Apple Will Let Parler Back on the App Store (cnn.com) 123
Apple has approved Parler's return to the iOS app store following improvements the social media company made to better detect and moderate hate speech and incitement, according to a letter the iPhone maker sent to Congress on Monday. From a report: The decision clears the way for Parler, an app popular with conservatives including some members of the far right, to be downloaded once again on Apple devices. The letter -- addressed to Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Ken Buck and obtained by CNN -- explained that since the app was removed from Apple's platform in January for violations of its policies, Parler "has proposed updates to its app and the app's content moderation practices." On April 14, Apple's app review team told Parler that its proposed changes were sufficient, the letter continued. Now, all Parler needs to do is to flip the switch. "Apple anticipates that the updated Parler app will become available immediately upon Parler releasing it," Apple's letter said. Parler, an alternative to Facebook and Twitter that bills itself as a haven for free speech, was removed from major tech platforms in early January following the US Capitol riots of Jan. 6.
Double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
If they held facebook to the same standard it would probably never get back on the app store
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(mostly peaceful protest).
You're disillusion [youtube.com].
But I'm sure you said the same thing about the BLM protests right? Mostly peaceful?
The left can't keep their standards straight.
Oh the irony, it hurts.
Re: Double standard (Score:2, Insightful)
No, Parler was where they were spreading election disinformation to anger the mental midgets into taking part in an insurrection.
The difference being that the election lies were public and widely shared, and thus a target, while the planning was in private or small groups, which is really more the FBI's responsibility. Now, why the FBI was so bad at this is another discussion...
Re:Double standard (Score:4, Interesting)
The only requirement is that you have a timely moderation system. It doesn't really matter how shit it is, just that you have one.
Facebook does have one. Parler didn't because it was only a small network (less than 1 million total users when it first got booted off) and didn't have much cash owing to having no revenue streams (like most startups), so couldn't afford a team large enough to either moderate or to develop moderation tools.
The new re-written Parler claims to have """AI""" systems for hiding nasty posts, presumably some kind of word filter, and a new moderation team that will hopefully keep the moderation queue short.
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Bullshit. Parler moderated a lot of content and they kept up with it. It was never a "free speech network" because there were banned topics of conversation. Topics and users were routinely deleted and banned practically instant
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Wrong.
Parler DID have a moderation system.
They used it to kick liberals off for disagreeing with them.
That is why they got booted so fast. They proved that they could moderate, but only did so for bullshit reasons.
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Wasn't it some garbage moderation system where everything reported would have to get reviewed and voted on my a bunch of people weeks later?
The key word there is "timely" since deleting a post "telling people to murder politicians in two days" is pointless if it's done a week later
*sigh* (Score:4, Insightful)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a... [cbsnews.com]
It seems Apple was not alone in believing Parler was unable to moderate content.
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Re:Double standard (Score:5, Informative)
From Forbes:
The Department of Justice has now charged 223 people for their participation in the events of Jan. 6. A comprehensive analysis [forbes.com] of those charging documents performed by Forbes demonstrate that Parler’s role was minimal, compared to that of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
Of the 223 charging documents, 73 reference posts on Facebook as evidence, 24 reference posts on YouTube, 20 single out Instagram posts (owned by Facebook), and only eight highlight posts on Parler.
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"Yes, only trillion dollar companies with billion dollar AI departments and 16,000 full time post moderators are responsible enough to escape cancellation."
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Re:Double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
Fake news was telling you America was burning to the ground. Meanwhile in reality https://time.com/5886348/repor... [time.com]
Re:Double standard (Score:4, Insightful)
Can't read that due to a paywall, but you do know that we live in an era where video can be easily shared, right? We've watched the left and antifa burn down buildings, watched police force to form a line around a church to prevent "peaceful BLM protestors" from looting, seen the aftermath of these "peaceful protests."
You can try and claim that burning down buildings, lighting police cars on fire, smashing windows and looting stores is "peaceful" all you want, but we can see it happening in real time from people on the ground.
Meanwhile all the "insurrectionists" did was mostly just wander around, taking selfies, yet for some reason we're supposed to be outraged at people watching the electoral system ignore their votes and support people violently burning down businesses and government buildings. The MSM no longer controls the narrative. We can see what's really happening. You can't hide the evidence when anyone can share it online.
Re:Double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
This is actually the problem. You see the videos that highlight your latent bias and beliefs. Imagine there was 100,000 hours of protests. Now imagine we have 100 hours of bad actors doing bad things. You will watch those 100 hours and you will say "All protests are violent hateful and extreme" because you simply are informed by the sound bytes and videos of social media.
You slowly start to reject all information that does not meet your worldview and move to extremist views. You doubt everything that causes any cognitive dissonance. Eventually, you start to think that everyone who doesn't think like you are evil.
This is the curse of social media and why it is destroying our country.
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"5 dead and congress hiding from a mob in a mostly peaceful protest at the capitol today."
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Ugh, where are you getting your news? A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot. That is in addition to all the injuries of both policies, protestors, and victims inside the capital building.
If you wanna argue the thing is over-hyped go for it, the media sensationalizes everything. 5 people die a direct consequence of events that happened on that day. Just because it took a few people a little longer to croak doesn't suddenly make the cause
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A police officer was hit with bear spray and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher on the day of the riot.
Ironic that you'd post that today because it's just breaking that almost none of that happened [npr.org]. Turns out, the police officer who died, Officer Sicknick, died of two separate and unrelated strokes. There was no evidence of trauma, or internal or external injuries. The bear spray did not cause an allergic reaction.
I'm using NPR as a source because I hope that will be seen as trustworthy enough to be considered true, but you can find it in all major media. Finally. Despite the fact that this has been known si
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It's a double standard. Pro-lifer protest planned parenthood everyday but are still linked as a whole to antiabortion facility bombings or shootings - which are even more rare than the riots going on now.
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It’s not a double standard if both sides are doing it. I agree 99.999% of anti-abortion protests are peaceful. Notice my wording, i did it purposefully to trigger you. You see it as pro life, i see it as anti abortion because it impacts a lot of life and seems to end support after birth. That may have gotten your back up more. Now realize that i don’t support casual abortion and think that we should do everything we can to limit the need for them. So I’m actually in a way on their side. I
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It's all semantics. No one in this debates wants to be "anti"
My side wouldn't say we are anti-choice just like your wouldn't say you are anti-life.
You didn't write anything that would trigger most pro-life, anti-abortion people.
Re:Double standard (Score:5, Interesting)
"The left...." People who talk in absolutes rarely have anything worth listening to. While you are close, your bias won't let you see the whole picture. Let's start with the fact that individual protesters can and should be held accountable for any bad actions. The ones who rob, destroy, and harm should be punished by the full extent of the law. This is also true with the police. The problem starts with the fact that the police and local governments refuse to police themselves. There is no way the citizens can affect this. We can't arrest the police and in many cases, there is not political vote that will arrest the police.
Up to this point, you are correct, there are more good police than bad ones, just like the protestors you villainize to meet your world view. The part where you fall for the "fake news" is when you think defunding the police means ending the police. It means no such thing, it means building a better system. The police are too large, too well funded, too militarized, untrained, and unequipped to deal with many of the situations they are called into service for. We need a more diverse system that can handle the struggles of mental and physical illnesses, crisis, and yes crime. People should not be charged with assault on an officer when they have a seizure. People should not get shot with their hands up while complying. We should have much better options than sending the police to deal with problem children in a home. We need to stop ruining the lives of children and young adults.
Many other professions have similar risks and do not carry firearms every single second with the option of ending a life when they are afraid. No other profession has qualified immunity to the law they serve. No one has ever written a rap song called 'F the firemen'.
My point is all of this is far more complex than the black/white liberal/conservative viewpoint you have taken. So is the media biased? Sure everyone and everything is biased. To be informed you can not seek out news that meets your world view, you can not take any social media or commercial media on face value. Find multiple points of view, seek to understand the real motivations of your opposition (not just creating villains in your head) and if you are lucky, you will see that the only thing keeping us from a better world is that we simply don't see each other as people.
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The part where you fall for the "fake news" is when you think defunding the police means ending the police. It means no such thing, it means building a better system.
No, it literally means ending the police. Democrats have been desperately trying to get the left (see, I know they're not the same) to stop saying they want to defund the police and trying to spin it as merely asking for police reform. And now the left is demanding instead to "abolish the police" because "defund" was unclear.
They've made it entirely clear that, no, they do not seek police reform, no, they do not want to merely reduce the size of the police or reduce funding, they literally want an end to po
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"If they don't attack the police, don't commit crime, and their lives won't be ruined. Seems simple enough to me. Stop trying to cover for criminals."
All I can say is INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
I'm sorry you are too far gone for reason. You hate to make yourself feel better. Please seek help.
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I'm sorry you are too far gone for reason. You hate to make yourself feel better. Please seek help.
That’s the problem with advice which, on its face, seems sound.
They person offering it rarely practices it themselves.
In the end, it’s just another condescending , self-indulgent post to make them feel better about them.
Can you show us where you “sought to understand where your opposition was coming from?”
Shall we all tell our opponents that they are too far gone for reason when they d
Re: Double standard (Score:2)
I do understand where the comments come from. I simply will not continue an argument where no progress or common ground can be made. There was no argument against my position. Just a redirect that libs = evil. My point was made, neither party is moving to a middle ground. Continuing is indulging trolls.
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I do understand where the comments come from. I simply will not continue an argument where no progress or common ground can be made. There was no argument against my position. Just a redirect that libs = evil. My point was made, neither party is moving to a middle ground. Continuing is indulging trolls.
Sure, but there’s a difference between not continuing an argument snd throwing up condescending insults on the way out. But you know that.
And of course, everyone is a troll to someone.(and some of us a
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People who talk in absolutes rarely have anything worth listening to.
Irony?
To be informed you can not seek out news that meets your world view, you can not take any social media or commercial media on face value. Find multiple points of view, seek to understand the real motivations of your opposition (not just creating villains in your head)
This advice is given to ....?
I’ll just cone out and ask, which group(s) do you feel typically practice this?
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Not enough people follow this advice. I change my positions with evidence. That is a very rare position for anyone who cares about politics to take. You won’t find this happening often enough to point to a group. When a politician does this they are a waffler.
My point on absolutes stands. It applies to me as well.
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We know that media is pushing a narrative
This is what's killer here. This notion that's there's only one narrative to push. It's hilarious when folks think that there is only one group to play and "media" is just playing that group.
Project Veritas has proved that time and time again
This is what's fun. Hey don't believe MSM, they're pushing a narrative, so says this group who's entire purpose is to push a narrative. I'm not saying drink the MSM kool-aid here, but you absolutely sounding like you are drinking one of the other team's kool-aid.
not OK for the right to peacefully protest their winning votes being overturned due to fraud
Uh, yeah, that whole January 6th thing, totes peaceful
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Uh, yeah, that whole January 6th thing, totes peaceful but you know it's whatever. Folks burning shit down are getting arrested and fuckers invading the capitol are getting arrested, so Thanos balanced in my eyes
You say that but a lot of people act like everyone who feels like the election was was stolen is as guilty as those that did the riot.
Apparently the only election fraud we're aloud to believe in is that caused by Russia
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I'm sure the families of the people who were unjustly inured or murdered during the BLM riots that small comfort that it was for a better cause. Same with those people whose businesses were burn down
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Russia interfering with the election still resulted in a Trump presidency because it wasn't election fraud. There was no one storming the capital trying to overturn fraud that didn't exist in 2016 but there certainly was in 2021.
The word "feel" has no place in whether the election was stolen or it wasn't. It was tried in over 60 courts and in all cases thrown out due to lack of evidence and often thrown out with prejudice. It is factually incorrect to think the election was stolen either in 2016 or in 2020
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Itâ(TM)s time magazine claiming 93% of protests are peaceful when Portland had daily riots, Minneapolis was burned, NY had several riots and Seattle was having an occupation. Thatâ(TM)s just the ones I paid attention to. So right. Mostly peaceful burning.
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The insurrectionists did end up delaying the vote. That is the definition of insurrection. Open the time.com link in an incognito window but you won't because it contradicts your beliefs.
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Sure, the insurrectionists mostly just took selfies for a terrible cause, only a few broke windows. BLM mostly only protested peacefully and for a good cause, only a few broke windows.
Re: Double standard (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's how to tell if you're deluding yourself by praising X:
Ask yourself, how would I feel if X happened in my town, in my workplace, or on my street, or in my home?
I'll go first:
I like the idea of nuclear power, and I would not mind if a couple dozen or hundred acres of open space in my town were used to build a nuclear power plant, even if it's the open field closest to my house that does it.
I like the idea of professional law enforcement, and I wouldn't mind one bit if my kid grows up and becomes a cop.
Now you go, fill on the blank:
"I like the idea of Black Lives Matter, therefore if there were daily Black Lives Matter protests on my street, demanding the typical things BLM the organization demands, such as the abolition of professional police forces, the redistribution of property from white people to black people, and an end to the nuclear family, I would feel __"
Re: Double standard (Score:5, Informative)
What if I told you lowering the police budget by 10% was not equal to dissolving the department?
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Your article says there was one homicide last year in Portland, but a quick Google search says there was 55.
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The article does not say there was one homicide last year in Portland. It says there was 1 homicide in Portland in the opening of 2020 compared to 19 in the same time period in 2021.
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It's saying that there was one (1) homicide in Portland in all of January and February last year, and apparently more than 50 in the rest of the year during the pandemic. That's hard to believe and would require an exceptional explanation if true.
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One thing's for certain. People will continue to elect Democrats in these cities whose policies lead to the police actions leading to the protests.
And the people will continue to elect these same people whosr policies lead to the large crime increases, at the behest of loudmouths who go home to save neighborhoods.
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I find it extremely difficult to believe that a 10% budget cut results in skyrocketing murder rates. As if that 10% is the thin line between lawfulness and anarchy.
What's really going on is the cops are intentionally not doing their jobs to try and prove a point.
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That point being they don't want to lose their jobs or cause their family members to lose their jobs by association if they get accused of having done something sinister while doing a job that explicitly entails confrontations with people at their low points?
Yeah that's called the Ferguson Effect.
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You have a very weird idea of what 1900% means. From another article:
"According to the city's crime statistics website, Portland had 56 homicides in 2020. In 2019, the number of homicides was 35 and in 2018, it was 26. The FBI has expressed interest in helping police curb gun violence."
Re: Double standard (Score:1)
That depends on what gets cut and wher3 that money goes. And it depends in large part on whether the 10% cut is intended as a prelude to a 100% cut.
Oh look, here's a mainstream news report from a BLM rally this past weekend with people holding signs saying "abolish the police" marching in large numbers together:
https://boston.cbslocal.com/20... [cbslocal.com]
I guess either I'm too stupid to understand the nuanced difference between abolishing law enforcement all at once versus a little at a time, or you're lying to me (or
The point isn't to lower their budget (Score:5, Insightful)
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Police are the ones we grant the right to commit violence too. Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be using them for every little thing that might need a social worker just because we don't like funding social workers.
Are you going to give social workers training in self-defense, and give them body armor to wear?
Our current system is that we send police officers into any unknown situation. If the officers find that the situation is stable and a social worker is needed, they bring in a social worker.
If I unders
Umm. if you were in a major city there *were* (Score:4, Informative)
a) is optional. Many small towns had daily protests you didn't notice because, again, they were entirely peaceful.
Also "Defund the Police" isn't the Anarchist thing you're thinking it is. It just means shift funding to non violent social work. The problem with America is we slashed budgets in the name of Austerity on everything but the Cops, so suddenly the cops were made to do *everything*. This is why you can find videos of cops arresting 6 year old in handcuffs.
What you should be asking yourself is why that terrible slogan was the only one you ever heard. Almost like the dumbest members of BLM were given a megaphone by a hostile media... Naw... couldn't be. That would mean you, me and the entire nation just got played for fools. And you'd see right through that, right?
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No, I live in a big metro area and we had our bout of looting and rioting and torching police cars and throwing fireworks at cops last year. But our blue state has a Republican governor who called up the national guard, stationed them all over Boston, and that looting and rioting happened exaclty zero times afterword, in contrast with Minneapolis and Seattle and Portland where the Democrat governors just let shit burn and let the lawlessness fester
As for what "defund" means, yeah....it *is* an anarchist thi
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Relieved, because it could mean those things might happen. I would probably go out and participate some of the time.
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Though I have no idea what you mean by "an end to the nuclear family". I don't think anyone is advocating the end of people having families.
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Have a look:
http://web-old.archive.org/web... [archive.org]
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and âoevillagesâ that collectively care...
When one sees the world "disrupt" or "interrupt" in "anti-racist" literature like White Fragility, it is usually synonymous with "reject" or "challenge" and is generally a position of antagonism rather than passive disagreement.
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"Mostly peaceful protests":
https://thehill.com/homenews/m... [thehill.com]
Re: Double standard (Score:2, Informative)
If you base your worldview on racist propaganda, well, you might be a racist...
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.
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USERS CLAIM
I'm sure that happened.
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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
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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 multivariate hypothesis (Score:1)
On the subject of multivariate explanations, I'm wondering if there could be something similar to women taking time off for childbirth.
One of the multivariate reasons why women are paid less than men is that they occasionally take time off for childbirth. When they return, they're "behind" their peers in climbing the corporate ladder by that amount of time. Multiply 6 weeks by three or so children, and it puts women about 1/2 a year behind men in developing their careers.
This doesn't seem like much, but in
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0.5/40 = 1.25%. Not 13%. The 87 cents figure is for "the same job" not across the workforce. Differences in career choice aren't relevant to the stat.
Falsifiable hypothesis (Score:3)
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You just vomited out a bunch of lies with no ability to cite any of it.
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Prepare to swallow that vomit, I can cite all of it:
Top 25 Most Dangerous Jobs in America [ishn.com]
The Feminization of Teaching in America [mit.edu]
When Computer Coding Was a 'Woman's' Job [history.com]
Computer Programming Used To Be Women’s Work [smithsonianmag.com]
Changing patterns of male and female nurses' participation in the workforce [nih.gov]
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Secondly, careers like nursing and teaching used to be male dominated (prior to about WW1)
What? The modern profession of nursing was founded by women and was always dominated by women [wikipedia.org]
other careers (like computer programming) used to female dominated back when they were low-paid and underappreciated (go watch the movie Hidden Figures for a taste of what female dominated computing was like). As the profile of the profession was raised, women were forced out and salaries raised.
What? When "computing" was female-dominated, it consisted of repetitive rote work [wikipedia.org] which of course was low-paid. In later decades "computer programming" became a completely different job - the development and implementation of algorithms - which few people are capable of doing and thus is highly paid. (Women are capable of doing this work too, but in Western countries they generally choose not to because it involves little human interaction [slatestarcodex.com])
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Liberals don't want to solve problems. They want to maintain them and milk them for votes in exchange for vague non-quantifiable promises to solve problems. And they count on their voters not being smart enough to see through this.
The last thing the Left wants is to accurately define Racism and make progress towards solving it. Instead they want the ability to declare anything or anyone they don't like to be Racist. Keep the definition loose and all-encompassing enough and this becomes easy.
The Left wants t
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Unfortunately the only liberals that are left that haven't been bullied, guilt-shamed, and assimilated by the leftist hive mind cult are stuck between that and getting lumped in with them by conservatives.
Racism will never get better under a system like this; in fact society gets more divided than before in recent history.
It's worse than that. At this very moment we are awaiting the results of a jury verdict, where the outcome will determine the severity in which American cities will be Burned, Looted, and people Murdered not just in the act of committing crime, but with racist intent to inflict "justice" on innocent victim
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It's hard to hear people call "racism!" over and over, and not think "show me where it is, and we'll fix it".
The grifters who enrich themselves both financially and politically from """social justice""" do not want to fix racism. Those are the loudest voices accusing others of being racist, even as they adopt different standards based on sex and race, and attempt to codify it into law. [wikipedia.org] They very much would like to tell you to go to the back of the bus, and that is "racist" to disobey them.
Can we come up with an actual measurement of racism, and then work to reduce it?
"Black Negros College Fund" is fair and equitable and definitely absolutely not racist. "Whites Only College Fund" is racist an
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Apple is fine making money. They are not trying to dictate what politics you believe in or not. But if you are going to be in their walled garden~ you better be playing by some sort of rules. I don't like Parlor as it is just an echo-chamber for Right wing nuts, but if Parler is able to provide the promised upgrades in moderating and blocking obvious (with a long legal president of) unprotected speech. Then I don't see too much of an issue of them being allowed back in.
I am a big fan of Trust but Verify
I'm not concerned with politics (Score:4, Interesting)
e.g. what I'm saying is you can't divorce Parler from it's extremist roots.
And this isn't a Free Speech issue. It's a private company. Apple is free to do business with Parler. I am free to be disgusted that they would be willing to do so. I will call out Apple for doing business with a company I find abhorrent just as I would if they were doing business with the KKK.
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I am too very concerned about Parler and its cohorts. As much as I would personally delight to see every house waving a yellow flag, to be arrested for the horrible crime of disagreeing with me, and not not following my actual moral values. This really isn't who I am, or what America Stands for. We need to have a degree of tolerance towards people who we cannot stand, and give them some benefit of the doubt.
These sites run by bad people for bad people isn't the problem, the problem is we seem to be missi
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Planned parenthood started with racist leanings. Does that taint them forever?
It didn't really (Score:2)
Maybe in 110 years Parler might not be a corporate funded den of extremism, but that doesn't seem like a chance worth taking. When PP started they were literally the 1st birth control clinic in America. Parler isn't the 1st anything. Even 4chan beat them to being an extremist cess pool.
So no, it's not a fair compariso
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Parler isn't adding anything positive to the national conversation, nor was it intended to. It's there to cause trouble.
Not unlike other social media.
Quite a few of our lawmakers abuse the shit out of Twitter as if it was a government-issued bullhorn that is now required for the damn job.
Tweets used to have the power to move bowels over a toilet. Now the wrong tweet has the power to move entire countries to war. What the hell is wrong with this picture...
That's how it works. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not just Parler (Score:4, Insightful)
For example, the reddit app on iOS has to filter out "adult" posts from people accessing from iOS devices, or their app will be banned.
That is completely incorrect. You can definitely access adult content on the official Reddit iOS app. I just tested it out... for research. It calls into question the accuracy of the rest of your post.
Until the next time (Score:2)
and nothing of any value (Score:2)
Really? (Score:1)
Re: Good to see the Klan has it's platform again! (Score:2)
And autocorrect steals the message again...
Hope no more treason... (Score:2)
Hopefully Parler will be able to stop its extremist users from trying to overthrow America again.
Hate Speech Free Speech (Score:2)
The nimrods on Parler are the asswipes I prefer to avoid in my day-to-day life. Disappointing to see Apple support their platform.
#PunchNazis
hate speech (Score:1)
It should be noted that "hate speech" has no legal definition or standing in America. Even every attempt to establish a precedent about it has been struck down as unconstitutional in America, and rightly so. Saying you "hate " and think they should be removed from office is protected speech, and should be.
The only "hate speech" policies that exist are private tech companies enforcing it as they see fit (in a very biased way).
Violation of "hate speech" policies isn't unlawful. It's just ToS violation.
Let Parler back in the App Store.. (Score:1)