It required phone number to sign up, requires account to see anything on that site. It's user agreement requires users to follow local laws (what about dissidents in China and Hong Kong? ). Even requires user to agree to pay their legal fees if the users posts leads (even indirectly? ) to lawsuit. Many more terms sound weird to me. Why so many influences and politicians on the right push hard for it? Why it's not banned and deplatformed like Gab (app store, hosting service, payment services) ? What do you guys think?
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No interest here either. Not that I'm a potential signer-upper -- I don't do social media accounts, period. But I can still read everything on Twitter, search for users, have years-old tweets show up as results for a narrowly tailored google search.
All I can see on Parler is the occasional original post (not the thread, not reposts by another user) made visible by a sharing link. If you want to see anything more -- the replies thread, the user's profile -- you're shit out of luck unless you want to create an account and give them a phone number of e-mail address. Nope, nope, nope.
If they don't open up all their content very, very fast, they're going to go down hard. They may end up having spent a bundle of money and faded away, with the only result being Twitter was forced to behave better, which was likely to happen anyway.