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Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices

Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/16303844790/just-like-every-other-platform-parler-will-take-down-content-face-impossible-content-moderation-choices.shtml

Like Gab before it, the hot new Twitter-wannabe service for assholes and trolls kicked off of Twitter is Parler. The President and a bunch of his supporters have hyped it up, and the latest is that Senator Ted Cruz (and Rep. Devin Nunes) have recently joined it, and like others before them they have hyped up the misleading claim that Parler supports free speech unlike Twitter. Cruz -- who has been spewing blatantly false information about "anti-conservative bias" on various internet platforms -- even announced his move to Parler... on Twitter, which does not seem to be moderating him at all. Cruz's overwrought speech is full of nonsense that has come to typify his pathetic attempt to win fans among Trump's base.

But, I did want to take a closer look at the claims that Parler supports free speech, because it does so in basically the same way every other platform -- including the way Twitter, Youtube and Facebook do: by saying that they can remove your content for any reason they want. Their user agreement includes this:

Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices

Jun 26, 2020, 5:32pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/16303844790/just-like-every-other-platform-parler-will-take-down-content-face-impossible-content-moderation-choices.shtml > Like Gab before it, the hot new Twitter-wannabe service for assholes and trolls kicked off of Twitter is Parler. The President and a bunch of his supporters have hyped it up, and the latest is that Senator Ted Cruz (and Rep. Devin Nunes) have recently joined it, and like others before them they have hyped up the misleading claim that Parler supports free speech unlike Twitter. Cruz -- who has been spewing blatantly false information about "anti-conservative bias" on various internet platforms -- even announced his move to Parler... on Twitter, which does not seem to be moderating him at all. Cruz's overwrought speech is full of nonsense that has come to typify his pathetic attempt to win fans among Trump's base. > But, I did want to take a closer look at the claims that Parler supports free speech, because it does so in basically the same way every other platform -- including the way Twitter, Youtube and Facebook do: by saying that they can remove your content for any reason they want. Their user agreement includes this: