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Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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To be fair, it's probably hard for a network like Parler to attract top talent. I mean, they explicitly advertised themselves as the "free speech social network" (i.e. "all hate speech welcome, we won't censor anyone except maybe Trump parody accounts") - would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future?

There are many talented engineers all across the political spectrum.

This isn’t untrue but the distribution matters. Most of the conservative-leaning engineers I’ve known tended to be libertarian and/or rule of law types who wouldn’t work for a place like Parler. If you’re a devoted capitalist, you might favor larger companies with better pay. And, of course, if you’re not all of white, straight, Christian, and male you might reasonably have concerns which would not have stopped you from taking a job from, say, Mitt Romney.

Each degree you move to an extreme has a fair impact on your ability to hire the best in a very competitive market. Even if you’re a movement conservative a prudent question is how something on your resume might affect your future earning potential.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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> It is literally the same as Twitter. Pretty much. What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS.

Please send me twitter links of people conspiring to commit violence so I can report them.

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Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Have to been on Reddit, specifically /r/politics? There are calls to violence all the time . Nobody bats an eye because it's calls to violence against the "bad guys."

I assume you've got some citations for that, right? I have been to r/politics and people get banned pretty quickly for calling for violence. I just went through the top 20 threads, and there isn't a single call for violence to be found.

I am not going to go through and find some examples but there have been calls for violence there. I remember the entire Sandman period of time with many people saying he "what a punchable face"....

Edit to add: Also what happens behind doors on invite only subreddits?

Edit to add further: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/bmtdqb/ch...

CHapoTrapHouse got banned but....CTH is invite only.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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> It is literally the same as Twitter. Pretty much. What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS.

Please send me twitter links of people conspiring to commit violence so I can report them.

I've reported plenty of people saying awful things about killing black people & jews on Twitter. It's definitely there.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Unfortunately you won't find much interesting commentary in a politically charged thread like this, best to just scan and pattern match the kind of exchanges occurring before moving swiftly along.

> best to just scan and pattern match the kind of exchanges occurring before moving swiftly along. How do you do that? I've noticed lately that HN commentary (at least in threads like this) has trended increasingly pro-censorship[1] lately, and it's pretty disheartening to read. Would rather do something like what you say, but I'm not quite sure what you mean. [1]: Which is a bit ironic, thinking about it.

The use of the term “censorship” is itself a negative signal, as it preempts useful discussion by imposing a false dichotomy.

There’s no feasible zero-censorship scenario (see “yelling fire in a crowded theater”, etc.) so pretty much everyone is “pro-censorship” to some degree. But pretty much no one wants preapproval of every utterance either, so everyone is also “anti-censorship”.

If you see someone talking about “damping positive disinformation feedback loops” or something like that, rather than “censorship”, that’s one signal there’s a substantive discussion taking place.

(Zero censorship is kind of like absolute anarchy: an interesting thought experiment that may be useful to inform a practical debate.)

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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When you purposefully leak private data, you no longer get to hide behind the title "Security Researcher".

what private data was leaked? From what I can see its just public content that was archived.

I read that photos of drivers licenses and other "official" cards were leaked. I believe these were used for proving who you were on the app. I'm not sure if these were publicly shared, or shared with admins who then verified the user.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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interesting opinion from Glenn Greenwald: "Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start." https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293

Good ol' Glenn Greenwald, always stepping up to defend fascists

What? Could you please explain your point of view?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Wikileaks leaked John Podesta's emails, including such criminal activity as his recipe for risotto.

And that was widely criticized as improper behavior. Parler is not good, but stealing and publishing this information is also not traditionally ethical.

If the data was public, is it stealing?

(Not 100% sure if private data was released.)

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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> It is literally the same as Twitter. Pretty much. What I find troubling is that despite containing the same cesspool of vile content, Twitter never got booted from Google and Apple App stores, and AWS.

Please send me twitter links of people conspiring to commit violence so I can report them.

Twitter has a search feature.

Also this was the very reason Donald Trump's account was finally banned, despite YEARS of that rhetoric.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.

Account created 12 days ago... Will they make it a full 14 before they get shadow banned? A new user who doesn't understand what "hacker news" is really about, or somebody who knows exactly what it is and made an alt account to post stuff like this while protecting their main one? Ah the joys of modern censorship.
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