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I wonder how much damage that disastrous interview with Kara Swisher did (for the site and for Matze). I have no sense of this.

(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/sway-kara-swisher...)

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Honestly, probably not much. Since day one they've been vocal about not policing any of the speech there. That's the selling point. I can't fathom anyone on the board not knowing that. It's more likely they felt, "you job is to keep the company going, and if that means policing speech, do it," and he failed.

> and if that means policing speech, do it

After the data leak there should be zero trust in their name no matter what the moderation story is/was.

> vocal about not policing any of the speech there.

It's also been a lie from day one. Parler policed things that didn't fit into their definition of free speech. Just like Twitter et al.

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