Re:Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler
by tenebrisalietum on Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:07PM
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The terms of service PDF is really clear on what and what is not allowed.
Particularly interesting were links to the US Entity list of defined terriorist organizations. Downloadable in a text file (and it's large).
Since it's not pseudo-anonymous like Voat, and is also being endorsed pretty much by politicians, I think it won't fall into the same traps. I think it's going to become a de facto pipeline to politicians though.
The Terms of Service sound like the vision of a social media network after a Section 230 crackdown.
This happened with the mass exodus from Reddit to Voat of r/the_donald and similar, and I absolutely can see it happening here. Voat became host to a ton of toxic communities.
And because of that, it's going to push more orthodox people people away from the site towards Twitter in a self-reinforcing loop.
The plan for the site to get a broad range of opinions (in this case, the bounty of $20k for a prominent liberal) seems doomed as a result.
Still - hopefully the founders have learned from Voat and have plans in action to stop it before it gets too stuck in the cycle. The bounty is an interesting idea, though I don't think it'll be strong enough to break the perverse social dynamics involved. More competition with Twitter is a good thing.