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Why stop there? I'll add more to the list of Parler transgressions: 1. They live streamed NZ Mosque Shooter. https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/444349-christchu

Why stop there? I'll add more to the list of Parler transgressions: 1. They live streamed NZ Mosque Shooter. https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/444349-christchurch-shooter-live-streamed-mosque-firing-on-facebook https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/444349-christchurch-shoote... 2. They helped ISIS in propagating terror material for 2 full years. They allowed ISIS to post beheading videos and threaten the then President of the United States Barack Obama. They even got sued for it but took protection behind Section 230: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-isis-lawsuit-idUSKCN0US1TA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-isis-lawsuit-idUS... and https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/twitter-facebook-google-lawsuit-isis/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/twitter-facebook... and https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goes-viral/501125/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goe... 3. It was used to incite Genocide of an ethnic group causing mass migrations: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo... 4. They were party to toppling of foreign Governments: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/can-social-networking-overthrow-a-government-20110225-1b7u6.html https://www.smh.com.au/technology/can-social-networking-over... 5. They were used by foreign Governments to censor Citizens and Oppositon: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/16/it-exists-to-demobilise-opposition-how-twitter-fails-arabs https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/16/it-exists-to-demobi... > They banned themselves. Oh yes they banned themselves. The proof I have given above validates your point. I am wrong, you are right! Congratulations!

Veen 6y ago
Is your point that Facebook and Twitter are just as culpable as Parler but held to a different standard?
- shripadk 6y ago
  Exactly. Thanks for getting my point. Let us assume that the entire US Capitol plot was hatched in Parler. Even then that is just 1 transgression. Compare it to the history of social media enabling violence and that list runs into hundreds if not thousands (if you factor in the entire World). I haven't even covered threats of school shootings and other stuff that often gets overlooked. When regime change happens in Middle Eastern countries Twitter was lauded for being a platform for voice of the oppressed. As long as it doesn't happen in America we should rejoice social media playing a pivotal role. The moment the same "Arab Spring" like situation strikes home all hell breaks loose.

Veen 6y ago

Is your point that Facebook and Twitter are just as culpable as Parler but held to a different standard?

shripadk 6y ago
Exactly. Thanks for getting my point. Let us assume that the entire US Capitol plot was hatched in Parler. Even then that is just 1 transgression. Compare it to the history of social media enabling violence and that list runs into hundreds if not thousands (if you factor in the entire World). I haven't even covered threats of school shootings and other stuff that often gets overlooked. When regime change happens in Middle Eastern countries Twitter was lauded for being a platform for voice of the oppressed. As long as it doesn't happen in America we should rejoice social media playing a pivotal role. The moment the same "Arab Spring" like situation strikes home all hell breaks loose.