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Google removes Parler from Google Play store, following Donald Trump getting banned from Twitter and joining the site
- Thread starter Schlorgan
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Until recently, I was seriously considering moving to Android. But Apple's policies on privacy and this are convincing me. I know it's not due to any good-will and I still have issues with some of their choices, but this is way more important than my issues.
Ahahaha I was wondering why I haven't been hearing anything from the orange terrorist
Wait.. is this finally it? This the permanent? Crossing fingers!
Twitter said that from now each time that Trump says something that incites violence is going to get a temporal ban, which feels like each time is going to get better
Yeah, banning the app won't prevent people from accessing the service through the browser. Theoretically Apple and Google could block the url on OS level, but they wouldn't do that.
Oh no poor them, monopolistic entities suppressing the speech of fringe minorities, what is this, the very thing they're trying to achieve?
It's just like sticking a lock on a door - you're not trying to 100% guarantee that people can't come in, you're trying to make it difficult and inconvenient. Most people aren't going to sideload a shady app to access Parler, and anything that slows down the spread can only be a good thing. Besides, where else are they going to advertise that app if they can't post on traditional social media?
EDIT: I see Twitter finally did their job. Fuck off, Trump.
I understand removing the apps from iOS and Android are a way to deplatform these idiots, but they make it sound like deleting the Facebook app stops you from using Chrome or just another browser to log in to the web version of the site and keep using it. What would Parler lose if they tell their userbase of morons to just log in to the site using a browser? A full deplatform would be their web hosts dropping their service/contract with them, right?
I'm fully uneducated on the subject, but felt like asking about this.
I'm fully uneducated on the subject, but felt like asking about this.
It's "ok" to have (certain conservative views, but joining Parler crosses that line into fringe nutso territory. It literally only exists as shadow Twitter for cretins that can't stay within Twitter's very lax ToS.
Chris Pratt, no, stop.
Chris Pratt, no, stop.
It'll slow them down enough, not many older people will figure that one out.
If you are on the Google Play store you can report the Parler app for abuse and hateful content.
If he were smart, he would've used the POTUS account since they weren't going to ban that.
I do wonder how this fares for the POTUS retweets of his personal account given the archival transition that's going to happen on the 20th.
The younger people will end up figuring it out, and if Parler posts instructions on the site on how to do it, everyone will have a guide.
But I agree with anything that will slow down the radicalization.
Please be gone by the time I go to bed tonight. Don't even give them time to fake cleaning up. They're not honestly changing their minds.
Unless I'm missing something it says he joined in July, and that's the only post he's ever made. I became aware of Parler about a month ago, was it known as a fringe shithole in July?
Hopefully they do this within the next few days, it's unreal it's allowed right now. I have no idea how the process of removing an app from the store works, but if possible they should immediately suspend it while reviewing whether it merits permanent removal. If they're worried about public perception it would not be hard at all to point out the many calls for violence on the platform.
Done
It was created specifically to be a fringe shithole.
I say this without meaning to reference a meme: Always has been. Wanna say it was made because of Twitter "stamping out their freedom of speech"
Twitter should give the POTUS handle to the Biden admin early. Not just because it's a smart thing to do to not have Trump tweet from it but also because it would further crush Trump's soul that he couldn't use it.
Yup, you're exactly right. That Dan B guy is a hardcore right winger.
Fair enough. I'm not going to defend Pratt, it's known that he has extremely conservative views. Just didn't seem fair to say his "timing is impeccable" when he joined months ago. Anyone who joins now is clearly doing so to protest Twitter's moderation of calls for violence, but like I said, I wasn't sure if it was widely known as being as extreme as it is now back in July.
Sounds like it was.
All them olds on there aren't gonna be able to figure that out on Android.