Posted on 02/06/2021 7:18:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The chief executive of Parler said he was fired by the board of directors of the “free speech” social-media company — whose app was kicked off the internet for hosting violent content after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — after he advocated for stricter moderation policies.
Former Parler CEO John Matze said he was terminated Jan. 29 by the board, which he said is “controlled by Rebekah Mercer,” the GOP donor who is among Parler’s investors. The news was first reported by Fox Business.
Matze, who once briefly worked for Amazon’s AWS division as a software developer before joining Parler in early 2018, said in a New York Times interview that he had told Mercer that for Parler to get back online the company needed to consider banning white supremacists, domestic terrorists and followers of the QAnon pro-Trump conspiracy movement. “I got dead silence as response, and I took that dead silence as disagreement,” he told the Times.
In response to Matze’s claims, right-wing personality Dan Bongino, who also is an investor in Parler, posted a video on Facebook in which he said Matze had made “really bad decisions” that led to Parler’s deplatforming. “We could have been up in a week if we just would have bent the knee,” Bongino said, alluding to requirements from Apple, Google and Amazon that Parler remove hate speech and violent content from the app. “The vision of the company as a free-speech site and a stable product, immune and hardened to cancel culture, was ours,” Bongino said, adding that “John decided to make this public, not us.”
In the days after the deadly pro-Trump riot at the Capitol, Parler was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores, with the companies citing threats of violence and illegal activity on the app.
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He lies
Yellow journalism.
What a POS!
Good.
Besides threats of violence or porn nothing should be banned off of Parler if it wants to be a free speech platform. If I wanted to read a bunch of feel good blather I’d go to twitter or reddit.
Right call if true.
This is what Dan Bongino said he was proposing. It was a total cave-in to Amazon and Big Tech.
Good riddance
At that point the company was already effectively dead.
Porn is the equiv of violence how?
John needs to go to work for Twitter, he’d fit right in.
He couldn’t get them back online in a month. Did he even try? Doofus.
There is no such thing as "hate" speech. QAnon has first amendment rights too. We don't need no stinkin' censorship or prior restraint. Oh, and by "terrorists", he means Ashli Babbitt.
...but not porn.
Glad he was fired. The things that he was coerced into agreeing to censor are so loosely defined and open ended that Parler would have slowly morphed into another Twitter, as the left pushed for more and more. Also, it didn’t take a genius to know that a leftist outfit like Amazon would eventuallt turn on Parler as to hosting.
They are two things that shouldn’t be allowed on Parler. I can go use twitter if I wanted to see those things.
Define hate speech.
Love Q. Thegreatawakening.com. Good group of patriots. They call out the shills and doomers and FIB plants
patriots.win. Is old. Donald.win. Very similar. also good group of patriots
Honestly. Only drudge when he was good ( pre 2016) Ever got me off. FREEREPUBLIC THE WORLDS GRRATEST GAthering of American heroes !
Thank you Jim! Please support this great chat space !!
RE: Define hate speech.
Example: “We Should Be More Fearful of White Men – Who are Causing Most Deaths In This Country” - Ilhan Omar
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXkVzaeWz1U
“Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” - Sarah Jeong ( tweet from July 2014) , Member of NY Times Editorial Board.
MORE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD:
“Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” she said in December 2014.
and more:
“white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants”.
See here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534
Maybe Parler will allow this, Twitter certainly did.
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