Posted on 04/20/2021 9:26:41 AM PDT by HKMk23
Today Apple announced that they would be allowing Establishment Oligarch-owned Parler back on the Apple App Store. This comes after Parler ousted their pro-free speech CEO and Founder John Matze, who claims that his 40% stake in the company was stolen from him. After removing Matze Parler implemented a “troll filter” to censor “trolling content,” whatever that means.
Bloomberg reported that Parler is working with third-party artificial intelligence software company Hive to automatically censor and remove content that Apple doesn’t like. Hive works with other Big Tech companies like Reddit to leverage artificial intelligence to censor content at scale.
Shortly after this news, conservative firebrand Dan Bongino announced on his show that he is “no longer involved in the day-to-day” of Parler, which left the company at the whims of Billionaire Oligarch Rebekah Mercer.
The same Mercer family behind the atrocious privacy nightmare of Cambridge Analytica. The same people who threw Milo under the bus. The same people who threw Steve Bannon under the bus. The same people who threw Parler Founder and Former CEO John Matze under the bus. The same people who threw President Trump under the bus.
So in essence Parler is now a smaller version of Twitter for Fox News pundits to “echo” each other into oblivion and for the Mercer family to gather data on you.
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woo hoo.
I was wondering how they made it back into the itunes store.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
In theory the mother of all blogging apps could be created.
Once it is spread around, all that would need to be changed is a name.
I see two addresses in the source code for this posting page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/l/common.js
http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js
What will Parler filter? The article doesn't document anything of substance to answer that question.
Will Parler become like Twitter?
TBD.
I had a parler account. Not signing back up for this. Prefer Gab.
Is Frank worth it? I am not sure but it’s a rival to Parler along with Gab.
Isn’t “billionaire oligarch Rebekah Mercer” a Trump supporter?
The Frank site looks shoddy. Other day could not add number to join. Last night was a video feed only. Now site looks like the cache is broken. Nowhere to join. Just says I entered but the font is a mess.
Does Frank have any apps?
I do not wish to parlay.
Newsweek claims site Frank was hacked and failed to start. Lindell is a good guy but he is having issues.
Too late, it already is. I was censored twice a little over two months ago for pretty innocuous stuff. Dumped Parler. No longer go back there. I moved my stuff to Gab. Much better.
No one sees your posts on Parler. I wouldn’t trust Apple.
Two months ago would be before they became Apple approved.
Please explain what you were censored for? Thanks.
Very disappointing news.
Parlor kowtowed a long time ago.......
once for saying there are only two genders, and the second time for using the word "trannies" and saying "trannies are freaks."
Dan Bongino had this to say after Perler was shut down:
“After Apple, Amazon and Google wiped us out we could have been up in a week if we just would have bent the knee, and followed all the ridiculous Apple edicts to become a heavy moderation site... that’s not what we are going to do.”
Well, now Perler is coming back, working with a big tech artificial intelligence company that already uses AI to implement mass filtering of content on other big sites, like reddit, Matze is out, and Bongino has walked away.
I don’t know how else to read those tea leaves than to conclude that Perler will go forward as a neutered shadow of it’s founders’ Free Speech ideals.
Rebekah Mercer is a populist supporter; she backed Cruz, then turned to Trump after Cruz dropped his campaign. So, not glowingly endorsing Trump, but very intent on advancing a populist Constitutionalism that both major parties exhibit unwillingness to embrace.
As with many on this site, the Romney election debacle was a turning point for Mercer, and her broader family. The Mercers “became fed up with the Republican establishment after President Barack Obama’s reelection. After Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s loss, Rebekah Mercer chewed out a room full of party donors at a meeting at New York’s University Club for bungling the election,” wrote the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/05/rebekah-mercer-the-billionaire-backer-of-bannon-and-trump-chooses-sides/
If you dare pick through the reeking leftism, the Post article does contain traces of actual evidence that Mercer may be a stronger conservative mind than Matze. Whereas he forwarded the idea of compliance to just get back online, to be followed up with, I suppose, long negotiations about was was or wasn’t to be allowed to be published, it appears Mercer has now done just that, but with an intervening recess during which to actually architect some strategy to the move. This move to “take half a loaf” as a near-term tactic has obviously rejected Bongino’s “never surrender” stance, and highlights the clash between idealism and pragmatism. The GOP has long been pilloried from the right for failing to apprehend crucial moments when taking a stand for ideals is essential, and for unstrategically capitulating to supposed practicality, but Bongino may be erring, here, at clinging to the ideal when a dose of pragmatism might be the last-hope breath of air the near-corpse needs to survive; in any form, ideal or not.
I don’t take the changes at Parler with any great sense of hope; I think Mercer has a very long row to hoe if she intends Parler be hospitable for believers in Free Speech and rights of conscience. Billionaire or not, the unholy trinity of Amazon, Apple, and Google will be formidable at the negotiating table — if, indeed, they condescend to even show up. I entertain grave doubts whether sane terms for “Community Standards” can be reached, and even more grave doubts that The Triumvirate would actually admit such terms into actual practice even if they could be reached.
Only time, as always, will tell.
Watch this space.
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