I don't trust Parler and this is why:
Type "Gab" into google's search engine and this is the definition you get:
Gab is an English-language social media website known for its far-right userbase. The site has been widely described as a safe haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right. "
That's a pretty harsh and opinionated definition. Notice how all the buzzwords like "far-right", "neo-Nazis" (I will never understand how the term "Nazi" got associated with right-leaners), "white supremacists" (you see this and you KNOW they making shit up) and "extremist" are all used. Vague terms used time and time again by left-leaners to cast their more right leaning political opponents in a negative light. Now type "Parler" into google's search engine. This is the definition you get:
Parler is a United States-based microblogging and social networking service launched in August 2018, promoted as an alternative to Twitter and particularly marketed to political conservatives in the United States."
There is a world of difference between the definition provided for these two sites, which supposedly provide the same service. Also, gab does not have an app on download because (according to them):
Gab is banned from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for refusing to censor speech for Google and Apple"
But Apple/ Google had no issues whatsoever giving Parler an app. And unlike gab, Parler requires your phone number verification. I don't even think twitter requires your phone number (though I could be wrong, hell if I know, never had a twitter).
A lot of conservative speakers I follow have made the transition from twitter and youtube to Parler, and good for them for taking their audience elsewhere. Screw these biased ban-happy monopolistic big tech corporations. But in the face of the above bias, I hesitate to trust anything promoted or approved by Google and Apple where it relates to politics or social media. What I'm saying is...
...I smell a rat.
I don't trust Parler and this is why:
Type "Gab" into google's search engine and this is the definition you get:
Gab is an English-language social media website known for its far-right userbase. The site has been widely described as a safe haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right. "
That's a pretty harsh and opinionated definition. Notice how all the buzzwords like "far-right", "neo-Nazis" (I will never understand how the term "Nazi" got associated with right-leaners), "white supremacists" (you see this and you KNOW they making shit up) and "extremist" are all used. Vague terms used time and time again by left-leaners to cast their more right leaning political opponents in a negative light. Now type "Parler" into google's search engine. This is the definition you get:
Parler is a United States-based microblogging and social networking service launched in August 2018, promoted as an alternative to Twitter and particularly marketed to political conservatives in the United States."
There is a world of difference between the definition provided for these two sites, which supposedly provide the same service. Also, gab does not have an app on download because:
Gab is banned from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for refusing to censor speech for Google and Apple"
But Apple/ Google had no issues whatsoever giving Parler an app. And unlike gab, Parler requires your phone number verification. I don't even think twitter requires your phone number (though I could be wrong, hell if I know, never had a twitter).
A lot of conservative speakers I follow have made the transition from twitter and youtube to Parler, and good for them for taking their audience elsewhere. Screw these biased ban-happy monopolistic big tech corporations. But in the face of the above bias, I hesitate to trust anything promoted or approved by Google and Apple where it relates to politics or social media. What I'm saying is...
...I smell a rat.