Twitter alternative Parler soars as conservatives flock to new social network

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. . . "noting the irony of those who “have told unhappy users to just ‘build their own platform’” reacting with such vitriol to someone who “finally did.”"

Other alternatives = Gab, MeWe, Moptu, and/or Patriot Network according to a commenter.

Twitter alternative Parler soars as conservatives flock to new social network​

On July 27, CNBC reported that Parler had surpassed both Twitter and Reddit to become the top-rated news-related iPhone app, adding half a million users in the span of just one week.

By Calvin Freiburger Fri Jul 10, 2020

July 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — As relations between Twitter and its conservative users continue to deteriorate, a new conservative-friendly alternative is gaining steam with its stated devotion to true freedom of speech.

Founded by John Matze and Jared Thomson, Parler bills itself as a “non-biased free speech driven entity that “accepts your right to express your thoughts, opinions and ideals online.” Whereas Twitter and Facebook have steadily adopted and expanded roles as adjudicators of “productive” versus “hateful” or “misleading” speech, Parler says it “aims to empower users to control their social experience. Users can be responsible to engage content as they see fit.”

The platform was launched in 2018 but didn’t hit it big until this summer. In the wake of Twitter taking the unprecedented step last month of flagging tweets by President Donald Trump . . .

. . On July 27, CNBC reported that Parler had surpassed both Twitter and Reddit to become the top-rated news-related iPhone app, adding half a million users in the span of just one week.

“We’re a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship,” Matze told CNBC. “If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler.”

That’s not to say Parler has no rules of its own. The website’s Community Guidelines forbid . . . .

. . . Liberal websites soon began spreading claims of being banned from Parler, albeit without investigating why. Others began highlighting alarming provisions in the site’s Terms of Service, namely a passage claiming the right to charge users for any legal fees associated with claims “arising from or relating to your access to or use of the Service.”

Conservative Partnership Institute senior adviser Rachel Bovard addressed Parler’s naysayers at length in a piece at American Greatness , noting the irony of those who “have told unhappy users to just ‘build their own platform’” reacting with such vitriol to someone who “finally did.” . . .
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And some thought it couldn’t be done. That with the presence of giants, no one else could compete. This is with only about 30 employees. Someone might take them up on that 20,000 usd bounty.
 
dscath said:
Great idea…now they can all talk to themselves!
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This is the entire reason i always thought it was a dumb idea to start your own social network. The reason for being on twitter/facebook and the like is to spread your ideas and engage in the larger “culture wars” then taking your messaging to a place where those who you aim to influence are not going to be seems like a massive waste of time and resources.
 
Well, I don’t have a twitter handle, but still stay abreast of what goes on there and see tweets all the time. Parler will likely be no different. If no one was seeing the messages on Twitter because they were being masked or censored, then they lose nothing anyway.

We have heard for years that people who complain about private companies discriminating or censoring selectively should simply start their own company (or find another one). Let’s see if this move gets support, or the predictable derision now that it is beginning.
dscath said:
Great idea…now they can all talk to themselves!
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I see the latter.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
Well, I don’t have a twitter handle, but still stay abreast of what goes on there and see tweets all the time. Parler will likely be no different.
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You and I are not really the target audience I was thinking of. If Conservatives abandon twitter for parlor then we can not counter liberals effectively. It is much more effective for say Ted Cruz to tweet back to AOC for something dumb she said on twitter where people who support her have a chance of seeing the response, than it is for Cruz to use parlor as a response tool where those who support AOC will likely just ignore if they are even aware of it. Sure, parlor will be great for getting a “harumph” from conservatives but what does that do to win the “culture wars”?
 
True, and we shall see. It is will be more like their individual facebook pages.
 
awesome. now hopefully twitter will finally be cleaned up of the hate
 
It’s good to see competition challenging monopolies.
I hope for the same with Facebook, Google and Amazon eventually. I support Catholic-friendly companies as much as I can.
People sometimes feel helpless against the Twitters of the world - but there’s a lot that can be done.
 
When I searched “Catholic” on Parler, live gay porn and a blasphemous image showed up
 
Perhaps. They can then decide if they prefer that or the dark underbelly of biased, anti-conservative censorship. Neither seems great, but worth a shot.
 
It forces me to get all my content from Catholics I follow, which is unfortunate.
 
teamjesusnumber31 said:
When I searched “Catholic” on Parler, live gay porn and a blasphemous image showed up
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That’s comes with less censorship. If people are allowed to say anything, they will. There is also a statement from the person that started parler asking people to not post photos of human feces in response to things they dont like. I can only imagine people had been doing that for there to be a statement.

The social media networks that offer no censorship tend to accumulate the most toxic of content. The trend has been that if those networks want to start making income from ads they start to clean things up to make it more brand friendly.

Gab offers little censorship. Because of the people that take haven there (and the content of their messages) several financial institutes will have nothing to do with them. Gab has been kicked off of their host and domain registrar. For people that use premium services it is necessary to pay with check since card processors won’t interact with them. “Censorship Free” is an expensive position.
 
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Bill_B_NY said:
It’s good to see competition challenging monopolies.
I hope for the same with Facebook, Google and Amazon eventually.
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Amazon has dipped their two into a lot of markets. Depending on which market you are referring to, they have lots of competition.
 
I wonder why the misspelled version of “Parlor”? Why was it not called “covfefe”? 😉
 
ThinkingSapien said:
That’s comes with less censorship.
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It might also come with the possibility that a considerable portion of those calling themselves Conservatives are self-proclaimed evangelical Christians who have as much disdain for Catholicism as they do liberals, progressives, democrats, minorities, et.al.
 
Fr Heilman and a bunch of his troops are going there. Everybody was upset last week becaues Father got put in Facebook jail for a day after posting some video about a doctor’s “cure” for COVID-19. I have no idea what the video was, I didn’t see it myself, or if it contained other stuff like claiming COVID is a hoax. I am not going to join Parler. If I wanted an uncensored forum, I’d just join 4Chan.
 
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