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by NeonVice 1974 days ago
Many users wanted a free (as in freedom) platform and Parler provided it.

Parler wasn't intolerant. Parler wasn't advocating for Twitter to be taken offline.

Based on his heart tweet, Jack sure was happy when Parler was removed from the App Store. Jack is the intolerant one.
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tstrimple 1974 days ago
No, Parler wasn't a platform for "freedom". It was a platform for right wing ideologues and frequently banned left wing content but had trouble cleaning up death threats.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...

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NeonVice 1974 days ago
Twitter can't clean up that garbage either and is also used by extremists. However, Twitter has not been deplatformed.
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_kbh_ 1973 days ago
I don’t think the right wing platform that was kicking up dangerous conspiracy theories which was funded by the same people as Cambridge Analytica was a “free speech platform”. It surely marketed itself as that though.
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