That statement by De Chiara is going to cost them a lot of money as that statement is prima facie a violation of any number of employment laws. If had identified specifically objectionable content, it would at least be a case.
Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
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Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#12I feel like my choice to not participate in non-anonymous social media in any but the absolute most bland and uninteresting ways is the best long running decision I've ever made. The end of anonymized internet is the end of my participation in it and sadly I think that day is fast approaching.
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Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#13I feel like my choice to not participate in non-anonymous social media in any but the absolute most bland and uninteresting ways is the best long running decision I've ever made. The end of anonymized internet is the end of my participation in it and sadly I think that day is fast approaching.
but if a future employer asks to see some social credentials and they don't see any, they ll be suspicious
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Parler was passed around in many conversations with everyday, normal people who signed up thinking "I'll check this out". Signing up wasn't some pact with evil to them.
And there are plenty of fascists on Twitter.
Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#15Reminds me of Dawn Frederick, a literary agent who was "cancelled" for calling 911 on looters who rammed a van into the gas station on her apartment block: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p... This happened during the BLM protests this summer in St. Loius. The looters she reported were blocks away from any BLM protest, and other looting bands were setting fires on nearby blocks. Frederick w…
I honestly don't know why people use "post what you're thinking" style social media at all at this point. With employers being so sensitive, how can the cost/benefit analysis ever really result in a determination that it's a good idea to be active on Twitter/Facebook (or Gab, Parler, TheDonald.win, etc.)?
Maybe that's part of what makes things get so extreme on those sites. The most reasonable people know enough not to risk their livelihoods by jumping in and posting, and that leaves the less reasonable people to just sit there and escalate.
Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#16Frequently I feel that there is a conflation of the inherent attributes of a platform like Gab or Parler, and its user base. Though they may pitch themselves at a certian audience, social media platforms don't ultimately get to choose their users, and I'm not sure to what extent it is fair to judge them by their users. If we do judge them by their users (and I don't mean to sound like I'm criticizing Gab/Parler users here, it's entirely hypothetical) then you can have perverse outcomes, eg one way to shut down a social media site would be to have bots purporting to be, say, militia members spam it with messages. I've not done a great deal of research, but prima facie it seems like Parler actually had some quite attractive inherent characteristics, eg they were good on privacy and didn't monetize your data. On the other hand, to say that something like 4chan is inherently neutral and that the demographic of their users is nothing to do with them feels like it's taking the arguemnt too far.
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So she installed 2 apps, which has millions of people on it and lets them discuss diverse topics, and you associate her with nazi's?
How did the intelligence/reasoning of people fall so low that they are so blinded by their political association?
Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#18I feel like my choice to not participate in non-anonymous social media in any but the absolute most bland and uninteresting ways is the best long running decision I've ever made. The end of anonymized internet is the end of my participation in it and sadly I think that day is fast approaching.
but if a future employer asks to see some social credentials and they don't see any, they ll be suspicious
If said employer is asking for your private social media, then they're probably not worth working for anyway.
Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
#19Reminds me of Dawn Frederick, a literary agent who was "cancelled" for calling 911 on looters who rammed a van into the gas station on her apartment block: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p... This happened during the BLM protests this summer in St. Loius. The looters she reported were blocks away from any BLM protest, and other looting bands were setting fires on nearby blocks. Frederick w…
The phenomenon is called "purity spiral", and it's absolutely maddening. Here's a good article on it: https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...
Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
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Parler was passed around in many conversations with everyday, normal people who signed up thinking "I'll check this out". Signing up wasn't some pact with evil to them. And there are plenty of fascists on Twitter.
But from everything I've heard from people who have signed up thinking "I'll check this out," the net response is, "oh my God, this is so much worse than I could have ever imagined."