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Google removes Parler from App store---Apple may as well.
CNBC ^ | 1/9/2021 | CNBC

Posted on 01/09/2021 5:44:09 AM PST by mikelets456

Google has removed Parler, a social media app popular with Trump supporters, from the Google Play Store, making it much harder for Android users to download and access the app.

Google said in a statement that its requires social media apps to have content moderation policies that remove posts that incite violence, and that posts on Parler were encouraging further violence after the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this week.

The removal of the app comes as the violence at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on Wednesday that left five dead has renewed calls for social media and technology companies to more closely moderate their platforms, especially when it comes to calls to incite violence.

Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump’s personal account on Friday because it felt that Trump’s most recent tweets were inciting violence, while Facebook prevented Trump from posting through the inauguration later this month.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: apple; bidenvoters; google; parler
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To: mikelets456

But this is a free economy still, and the money will flow to alternate methods.

Obviously they are engaging in monopolistic practices.

We need to create freedom phones and a freedom internet. And we need to starve them economically.


21 posted on 01/09/2021 6:35:32 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: max americana

We all know how to sideload, we all know there’s ways around it-—but we need to think outside the box.
Apple/Google block the app-—then sideload
Verizon/Comcast/ATT block the site- IPvanish
IPvanish is blocked-—then what?

Even if you get the app and do everything if this other big tech fascists join in, what’s the next step for us? That’s all I’m asking-—we need to be ahead on this.

BTW, sorry for my previous reply, I’m simply getting pissed at all this BS. I do apologize...


22 posted on 01/09/2021 6:35:53 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: mikelets456

Blah.


23 posted on 01/09/2021 6:38:03 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: mikelets456

The left wing Nazis don’t want anyone to have free speech. They want absolute control of everything.


24 posted on 01/09/2021 6:40:31 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: mikelets456

You can still get to Parler on the internet...at least for now.


25 posted on 01/09/2021 6:46:37 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Lysandru

Oh come on! Surely you remember the million+ BLM activists banned last summer! Surely when Commie-la was threatening violent protests for years to come, she was banned - wasn’t she?


26 posted on 01/09/2021 6:50:03 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: mikelets456

LOL

Emerald Robinson Latin cross
@EmeraldRobinson
Twitter has disabled the hashtag #1984.


27 posted on 01/09/2021 6:53:33 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Enlightened1

Which ‘Trump’ on Parler is the President?
Thank you.


28 posted on 01/09/2021 6:56:11 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: antidemoncrat

I understand Parler is hosted on AWS. It’s a matter of time for them, they’ll be gone or censored, at least if they plan on remaining there.


29 posted on 01/09/2021 6:57:07 AM PST by teevolt
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To: mikelets456

Do you think Google and Apple get it? Do they realize how much they are acting like the likes of Pravda and the Stasi? Do you think they care? Maybe that’s their intent.


30 posted on 01/09/2021 6:58:15 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: mikelets456

nah its all good. Im a hothead too lol. I would rather channel my hatred for liberals and Dummycraps.


31 posted on 01/09/2021 7:01:11 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: bramps
Which ‘Trump’ on Parler is the President?

If/when you figure that out please let me know too.

32 posted on 01/09/2021 7:07:46 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: mikelets456
I would assume you can go the Parler website and download the app? Regardless, the 1st amendment is just a rumor to the Marxists, and we now have proof of that.
33 posted on 01/09/2021 7:25:32 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Q has been proven to be a larp.)
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To: mikelets456

If all 90-million people that voted for Donald Trump abandon Twitter, whether you have another option or not, the communist CEO, Jack Dorsey, will be deposed by his board. No one will have to deny themselves for very long. I never joined Twitter but just joined Parler by going to their website.

Visualize all the “wounded warriors” that your mind can accommodate—with their missing limbs, burned bodies, and screwed up minds. While we are at it, lets memorialize all those that paid the ultimate price. Let us go all the way back to Bunker Hill. Is the current political climate what motivated these warriors to take up arms and risk their all?

Now, ask yourself, is it too much of a sacrifice to simply disconnect from Twitter—forever if that is what it takes?

If we MAGAs sever the connection watch how quickly Dorsey changes his behavior or gets the axe. If you own stock in Twitter, sell it because if we do what we know we need to do, the stock isn’t going to be worth much anyway. You may want to beat the rush to the bottom.


34 posted on 01/09/2021 7:34:59 AM PST by Saltmeat (69)
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To: mikelets456

Guess the disinformation campaign about Parler being evil didn’t nwork. Including several Freeper plants who yelled that.


35 posted on 01/09/2021 7:39:10 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Yes! You can “side load” Parler with the Gplay store. Web search it, duckduckgo.


36 posted on 01/09/2021 7:40:11 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Which ‘Trump’ on Parler is the President?
If/when you figure that out please let me know too.

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I am a big time amateur on this stuff. Didn’t belong to twitter. But...

first I signed up on Parler’s site.
Then I came back to FR and went to this thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923274/posts.

I clicked on Parler from the thread title which brought me to Trumps account because that was the thread subject.

And because (I presume) I had signed up, there was a ‘follow’ option to click on Trumps account.


37 posted on 01/09/2021 7:40:36 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: bramps

I’m also a relative noob at social media. But this worked, thank you!


38 posted on 01/09/2021 8:47:04 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: mikelets456

Content Moderation Policies = NO FREE SPEECH ALLOWED

Communism is spreading like a wiled fire


39 posted on 01/09/2021 9:25:44 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: teevolt

Pres. Trump talked about starting his own platform...maybe he should team with them.


40 posted on 01/09/2021 9:59:03 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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