Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Post by f430 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

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Look the RCMP isn't going to raid a startup because they find human rights violation going on Sure we got watchdogs but those are meant for blue collar workers with union. > However, Canada is also filled with self-righteous descendants (I mean it culturally) of puritans who take it upon themselves to adjudicate others. I 100% AGREE. When I dated an 18yo everybody flipped and said I was the worst. > (Quebec excepted.…

I have to say... that having this conversation flip to you talking about your love for the youngest legally permissible women is very disconcerting.

Post by baybal2 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

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Tbf, I don't think Parler ever saw itself as extremist. Obviously it was used by extremists, but as I've seen mentioned in other threads lately: When you create an alternative platform from the mainstream, the people who join it are either idealists, or are the people who were banned from the mainstream platforms. And if you don't have the resources to moderate those extremists (or foolishly choose not to), the extre…

The CEO literally was personally banning anyone who posted anything left-wing, and yet claims that he's for "free speech". It's laughable. If he wasn't cynically cashing in, then he's not a very deep thinker either. https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/27/parlers-f... They literally welcomed pro-saudi comment farms to their service as well: “The nationalist movement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made…

Post by Shared404 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:43 AM UTC

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A different take on Parler's connection (or not) to the events of 6 Jan 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20210112145206/https://greenwald...

That's just, like, his opinion man. Let's see what comes out of this data dump before getting too sanguine about loss of "free speech".

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:48 AM UTC

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Or, more charitably: your stance on information and freedom simply isn’t absolutist.

Free Speech isn't a thing that applies to Internet companies, only the government and how they must deal with people who wish to speak in public forums. Internet providers and services aren't "public forums" given their infrastructure is not a public space, but a private space they control. Whether or not someone thinks these services are "censoring" things or not isn't a real argument, again for the reason it must b…

Post by stouset » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:52 AM UTC

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Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kvx88n/oc_...