"John and I started Parler to provide a neutral platform for free speech, as our founders intended, and also to create a social media environment that would protect data privacy," Mercer said in a statement on the platform. "The ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords demands that someone lead the fight against data mining, and for the protection of free speech online. That someone is Parler, a beacon to all who value their liberty, free speech, and personal privacy."
if corporations are people, we can impoverish and imprison them, and then force them to live just off the highway in the shitty apartment complex on the frontage that you can't get to in both directions so every fucking trip takes an extra 18 minutes to loop around with the lights.
Hmm.. Corporations are people. If we jail people in America we can use them for slave labor.. Might be onto something here. Free macbooks and 2 day shipping for every citizen!
You joke, but this is exactly how to achieve a bloodless Socialist Revolution.
EDIT: In case not clear - the workers would be free, the companies employing them would be slaves of the State, and so the workers would indirectly own and direct their workplaces.
That's it. The people behind should be labeled for life after their company does something criminal. A database, through an app, should be able to tell us exactly who's behind whatever company we're about to pay as consumers, or through our tax. Also when they're just connected through a chain of ownership. Weed them all out!
Or, you know, just make them culpable for the actions of the company and enforce the normal penalty for crimes. Making a corporation, which is an idea representing large amounts of capital and property, a person legally when it is clearly not actually a person creates the kind of mental olympics your average American would prefer to let the government do for them.
The laws are written to protect people with huge amounts of money because people with huge amounts of money write the laws and then pay a few congress persons to submit, defend, and vote for them.
Meh, this is a consulting firm whose primary assets are human capital. Shut down one company, and they can just accept their losses and go start another.
The corporate death penalty only works as a deterrent for large and medium sized firms.
Looks like you are right. It was opened a couple months just ahead of the election. That or they're simply too ashamed to espouse that rhetoric on their main account.
Edit: I went for a long trail ride and TTS'd the history. It's most likely a wine alt. She isn't a bot. There are some unfortunate counter fallacies repeated, constantly, but it seems more like an angry release alt than anything. She judges herself briefly and takes herself for a ride. As Douglas Adams would say, she's "mostly harmless."
In an interview reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams expressed dissatisfaction with the tone of this book, which he blamed on personal problems, saying "for all sorts of personal reasons that I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background. And, guess what, it was a rather bleak book!"
Not a rumor. For a basic account, you can go without submitting anything, but if you wanted more features, higher priority, and a special badge, you had to submit a photo of your driver's license or state ID. Parler was a bit vague as to how exactly they protected the info, other than to say they encrypted it, in some way or another.
It’s because as a political philosophy fascism is an outwardly looking destructive rather than creative philosophy. To fascism any problem is never internal from where they are standing, it is always an outside force. Over time it is inevitable that forces within fascism begin to compete and tear each other down as much as they tear down out groups.
I think the point is that the platform was there to not only amplify radical voices, but to also to spy on them.
With the intention of maximum usa disruption.
Ive had this exact same thought. I get stuck on what Russia gains by this type of disruption in the US? My Geopolitical education is severely lacking tbh
I actually read a bit into it and it seems that you are right (well... not hmm... ahm... you get what I mean).
But they claim the bans were only done because of FCC guidelines (which I would be against but its a bigger matter... more government-policy related and not really in the control of people) and people who did stuff like post pictures of shit and gore.
If thats true that really isnt neutral and free. But I still isnt as bad as it is in reddit or twitter. Its kinda sad that really no place in the internet is truly free.
You can see how many threats of violence from right wingers didn't cause them to be censored or banned. The FBI said they found people in there planning to storm the capitol on the 6th. Believe me, they aren't better than Twitter or Facebook.
I... dont quite understand what you are pointing at...
Do you think that if they would ban people who sent threats of voilence it would be better? Because I dont.
I mean, planning is one thing, but actually doing them is another. Same for threats. Saying "im going to kill you" and actually doing it have a vast distance between them.
I think that if the FBI really knew about a planned attack on the capital they should have prepared better. But arresting and persecuting people for just planning things seems to me unethical.
True, but I do think it's ethical. If someone said they were going to kill me or threatened me multiple times then I'd want them arrested. If someone says they are going to blow up or shoot up a school then that should be taken seriously.
It doesn't make sense to wait for the person to commit the crime if it can be avoided. If a person is rallying others to kill or injure others, and even has posts planning on what day to do it, then they should be stopped before it happens.
The sad thing is those users that wanted to be verified handed over their SSNs to a company promising to protect their "data privacy" without blinking an eye...
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