70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by albertgoeswoof on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:56AM (#25729632)

back up a little here. I can find Parler on Google. Does that mean google should be shut down and everyone who supports it shut down as well?

Twitter is used for this kind of thing too. So is whatsapp, signal, telegram etc.

Do we ban all Trump marches/meetups just in case those are used as platforms to organize violence? Why don't we just ban meeting up in public for everyone who voted trump because people can use their mouths to arrange violent mobs too.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by devwastaken on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:17AM (#25729999)

Google is not in control of the content on parler. Google does remove websites from it's listings.

There's no relationship in what you're saying. Parler is responsible for content on it's platform. It doesn't matter if it's supposedly "neutral" or not.

Parler is a social media app, not a messaging app like signal. People don't go to signal for their latest fake news, they would go to parler and be swayed by a mob of people that continually build off of each other's aggressive behavior. It was a closed loop of people that didn't like being told they're wrong.

There's nothing neutral about parler either, their user base is no mistake. It's entirely intentional, you can't hide behind "freedom of speech" when you're marketing your platform for this behavior.

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