There was a long thread on Twitter by entrepreneur/activist Dave Troy (currently a TedX organizer) that looks for patterns in the first several thousand accounts.
https://mobile.twitter.com/davetroy/status/13272539919364546...
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#22There was a long thread on Twitter by entrepreneur/activist Dave Troy (currently a TedX organizer) that looks for patterns in the first several thousand accounts. https://mobile.twitter.com/davetroy/status/13272539919364546...
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#23Of course I have conservative (and pretty reasonable) friends who have made a declaration on FB that they're moving to Parler because they're concerned about "big tech's" controls on free speech. I checked it out and I'm pretty sure a big issue will be that it's going to attract an audience and subsequent content that national brands aren't going to consider brand safe. So if they find a model, I can't imagine it's g…
Everybody who cares about free speech is moving there. Free speech isn't restricted to the right is it? It's a fundamental human right.
What about Parler makes it better than FB with respect to free speech?
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#24" I predicted all of this, you know. All of it. " Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to lead to the creation of platforms that cater to the deplatformed, even if only because it makes business sense to provide service to the underserved. And, if the cultural and political winds blow the wrong way, it's not impossible for them to eclipse the soci…
>The deplatformers footgunned themselves, all while patting each other on the back.
What? Did anyone say that being banned from a website was a laser gun that deleted people from the internet?. This has happened before and will happen again (see Gab for a very recent example)
The most probable outcome is Voat 2: Electric Boogaloo, or not even that considering that the website is stuck on it's logo for me.
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> Evil as the Left might be...
Demonizing those you disagree with might make you feel good, and may even have short-term gains, but it’s a long-term loser: At each stage — win or lose — your side fragments and each side turns on the other, demonizing each other. Wins reach a natural maxima. Losses build on each other and accelerate the downward trend.
Ultimately, the divisiveness of that approach is self-defeating. You can’t sustain a cohesive movement long enough to do anything of value.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody who cares about free speech is moving there. Free speech isn't restricted to the right is it? It's a fundamental human right.
What about Parler makes it better than FB with respect to free speech?
They don't censor conservatives because of their opinions.
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#27Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
Tim Pool discussed this a lot on YouTube. Also presented lots of evidence.
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#29Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
Are you serious? They censor the President's tweets. Isn't that showing?
His tweets get hidden because they contain false claims about the election and thinly-veiled calls for violence, not because they present a conservative viewpoint. We're talking about Trump here, not George Will.
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#30Missed opportunity to call it "Racebook"