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Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by BearOso on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:56PM (#25817930)
The person who scraped the site pointed out that users started out shadow-banned, and were only unmuted after it was confirmed their posts fit a certain profile. That’s definitely not neutral.

Reference: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by deno on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:23AM (#25820264)
All your reference shows is all politically-neutral anti-SPAM categories[1]. Compare this with Twitter’s internal moderation tool[2] and their granular suppression capabilities which appear deliberately prone to abuse.

[1] https://nitter.mastodont.cat/pic/media%2FEq_b25LXMAEwtNZ.jpg...

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/shinj...

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by invisible on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:45AM (#25820754)
This list of “moderators” is pretty damning (if we’re talking about neutrality):

https://gist.github.com/d0nk/ef4e58645d3250851491e4550cb16e2...

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by deno on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:31AM (#25822112)
As opposed to Twitter which is known for hiring conservative moderators as they strive for neutrality.

I don’t know if the moderation log is in the leaks, but that’s something that you could draw some conclusions from. So far all this is conjecture.

Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by invisible on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:03PM (#25823800)
I don’t think this particular conjecture is that sensational and backs up what Amazon has already claimed. This list of moderators overwhelmingly are Republicans/conservatives and some of them make concerning assertions in their bios.
Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by deno on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:57AM (#25869767)
I said it’s conjecture and you don’t disagree. I’ll leave it to you how sensational it is. I have biases but I would have no problem in moderating without them as above else I believe in free speech, so this argument is not very convincing, personally. You might be right, though, I’ve never used Parler, so IDK. But evidence is evidence and that Twitter statement was dishonest.