Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by molbioguy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:41AM
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This is misleading. The ID requirements were there to provide a 'verified' account status similar to Twitter's blue check mark. It wasn't some arbitrary requirement. I bet Twitter requires this as well for the verified status.
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Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by ashtonkem on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:55AM
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Their supposed free speech absolutism was just PR puffery. They absolutely banned political accounts.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by germinalphrase on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:51AM
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Could you post without providing that ID?
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by molbioguy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:17AM
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To the best of my knowledge, yes.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by lallysingh on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:52AM
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They shouldn't have had verified status.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:05AM
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Couldn’t they have done both? A verified status for the same reasons Twitter does, and properly handled the information. It should have been a verified account once and complete destruction of the submitted data. It obviously should never have been kept indefinitely and unencrypted.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by lallysingh on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:12AM
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If they could properly handle the data, they would have.
Re:Parler CEO says he was fired by board
by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:02AM
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Agreed, but to the last point, if anyone is trying to make the comparison that Twitter is a free speech platform they are a complete lunatic.