it's a matter of
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> Research actually backs up that deplatforming does reduce audience sizes for an outlet. This research was done at a time when there was little to no backlash against Big Tech. When you factor in a billion+ people moving from one platfo
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6y ago
It won't be. These bans and policies have been going on for a really long time. It is just hitting the US now. It has been happening in India for far too long. Big Tech monopoly has gone unchecked all this while. At least I am happy to
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6y ago
> Anyway I feel like this is a blessing in disguise, stuff like this can cause Tech giants to lose huge market share in the long term future. It is already happening in India. So many of my friends uninstalled WhatsApp and moved to Signa
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I read your long winding post and it still is unable to address my points. You are just beating around the bush with all sorts of analogies. It's funny to see how the left wing was crying over censorship in Parler now suddenly says tha
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> And also what are you even trying to say, that the reason why Parler was banned was those images? And now that I have shown you that Amazon did use those low engagement Parler posts as reason to boot Parler (their email mentions "
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> And also what are you even trying to say, that the reason why Parler was banned was those images? Yes I am saying these are the images for which Parler was banned. Maybe you should do your research before you happen to accuse me of say
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> What you mean is Twitter doesn't prioritize reports on low engagement tweets. It is funny you can find these low engagement tweets not a big deal while the threat report that Amazon sent to Parler literally contained a low engagem
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at what you said. "Just requires a report". Okay here is a challenge for you. I'll give you links from 2016 - 2019. Try getting them removed. I have been reporting them for months now
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> My line for free speech seems to lie in speech that incites violence or speech that discriminates against people for immutable characteristics of their person, both of which I know Parler harbors in abundance Which Amazon, Facebook and
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I just gave you proof of Twitters unwillingness to remove posts on their platform. I have reported them all months ago. None of them have been removed. There are plenty like this. As long as it suits the left-wing narrative it will be prote
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You make it seem like Parler only had violent posts. I hope you don't club every member of Parler with violent extremists. And I'm talking about conservative/right wing ideology. Not Parler specifically. Because if Big Tech i
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> we challenged their fundamental assumptions about the world or proposed alternatives they called us “cucks” and what can you do at that point That's not true at all for most Trump supporters. If you have trouble finding answers to
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