Parler is back up. Woohoo!

[The Catboy]

yeah
also parler's flaws, like deletion not actually being deletion and admins being able to view private shit... those need to stay
a site entirely composed of delusional far right fuckbrains with seemingly no limits to what they'll do for Trump, one that has resulted in a planned insurrection before at that, needs to be actively monitorable by the government
and tbh, the public as well
like if you're going to go on a platform like parler that basically only exists because your views are so dangerously toxic that you or your talking heads got banned from all the other ones...
those views being yours should be public knowledge
it's like one grand wall of shame
like "so you want us to not block your speech from view... ok then!"

Precisely! Letting them have their little safe space and being allowed to say all of their horrible ideas in a public setting means being prepared for them when they do something stupid and or violent again. It's better they don't consider going deeper because it means easier tracking and monitoring.
Edit: Plus maybe once people get tired of GBAtemp's staff "censoring" their posts, they might leave to Parler.

 

[Plasmaster09]

Precisely! Letting them have their little safe space and being allowed to say all of their horrible ideas in a public setting means being prepared for them when they do something stupid and or violent again. It's better they don't consider going deeper because it means easier tracking and monitoring.

If they want absolute publicity, they can have it.
If they want absolute privacy, they can have it.
If they want to go fuck themselves in a Luddic corner by actually practicing what they preach and staying off of social media (since clearly all of it is controlled by the malevolent Big Tech[TM] /s), they can do that.
"Choose your starter! You can only pick one!"

Plus maybe once people get tired of GBAtemp's staff "censoring" their posts, they might leave to Parler.

oh my god yes
ironically, I betcha this thread's OP would be the first to go
the guy practically has a fetish for necroposting his own rightfully MOD-DELETED posts/threads

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Precisely! Letting them have their little safe space and being allowed to say all of their horrible ideas in a public setting means being prepared for them when they do something stupid and or violent again. It's better they don't consider going deeper because it means easier tracking and monitoring.
Edit: Plus maybe once people get tired of GBAtemp's staff "censoring" their posts, they might leave to Parler.

That would be amazing

 

[The Catboy]

That would be amazing

Imagine the Temp where members don’t believe every removed post is a personal attack to them ;O;

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Imagine the Temp where members don’t believe every removed post is a personal attack to them ;O;

Is such a paradise even possible?

 

[The Catboy]

Is such a paradise even possible?

When they leave to Parler, all things will be possible! ;O;

 

[Doran754]

Lol acting like you're not well annoyed Parler is back online. You are, you're gutted.

 

[The Catboy]

Lol acting like you're not well annoyed Parler is back online. You are, you're gutted.

That's some weird level of projection you got going on there. Why should I be annoyed over the Right wanting a safe space? I think I've given some pretty clear reasons why I actually want Parler to be online.

 

[Doran754]

The whole thread is just liberals being sarcastic. Kick people off a platform you all disagree with, celebrate when every major tech corp shuts them down. None of you are happy about it really

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

The whole thread is just liberals being sarcastic. Kick people off a platform you all disagree with, celebrate when every major tech corp shuts them down. None of you are happy about it really

Ew I'm not a liberal

 

[Plasmaster09]

The whole thread is just liberals being sarcastic. Kick people off a platform you all disagree with, celebrate when every major tech corp shuts them down. None of you are happy about it really

No, we'd be happy either way.
Either alt-right assholes get pissed about not getting to vent their horrific bigotry in front of everyone, which provides a delicious dish of purified schadenfreude, or they remain in public monitorable view where everyone can see what moronic scumbags they are.
It's win/win for us, and whine/whine for you.

 

[The Catboy]

The whole thread is just liberals being sarcastic. Kick people off a platform you all disagree with, celebrate when every major tech corp shuts them down. None of you are happy about it really

Lol, I am not a Liberal, that being said, get over yourself. Just because you have deeply rooted insecurities, doesn't mean everyone else feels the same.
Most of us actually want Parler online because it actually means their moronic behavior can be watched by the public eye. Kicking them off their platform only forces them to go deeper and that's something we don't need happening. I would rather see their shitty beliefs be broadcast to the public than have no idea what's going on in their community.

 

[Plasmaster09]

Discord have banned plenty of people for "wrongthink" as well, and have done for some years now.

"Wrongthink" is a funny snarl word for way to say "bigotry with active intent to act on said bigotry in a way that directly harms others".

Lol, I am not a Liberal, that being said, get over yourself. Just because you have deeply rooted insecurities, doesn't mean everyone else feels the same.
Most of us actually want Parler online because it actually means their moronic behavior can be watched by the public eye. Kicking them off their platform only forces them to go deeper and that's something we don't need happening. I would rather see their shitty beliefs be broadcast to the public than have no idea what's going on in their community.

I am a Liberal (though now that I think about it, probably closer to a Progressive) and I just find it so hilarious when braindead trolls feel the need to use this one specific sub-party set of ideologies and positions as a snarl word for the entire party. I swear, they couldn't even keep bigoted subgroup profiling out of politics, and it just shows how built on bigotry and resentment their platform is right now.
And yeah, we love it when people broadcast their intense, palpable dickery to the public- it just makes said dickery infinitely more obvious and harder to irrationally defend!

 

[FAST6191]

"Wrongthink" is a funny snarl word for way to say "bigotry with active intent to act on said bigotry in a way that directly harms others".

Really? Because I thought it an amusing allusion to 1984, one of the great cultural touchstones when it comes to discussing censorship and people trying to control the thoughts of others. A rather amusing position to be in as a tool that aims to help people communicate too.

 

[Plasmaster09]

Really? Because I thought it an amusing allusion to 1984, one of the great cultural touchstones when it comes to discussing censorship and people trying to control the thoughts of others. A rather amusing position to be in as a tool that aims to help people communicate too.

I got the reference. (Tbh, if you're discussing politics in today's aggressively partisan world and HAVEN'T read 1984, you're losing out on not only an important tale of authoritarianism gone wrong but a powerful tool to use as a straw-man argument.)
However, it's basically become a snarl word used by people whose thoughts being 'controlled' progress beyond mere arbitrary opinions and potentially endanger others.

 

[FAST6191]

I got the reference.
However, it's basically become a snarl word used by people whose thoughts being 'controlled' progress beyond mere arbitrary opinions and potentially endanger others.

In that case consider it that as aspect of "taking it back". I don't like losing words that are quite useful.

 

[Plasmaster09]

In that case consider it that as aspect of "taking it back". I don't like losing words that are quite useful.

Fair point. (Honestly, Poe's Law is basically jammed up the ass of every possible political conversation now. I couldn't tell from the wording if you were for or against the whole "Wheaton's Law-breaking as a bannable offense" thing, and the last time I gave the benefit of the doubt turned out to be quite doubtworthy.)
Plus, it's also a handy identifier- anyone that acts like their own opinions are treated as wrongthink and that The Powers That Be or whatever tf is cracking down on them Orwell-style, but doesn't live in a place or situation that actually is that oppressive (ex: China and Russia, albeit in different ways), there's a good chance they're a wingnut that's just flailing about because they got banned for saying something horrible.

 

[Sicklyboy]

deletion not actually being deletion

That's not uncommon, for any kind of social media site...

admins being able to view private shit

...but you get what you pay for, I suppose.

Lol acting like you're not well annoyed Parler is back online. You are, you're gutted.

Damn dude, I haven't seen a reach like that since the presidential fitness test in grade school.

 

[Plasmaster09]

That's not uncommon, for any kind of social media site...



...but you get what you pay for, I suppose.



Damn dude, I haven't seen a reach like that since the presidential fitness test in grade school.

I forgot to mention that a third stupid thing, which is in part caused by false deletion, is that admins can view literally all posts, including deleted ones in ADDITION to the private-convo-access thing I mentioned earlier.
I assume you heard about the reason it was hackable already, right? The whole fail-open thing? Because with all of the other stupid shit Parler does, you can probably see why the last-days hack worked so well- admins have basically zero limitations.