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by throwawaysea 1938 days ago
The number of messages on Parler that had content like that was probably very limited. You’re cherry picking one message on a platform with double digit millions of users to paint a certain picture. But let’s not forget about all the violence in BLM riots over the last year, much of which was organized and popularized on social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook, who all get a pass.

And yes it is a free speech issue when several companies that have left leaning cultures and leaders take concurrent actions to block a right leaning platform that mostly carries fully legal speech.
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sellyme 1938 days ago
> The number of messages on Parler that had content like that was probably very limited.

Why are you saying "probably"? A lot of it was backed up. You can go check for yourself, it was very markedly not limited.

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throwawaysea 1938 days ago
Feel free to share your hard evidence, with comparisons to total number of users and total message volume. Until then, you're making an unproven claim.
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hidarinokutsu 1938 days ago
r/ParlerWatch has been surfacing violent threats for months, long before the Capitol riot.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/

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barbacoa 1938 days ago
>not forget about all the violence in BLM riots over the last year, much of which was organized and popularized on social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook, who all get a pass.

Elaborating on that:

There was a mass shooting in New Zealand that was live streamed on Facebook. Now, imagine for a moment, what the public response would be if that had been on parler.

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