We can’t talk to them on Parler. It’s just an echo chamber. We’ve killed free discourse between opposite political ideologies.

That was already dead, I mean the_donald spamming the front page to perfectly align "GOD EMPEROR" or whatever before reddit had to change their front page algorithm was not discourse.

And this is now, after people are distracted by social media. American Political discourse died soon after Fox news came on the stage. People seem to have forgotten how that era was because this era is simply worse.

Fox has been around for quite a while, and it was never “QAnon level crazy”. Fox was here since the Bush era, and I regularly had political debates and discussions with people I disagreed with back then. Sure, I could have never turned a Republican against the war, but I certainly was able to find common ground on PATRIOT/etc. Not anymore.

As I said its gotten worse, the trend is undeniable.

I mean take a look at some of the greatest hits - it was the FOX news cycle that gave credence to creationism and the debate whether Evolution existed worked. Remember "teach the debate"?

This was a level of FUD that completely outperformed previous work which simply distracted or confused over more recent science like climate change.

Here an entirely established piece of science which is used everyday, even now in vaccines - was made invalid.

The divorce from reality was achieved by lots of hard work by ad and content people, along with the news networks.

They can, but let's not pretend that Parler won't be targeted for destruction somehow if it gets a critical mass of users. We've seen this strategy employed before on right-wing platforms that catch too much negative media attention. Their infrastructure platforms will be targeted, their distribution channels will be targeted, their payment systems will be targeted, their code licenses will be targeted, the media will try to dig up whatever negative stories about the firm or its owners that they can, etc. Eventually some platform will be able to resist this but it's an ugly process.