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Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by ttt0 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:20PM (#26145443)
> In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views.

You can even get fired for having an account there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922486

Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by XorNot on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:25PM (#26145501)
And yet mysteriously I'm fairly certain that person didn't just "have" an account there...
Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by throwaway19937 on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:47PM (#26148623)
I haven't found any evidence that she posted anything offensive.

According to (https://reclaimthenet.org/literary-agent-fired-gab-parler/) and (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924637) her Gab and Parler posts were mirrored from Twitter.

Newsweek's story on the firing (https://www.newsweek.com/literary-agents-firing-over-parler-...) doesn't mention any offensive posts on Gab.

None of the Reddit discussions I have looked at mention any offensive posts either; I would expect Reddit to find such posts if they had existed.

Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by ttt0 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:26PM (#26145525)
I have no idea, but neither did the people who fired this person. It was purely on the grounds that he had an account there.
Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by cobraetor on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:55PM (#26147231)
She, not he.

> Colleen Oefelein, who identified herself on Twitter as an associate literary agent with the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, appeared to confirm her termination in a tweet on Monday morning.

> "Well thanks Twitter and @JDLitAgency," Oefelein wrote. "I just got fired because I'm a Christian and a conservative."

Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by justinhj on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:39PM (#26161028)
"The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency was distressed to discover this morning, January 25th, that one of our agents has been using the social media platforms Gab and Parler."
Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime by vineyardmike on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:00PM (#26146580)
I had the same thought...