The Rise of Parler
As the leftist masters of social media censor and deny free speech, there arises a new player in the arena of online discussion. It is called "Parlor" and it has grown quickly once Twitter began slapping warning labels on comments.
"It has exploded in popularity, doubling its members to 10 million during the month of November — although it is still dwarfed by Twitter’s roughly 330 million monthly active users ."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-parler-conservative-social-media-20201204-abhs3nev7nhrrois5n5ghh42hm-story.html
It is now the #1 free app on the iOS App Store. Unlike the two progressive giants who control most of social media, Parlor does not censor, though it does have simple straightforward rules which follow American law. If it's illegal you can't do it - it's that simple, but you do have all of your 1st Amendment rights.
It was founded in 2018, not a moment too soon by John Matze and Jared Thomson.
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I am not taking a side here. I suppose the choice we face is to allow just about anything & everything or censor what someone subjectively decides is fact or fiction or otherwise fit for discussion. That is unfortunately where we are. Biased censorship is what got us here. Social media exercised extreme bias in shutting down the New York Post story on Hunter Biden.
Whatever happens now flows from that single act.
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Will it survive? Will it continue to grow?
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Trump and his supporters are off topic
I have neither the need nor desire to have a smart phone.
Any other options?/
I think you have the option to use either a phone or laptop/PC for Parler. Here's more info:
It's an information generation. Luddites need not apply.
Homing pigeon ?
me too, but the nuttery is too strong to hang around.
More room for the 80 million who voted for a liberal in this presidential election! Just so you know, something 'space' can in fact bring clarity to an otherwise regrettable set of circumstances.
I am glad you can find a measure of happiness. Hey! Is lying morally reprehensible? Is lying a sin? Does Parler accept lies as a 'high mark'? How frustratingly difficult it ought to be verifying everything you read. Vetting is done there, yes?
Well, fancy that! Twitter bans Donald and has no expectation that his fans will follow him off where ever he goes. I would have to say that when and should Twitter ban Trump it would be corporate malfeasance to not know numbers will take a large hit! So what does that suggest to you?
Seems like censorship to me.
If Trump and his supporters are off topic, why aren't Biden and Harris and their supporters off topic?
There are a few members here whom I think would be much more comfortable on Parler or another such site than they seem to be here, so I wonder why they just don't go there and leave those of us who prefer sensible restrictions here i.e. discussion and interests other than just politics and religion and slamming those who don't agree with them.
The biggest flagger complains of censorship?
Yes I do, but I don't post an article that champions one that does not censor, and then censor only one side of a political divide.
Are you his lawyer?
Why have I seen so many critical and/or insulting comments about "Basement Joe" or "Sleepy Joe" or "the ho"? Here are a few from articles that are still up on the home page but I don't intend to waste a lot of my time with this. I really prefer spending my time posting articles about movies or music or photography or literature or travel to this stuff.
Now, Trump is the POTUS, and has been doing a lot of things lately because he is in the position to do a lot of things that Biden is NOT in a position to do, and so maybe he makes himself a much bigger target, and many of the things that Trump has been doing are things that that SOME people find are repulsive, such as demolishing the reputation of America's democracy, and just throwing roadblocks into Biden's pathway to trying to get things going right in the USA. I assume it is so he can point at Biden's having to stumble over the roadblocks so he can say "See what a mistake you made." and use it all to criticize Biden's problems that Trump caused for when he runs again in 2024.
But you feel that nobody can criticize Trump because nobody is critical of Biden?
Since I been here we've had a few hate-filled leftists go on and on about Trump 24/7 and most recently, about his supporters. They told me that it's allowed.
Here's the thing Buzz:
When I called progressives scum - I got a ticket.
How do you explain that, Buzz?
How do you explain the fact that you got away with calling people racist's here in defense of that brutal regime you try and defend?
Another personal attack?
Conservatives have been ticketed on WTP. You've got away with shit here. The problem might just be that most of those nasty comments that seek to derail/insult are coming from the left.
Because hate flows from the left.
Sounds like it will end in chaos, but 'buckets' and bags of money will be had all around getting to that point. Money can buy a whole lot of acceptance of chaos. However, integrity is its own reward.
I wonder if that's what people said about FB and Twitter when they first started?
Yep, that's left-wing FB and Twitter!
Chaos. Even this article comes @1 with a set of rules and caveats.
oh the ironey
Yep. It is self-defeating to attempt to operate without rules-as the statement "without rules" is a rule.
Actually, I was there at the very start of FB. It was just a place to stay connected with friends, sans politics. My younger cousins in England got me to join as a way of sending photos and poking each other ( that is all you could do back then).
I read that Parler is a haven for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. That can't be a good thing.
That sounds like something that radical left and "cancel culture" media would publish in order to disparage a new social media platform they disagree with. Please read the link I posted in comment 1.1.1 for truth and facts.
Try joining and visiting the site for their versions of truth and facts.
There isn't much there.
Read a link YOU posted for truth and facts?
Back on Earth...
From the Simon Wiesenthal Center report, "Parler: An Unbiased Social Platform?", November 2020
"Anti-Semitism
To date, Parler has allowed users to express anti-Semitic beliefs and conspiracies. These users frequently
allege that Jewish people are responsible for many of the ills facing the world, including mass immigration,
COVID-19, child trafficking and civil unrest. These allegations are updated manifestations of old anti-Semitic
conspiracies which have accused that a secret Jewish cabal controls the world for political and financial
gain. Many posts feature stereotypical caricatures intended to mock and demonize Jewish people. Some
indicate Jewish control or Jewish individuals by using the three parentheses (((“echo”))) to highlight
particular words or names. Other posts are even more explicitly anti-Semitic, contending Jews worship at
the “Synagogue of Satan” or dehumanizing Jews as parasites.
Holocaust denial
There are also multiple accounts promoting Holocaust denial on Parler. Some use Parler to share posts with
their own content about the Holocaust, while others link to external sites and repositories to disseminate
Holocaust denial material. Many use the hashtag #holohoax which groups the content together. Posts
promote various Holocaust denial conspiracies, arguing that the gas chambers were a hoax and that six
million Jews did not die. Some posit that the Jews invented the idea of a Holocaust for political and financial
gain - a favorite screed of the Holocaust denying Iranian regime of the Ayatollah Khamenei."
Sorry, my integrity forced me to delete my Parler account.
Well, now we know who the individuals are on this site who agree with those things since they say Parler is such a good site and celebrate being members of it. What I expect as replies to this comment from those who support Parler by retaining their membership is going to be like taking off their white sheets and saying we don't believe in EVERYTHING the KKK does and says.
that's true of any right wing dominated organization, it follows it would apply to their media apps as well. Heated Discussions is an option for "free speech" here on NT, since it isn't censored.
Pedophiles as well.
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i have to try that "heated discussion" some time
I think you might enjoy it Iggy. With no moderation it might be right up your alley. Some of us have a lot of fun there.
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how i did it
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cause i don't often say maybe...maybe
LOL! But see.....that is why you would be so much fun to be with in the HD group. It's no holds barred and only those still in diapers have a hard time dealing with the discussions there. And there are a few of those, but, they don't hang there long. Those of us who like to sort of play around together hang out there at times, and have some fun.
You can try it out if you like and see if you would like it. If not, you aren't obligated to stay there.
I think you'd be great fun there.
i'm great fun any where
for most, but not a hollow boast, as i'm full of it, not hollowed whence out and about, cause that's where i B Headed, so have a good night, and yes, i must give it a try, cause every one deserves to Dye
their hair, cause i'm colorful, in black and white width the times of the lowest height,
cause to me, all areas can be made wrongly right via letters written, cause i'm not smitten, bit will submit writing, and how wrongly it can be achieved, via letters written worth Gazillions, but never one worth knot ascent to knew heights for those fallen, for that which the letters i wrote, but were never picked up by those that nose, cause asz the pick, letters i never sent, or meant, it's sentimental to me, and m=not essential that they don't see, or smell, what the rock is cookin from the depths of my molten Hell of a good time, to leave
this one KNOT aloan , till i B back to keep it compANY, causes, without interest are the THINGS, i like to keep SACRED
Then I will watch for you in HD, and look forward to seeing you there one day soon.
Well, we can look to our history to determine what can happen when we devalue facts and truths, as allowing about anything and everything gets you a set of founding fathers who partially could not agree that Africans of their day were people.
To the shame of this nation, as long as there is a constitutional writ that tinge of scientific racism will shame those who generationally believed and taught others to believe and accept that some people can be sub-humans.
Now then, what is it some conservatives are flocking to Parler to discuss, that is not allowed anywhere else?
Oh, I see, what a shame.