Originally Posted by
time4fun
Parler is out there spreading conspiracy theories that it's being targeted because it hosts conservative content. All of the Parler users are now convinced this is an attack on them.
Actually what happened is that they agreed to make good faith attempts to consistently and effectively moderate content promoting violence or terrorism when they signed up with AWS/Google/Apple. The terms apply to all apps/service that feature user generated content, but Parler refused to do it themselves. All three of those companies warned Parler that it was in violation of the ToS and told them they needed to create a moderation operation.
Fast forward to last Wed, and it turns out people were planning some of the violence that happened at the Capitol on Parler (which Parler presumably knew)
Then their idiot CEO decided to do an interview last week where he said that the fact that people were planning terrorism on his app wasn't his problem.
He got one last warning from Apple to create a moderation plan to put itself in compliance with the ToS, and they again refused.
So everyone dropped them.
And now they're telling everyone it's because they host conservative content. And it's infuriating.
They didn't get screwed by Big Tech. They got screwed by Parler's idiot CEO.
/rant