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

Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by burntsushi on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:33PM (#25734978)

I think you're missing the point. /r/conservative censoring views or users is just fine. They can define the norms of their own community and enforce them.

Just don't hypocritically declare that other people can't also do the same. That's the point here. The hypocrisy.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by kyrra on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:09PM (#25735734)

If you read messages from the moderators, its normally not about censoring, it's more about keeping up with moderating content. That sub is heavily brigaded (I saw some based that was at 17% upvote). And any sub that has toxic comments on it will be removed by the admins. Going flare only makes their job way easier.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by yifanl on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:01PM (#25736860)

If the only thing it takes for censorship to not be censorship is that it'd make the lives of those in charge easier, then censorship doesn't exist.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by jackson1442 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:14AM (#25742596)

Saying this implies that anyone can get a flair, so long as they are not brigading. This is not true, even according to the moderator comments. "Only mods can assign User Flair, and User Flair is only for conservatives"[0].

So no, going flair-only is explicitly to silence those of differing opinions.

Don't get me wrong, they are well within their rights to do so, it is _their_ subreddit, after all. However, if they're going to dance around and act like a bastion of free speech, maybe it's time for some introspection.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/wiki/index/flair_rules...

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by refurb on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:45PM (#25740661)

This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform.

That's what the OP was referring to. If everyone is going to call out Parler for being a propaganda channel, then apply the same standards to Democratic Underground, r/politics, r/antifa, etc.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by runarberg on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:57PM (#25741284)

How cute, you think antifa are democrats.

But sure call it propaganda if you wish. Perhaps it is. Many anarchists such as my self are well aware of the propaganda we proactively distribute on a daily basis.

What the ancestor is complaining about is that when the right wing does propaganda, it is not called propaganda, it is called free speech.

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