"the media". You're not being honest, you either havent used the platform or are deliberately lying here. Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.
So all social media then
I seem to remember just a few years back, social media platforms, and the darling media being quite proud of organising violent mobs - or as they preferred to call it, "freedom" - in a movement known as the "Arab Spring"[0]. It was touted as one of the "virtues" of such platforms.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...
I feel the same way about Facebook [1]. This is not whataboutism. I truly believe Facebook should also be shutdown for its role in Genocide.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Its enough to raise a mob.
Facebook are also central to the investigation: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/how-facebook-is-complicit-in...
(However, maybe Facebook indeed made things worse, once the Facebook-connected military got involved.)
The UN also said that Facebook played a "determining role" (see the Diplomat link).
Charging phones from car batteries, damn !
Twitter is used for this kind of thing too. So is whatsapp, signal, telegram etc.
Do we ban all Trump marches/meetups just in case those are used as platforms to organize violence? Why don't we just ban meeting up in public for everyone who voted trump because people can use their mouths to arrange violent mobs too.
There's no relationship in what you're saying. Parler is responsible for content on it's platform. It doesn't matter if it's supposedly "neutral" or not.
Parler is a social media app, not a messaging app like signal. People don't go to signal for their latest fake news, they would go to parler and be swayed by a mob of people that continually build off of each other's aggressive behavior. It was a closed loop of people that didn't like being told they're wrong.
There's nothing neutral about parler either, their user base is no mistake. It's entirely intentional, you can't hide behind "freedom of speech" when you're marketing your platform for this behavior.