Remember “If you don’t like Twitter’s rules, you are perfectly free to make your own platform”?
I suppose we are perfectly free to make our own pocket computers now, right?
I suppose we are perfectly free to make our own pocket computers now, right?
To be fair, there are legitimate efforts underway to do just that: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/.
More broadly, almost any unmoderated platform will, over time, degenerate. In real life, people tend to self-segregate by individual and community, and laws do delineate limits on speech (for example: the classic, "You can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater)"): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/
>Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being “deplatformed” for your views. Engage with real people, not bots. Parler is people and privacy-focused, and gives you the tools you need to curate your Parler experience.
Parler frontpage.
They have no intention of creating a real alternative to Twitter.
Lets be honest here, It's not like you can't have a conversation on Twitter either if your views are alternative. It's their hateful, harmful and offensive comments that will get them "deplatformed".
And no, harmful content does not get you deplatformed if it harms the right people: https://twitter.com/chineseembinus/status/134724760209453465...