Facebook Incubated the Insurrection

Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by notahacker on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:45PM (#25780382)

Parler's entire marketing schtick was that it was a haven for 'free speech' that might get you banned or fact checked on other networks. Yes, in practice its pretensions to "free speech" were pure pretence and there was a list of things Parler would delete and ban you for, like posting pictures of shit, as well as things it wouldn't, like comparing other races to shit.

But having based its entire marketing around its terms of service being unlike other providers, with a particular emphasis on its greater level of tolerance for certain forms of political extremism, with predictable consequences for the community, it's obviously not in a position to use the "but we're no different from Twitter" defence

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by nobody9999 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:23PM (#25786176)

>Parler's entire marketing schtick was that it was a haven for 'free speech' that might get you banned or fact checked on other networks.

Note that "free speech" in the US is far from absolute. And there is some speech that, if Parler (or anyone else) doesn't remove it, they can be subject to criminal (e.g., child porn, setting up drug deals, etc.) and/or civil (copyright violations) litigation.

As such, anyone who claims they don't moderate is probably lying, unless they want to go to jail, get sued into oblivion or both.

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