Any viable social media competitor needs critical mass. A conservative exodus to Parler would be one way to make that happen. Big tech just squashed a competitor while the "iron was hot" for Parler and even if it comes back online it might never get the network effect it could have gotten.

lobste.rs seems to be doing fine as a discussion site aimed at technologists.

This "hypergrowth at all costs" mindset is pretty suffocating. There's plenty of niche sites that are successful without the need of trying to be the biggest in the world.

Then maybe it's worth taking the whole thread into consideration.

The zero arrests comment probably is incorrect, but, does that take away from the larger point, especially with regards to the context of the nyt article?

Tl;dr: he made a lot of tweets on this subject. Cherry picking one part of one tweet doesn't say much about his overall point.

Greenwald cannot object to cherry picking and ignoring context without being a hypocrite.