[nilkn]

Because they're not going to investigate all 4+ million Parler accounts to distinguish between those involved and those not. Many folks here are just assuming everyone on Parler was a terrorist or complicit in what happened. The poster's name and phone number are now lumped in with everyone else's. All we can hope is they made the effort to use fake information.

[evgen]

No one will be judged for having an account, because a lot of people were signed up just to monitor and watch. It is trivial to claim that you only signed up for that reason and to expect the claim to stick. If you happened to be frequently posting the chronicles of the elders of zion or talking about how you wanted to pursue an ammo box solution to a ballot box loss then you are going to have a lot more explaining to do.

[cbozeman]

> No one will be judged for having an account, because a lot of people were signed up just to monitor and watch.

Just like certain subreddits weren't banning people just for having posted in certain other subreddits, even if those posts were opposition posts, right?

I think you need to read more Jonathan Haidt, because research shows you're flat out wrong about this.

[nilkn]

I definitely hope that your analysis here is the prevailing one.

[jacquesm]

I'd hope it would take a bit more than 'present' to be handed a sentence. But time will tell.