Posted on 01/08/2021 6:59:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The CEO of Twitter alternative Parler, John Matze, has condemned the censorship of President Trump by social media companies, after Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram announced bans of the president’s accounts yesterday.
“If free speech truly is the enemy and we must restrict and censor the voices of people to keep our country safe, then our country is already lost,” Matze said. “If one man’s voice is a threat to our nation but his holding of the presidential office is not, than [sic] it is apparent the powers of the presidency are less powerful than a single voice.”
“Why should any of us settle to giving up our rights to free speech?” he asked.
Matze slammed Facebook and Twitter in particular, saying that they “believe the ends justify the means. They believe the American people are weak. They insult our founding fathers by suggesting [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg and [Twitter CEO] Dorsey know what is best for us.”
Mark Zuckerberg, who claimed on Thursday that Trump sought “to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” has been criticized for massively influencing the 2020 election.
Last year, Zuckerberg poured $400 million into state election processes through a nonprofit that contracted overwhelmingly with Democratic officials and violated federally-mandated state election plans, according to the Amistad Project, an election integrity group.
Facebook, as well as Twitter, also temporarily blocked discussion of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, which could have deflated Biden’s support among 17% of his voters, a recent poll showed.
“Parler is not an arbiter of truth,” Matze said. “We believe you are wise enough to decide for yourself and trust that given access to all information we can self govern.”
“The solution is clear. If you believe in free speech, and our founding principles of our republic, then we must liberate others by promoting free speech Parler,” he added.
Daily Parler users have increased by more than 800% after the November election, as Big Tech companies rush to de-platform Trump supporters like his former adviser Steve Bannon.
Liberal groups have repeatedly attacked Parler in recent weeks, some of them targeting the free speech platform after Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday.
LifeSiteNews’ Parler account currently has 20,000 followers. Readers may follow @LifeSiteNews.
“Our engagement is increasing, but we would love to see more, of course!” said Rebekah Roberts, LifeSite’s Director of Marketing. “I do believe that we’ll be using alternative social media platforms more and more — Parler, MeWe, Rumble — since I do anticipate us getting banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube in the very near future.
Twitter just banned Rush Limbaugh, dying of cancer, who never advocated violence in any form. F them.
Same here. Keep getting "error fetching notifications." They were showing up, but wouldn't open. Was getting "post cannot be found." Was able to get the new parleys up, but when you click on the comment icon, a little window opens up, but you can't type anything in it.
Worse than that
Apparently only one side has free speech
Decided by people no one ever voted for or explicitly realized were moral arbiters over all of us
Was just finally able to get the comment page to open properly, and sent a comment off okay.
Yes, it is lost. It’s been lost. As a nation we’ve turned our back on the legal slaughter of 70 million innocent human beings, while we worry about wealth and taxes and other things. God sees, and judges nations. Seems like we’re in the beginning of the process.
Biden does nothing?
Not surprising.
GOP does nothing....expectations were two or three would have
stepped forth by now.
Such a disappointment these feckless ‘leaders’ have become.
I find this hilarious. Where do they see this ending. By the reaction I saw from a few broken windows they better hope this war doesn’t get hot
Lin Wood is still on Parler.
Their User Interface is poorly written if you are going through a web browser. They need to hire a developer who knows basic web design.
Is there anyway to get the app without google play store?
Hacking my android for an app was NOT how I was supposed to spend Friday night
Parler said tonight there servers are getting hammered. PLUS they are getting threatened by Amazon, who hosts their servers. Seems Amazon is putting the screws to Parler.
How this DOES NOT equal ANTI-TRUST is beyond me. Amazon, Twitter and Facebook are now actively working to defund and deplatform any site they do not agree with.
All Republicans did was hold hearings. Will the multi-State anti-trust cases against Google, and Facebook be of any help?
Twitter needs to be taken down.
If you go to Parler.com there is a download option.
Thanks, thought I looked but it could be so over run now the right thing wouldn’t show up. Will check it out in a couple of days
Twitter is not a profitable company. Your nearest pizzeria or nail salon delivers more earnings per share to its equity owners than Twitter. Twitter only attracts investors because it is a “growth” company. If Twitter gets one half of the treatment Fox News rightly received after the election it will disappear. Jack Dorsey or whatever the hell his name is is a billionaire on paper only, just like Elizabeth Holmes was. The jig is up.
.... Note to All ...... Adapt ....
I have been here since 2000-
I deleted my: Twitter, facebook, and gmail accounts tonight. I also uninstalled all google apps.
-I’m disappointed with apple
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