Company claims it warned FBI about violent posts <em>before</em> everything hit the fan.
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Parler: We warned the FBI more than 50 times before the Capitol riot
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Oh look the mass delusion continues unabated.
I wonder how long it will take for the Qcumbers these people call brains to figure out that the magical storm or whatever they're calling it these days will never materialize and they're all a bunch of rubes.
I wonder how long it will take for the Qcumbers these people call brains to figure out that the magical storm or whatever they're calling it these days will never materialize and they're all a bunch of rubes.
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So they knew it was bad enough to report to the FBI, but still didn't moderate it?
Just...wow...
EDIT: Just to demonstrate how wonky this is. As a content provider, I wouldn't be liable if somebody posts illegal content on my service and I don't know about it (let's say child pornography for an extreme example), but if I reported them to the police and STILL did nothing about that type of content, I would be a party to it at some point I imagine.
Just...wow...
EDIT: Just to demonstrate how wonky this is. As a content provider, I wouldn't be liable if somebody posts illegal content on my service and I don't know about it (let's say child pornography for an extreme example), but if I reported them to the police and STILL did nothing about that type of content, I would be a party to it at some point I imagine.
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Oh, FFS! Did not realize Parler was a Mercer project. That makes a lot more sense now.
ETA: The Mercers funded Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and introduced Bannon to Trump. Robert Mercer also apparently thinks racist white people don't exist and that the Civil Rights Act was an economic mistake for black people (yes, really). I bet they hang out with Peter Thiel, too. HUMAN GARBAGE.
ETA: The Mercers funded Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and introduced Bannon to Trump. Robert Mercer also apparently thinks racist white people don't exist and that the Civil Rights Act was an economic mistake for black people (yes, really). I bet they hang out with Peter Thiel, too. HUMAN GARBAGE.
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"We want the post quality and moderation of /pol/ but with the legitimacy that allows us to actually make money!" -Some Shmuck on the Board of Directors, probably
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enlightened.doggo
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It's not clear if there's any overlap between unmoderated/content in the moderation queue and content reported to the FBI.
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Okay, so let's see the e-mails and/or transcripts from the phone calls. Not that it matters, because they still didn't moderate it and let it happen.
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1) I'm not sure establishing formal contact with the FBI is "extraordinary initiative" for a business like Parler. I'd bet $20 that Twitter and Facebook also have such lines of communication.
2) I'm sure the Bureau can produce records of such communication, then? You know...
...like Amazon did in regards to their pleas with Parler?
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"Parler is funded by the former owners of Cambridge Analytica. They always wanted to create a new social network to collect data and disseminate propaganda. And now they have."
- Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica data expert
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I'm really curious if Matze was personally the one who notified the FBI. It says a lot about intent that they had to fire the guy for what he was doing... but turn around and <palms up> say: "we tried everything we could to stop it!"
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enlightened.doggo
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None of this is surprising unfortunately. It's not exactly unheard of for American law enforcement to completely ignore credible threats of terrorism. e.g., Orlando nightclub shooting, Nashville Christmas bombing. Plus we already know that officials at multiple levels knew about the threat.
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Nah, they probably have some other similarly reprehensible perspective on The Gays that prevents such fraternizing.
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Charging one person of a systemic problem doesn't end at that person. the entire GOP needs to be removed since every single one of them continued the shit show when they reconvened after the attack.
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Parler lights a match and holds it next to a can of gasoline while talking on the phone.
"Hello, Fire Department? I'd like to report an arson fire in progress."
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Yep.
A better analogy would be to allow someone with a track record of arson next to an open pit of gasoline while that person was carrying a lighter, and after you let them in, calling to report said fire.
Enablers are enablers, regardless of ex post facto "hey, we warned someone" claims.
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So free speech means that you're allowed to say whatever you want, but Parler isn't allowed to tell other people about what you said?
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Like pretty much anything that have come out of that cesspool of Parlor/QAnon/Twice-Impeached-Private-Citizen, I'll believe it when you show me the proof.
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Gonna need to see proof of this, Parler! And if it's delivered via a laptop by Rudy Giuliani, I swear to pogo stick Jesus...
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