Facebook Incubated the Insurrection

Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by watwut on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:14PM (#25780822)

The big difference is whether platform refuses to moderate those .05% on Parler. Afaik, twitter for all its moderation flaws is not refusing to moderate those and reacts to big real world events significantly more quickly. And yes, twitter did deleted accounts and tweets of people who called for violence during summer. Maybe not perfectly and plus some ambiguous accounts ended closed too, but twitter did put real effort into it.

Arguing as of the two were equal two is lacking even basic attempt at nuance.

Parler was created because that content was booted from twitter, reddit and public facebook discussion. Literally. So acting like Twitter is the same is unfair despite Twitter deficiciencies.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by mancerayder on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:08PM (#25783383)

Parler was created because there's a perception of biased censorship on Twitter. Never used Parler but can confirm there is a ton of hateful content and calls for violence on Twitter. I'm sorry you think it's unfair to compare the two, because anyone who cares an iota about fairness and censorship would prioritize the comparison.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by watwut on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:01AM (#25789399)

You cant really claim that Parler would even attempt fair moderation. Its moderation was very biased, intentionally so actually.

> because anyone who cares an iota about fairness and censorship would prioritize the comparison.

Anyone who cares about fairness and censorship would first look at Parler moderation, then at Twitters one and only then made comparison. Not even looking at Parler and then claiming that "it is totally same and unbiased because that would confirm my pre-existing bias" is opposite of fair and opposite of nuanced.

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