Parler is BACK!!!

[hexumhawk]

Twitter seems a bit duplicitous. On one hand they are sure to have enjoyed, for 6 years or so, the Trump brand. The tweet traffic. The media attention to their platform etc. but then on the other hand, now that he is done, they want to ban him, seemingly to earn street cred so to speak, with a segment of our population, now that they are sure to no longer benefit from his use of their platform. I can’t stand Dorsey.

Someone in here gets it at least

 

[RileyHawk]

Which Parler did, and then the tech giants conspired to remove them from the internet.
So then what?



Let's disentangle a few things.
Free speech is a concept that exists outside of first amendment protections.
So Company X censoring a viewpoint is a free speech issue, even if it isn't a scenario covered by the protections of the first amendment.

The first amendment isn't the alpha and omega of free speech, it just attempts to limit Congress from suppressing our speech.
When members of Congress, realizing they can't directly forbid the viewpoints they don't like because of the Bill of Rights, use other available pressure points (regulatory oversight) to try and get private parties to forbid viewpoints they don't like, that is a first amendment issue.
And that is happening.

They are NOT removed from the internet. This is a misrepresentation.

In your world a Jewish deli that has a public bulletin board would be forced to keep a skinhead rally sign up sheet up on the board. Thankfully the protections of our Constitution prevent that.

 

[RileyHawk]

Spoken like a true libertarian.

No. At. All. It's spoken like a capitalist.

 

[srams21]

So what is the option to facebook or twitter?

There are lots of options out there to voice your opinions. You are on one right now.

There is also instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and lots others. Plus tons and tons of forums and message boards. If you can't find a place to voice your opinion in 2021, then you are an idiot imo.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Thank goodness. Now they can get back to the real business of plotting to kill politicians and overthrowing the government. Well not their government, just our government.

It's kind of funny how trumpbaggers on here consider murder and sedition as part of conservative free speech.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Twitter seems a bit duplicitous. On one hand they are sure to have enjoyed, for 6 years or so, the Trump brand. The tweet traffic. The media attention to their platform etc. but then on the other hand, now that he is done, they want to ban him, seemingly to earn street cred so to speak, with a segment of our population, now that they are sure to no longer benefit from his use of their platform. I can’t stand Dorsey.

I'm sure, just like everyone else, he can't stand you either.

 

[CJBauer]

Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters

Some 80 terabytes of posts, many already deleted, preserved for posterity.

arstechnica.com

Oops...

 

[THE_DEVIL]