Apple is happy to do business with you. Good to know.
And no, this isn't me being incendiary. Parler is funded by Mercer family. Google that if you want to know why that automatically taints the platform. Nevermind their practice of banning left wing commentators [independent.co.uk]
Parler isn't adding anything positive to the national conversation, nor was it intended to. It's there to cause trouble.
Parler is back on the app store now they have alienated all the right wing free speech enthusiasts by reporting crimes to the FBI and having a minimal level of moderation.
yeah the FBI will be all over it but the FBI is over any page full of extremists ("4 Chan Party Van? LoL just kidding FBI!").
The point of Parler is to have one more stop in the pipeline of radicalization. You start on right of center local TV (owned by Sinclair media), move on to Fox News, then OAN & Newsmax, then on to Talk Radio. All the while Facebook is sending you further and further down the rabbit hole. Eventually you get banned for FB for reposting incitements to violence. Normally you'd be
Are they though? They don't appear to have been prepared for the attack on the Capitol, despite it being openly discussed on Parler and elsewhere.
The NSA had a similar problem. Collected everything but didn't know what to look for. Maybe the FBI does scrape every post but has trouble spotting the important stuff.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan Perlis
As long as you're willing to Dog Whistle (Score:4, Interesting)
And no, this isn't me being incendiary. Parler is funded by Mercer family. Google that if you want to know why that automatically taints the platform. Nevermind their practice of banning left wing commentators [independent.co.uk]
Parler isn't adding anything positive to the national conversation, nor was it intended to. It's there to cause trouble.
Re:As long as you're willing to Dog Whistle (Score:3, Insightful)
Parler is back on the app store now they have alienated all the right wing free speech enthusiasts by reporting crimes to the FBI and having a minimal level of moderation.
Mercer money can fix that (Score:3)
The point of Parler is to have one more stop in the pipeline of radicalization. You start on right of center local TV (owned by Sinclair media), move on to Fox News, then OAN & Newsmax, then on to Talk Radio. All the while Facebook is sending you further and further down the rabbit hole. Eventually you get banned for FB for reposting incitements to violence. Normally you'd be
Re: (Score:2)
Are they though? They don't appear to have been prepared for the attack on the Capitol, despite it being openly discussed on Parler and elsewhere.
The NSA had a similar problem. Collected everything but didn't know what to look for. Maybe the FBI does scrape every post but has trouble spotting the important stuff.