Wait, direct threats of violence and child porn are legal speech now?
Because that's what you'll find on Parler.
Edit: for the sake of accuracy, Parler is unquestionably rife with threats of violence that they refuse to remove. Go visit /R/parlerwatch and despair.
They do, however, remove CP from the site if it's reported by users, but as of 2020-12-02 they admit they lack any automated systems for detecting and removing it at scale.
Well, in case it wasn't clear, I'll try more words and hope this helps:
Parler has knowingly allowed content to exist on their site that violates both the Google ToS and the law.
This content isn't "naughty". It is very much illegal, and includes direct threats and incitement to violence among many other things. This includes, for example, calls to murder politicians, the police, etc.
Parler has further affirmatively stated they will not remove that material despite having the ability to do so. In this way Parler distinguishes itself from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and so forth.
That is, of course, their choice. However, a failure to moderate this kind of material violates Google's ToS.
It is therefore also Google's and Apple's choice to enforce their ToS and remove the Parler app from their store.
In no way does this represent censorship (neither Google nor Apple are in any way obligated to distribute third party software), nor does the offending content represent legal speech.
> Because that's what you'll find on Parler.
No article I've read substantiates the presence of child pornography.
Source?
> Wernick elaborated after this story published, confirming that Parler has no system for detecting child pornography before it is viewed and potentially reported by users.
However I absolutely admit your point: rather than affirmative statement of the presence of CP on the site, the issue is they've not built systems for finding and removing it.
They have a manual human moderation pool for removing illegal content. But they are very slow, it took over 12 hours for them to remove a spambot.
Article about the porn stuff: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/7/parler-rebut...
I keep wading into these threads defending Parler because they are nothing like 4chan, 8kun, or Gab. They do have moderation, they do remove illegal content, they just suck at it.
What's your point? By equivalence, you should be calling for hackernews to be shut down, right? By equivalence, you shouldn't be posting here.
If your husband's friend really did see illegal material just scrolling the discover page, there will be mainstream media confirmation of an arrest soon.