<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>And yet mysteriously I&amp;#x27;m fairly certain that person didn&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;have&amp;quot; an account there...</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>&amp;gt; In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views.&lt;p&gt;You can even get fired for having an account there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25922486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25922486&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bigmattystyles</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m slightly left of center so parler is not for me - but I am curious and I like to see what&amp;#x27;s going on outside of my bubble. When I had to commute to work for instance, I&amp;#x27;d listen to AM talk radio on the way in. It did nothing but reinforce my left of center world view. In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views. With parler&amp;#x27;s poor history of user data handling, there is no way I am even creating an account and risk having my (real-life) reputation take a hit. It&amp;#x27;s a sad state of affairs. 
Now, one might argue that I&amp;#x27;ve just said I&amp;#x27;m slightly left of center on hackernews, why don&amp;#x27;t I fear that - it wouldn&amp;#x27;t take much for someone who already knows me to tie my person to this account. I guess parler has a reputation as being (extreme?) far right and that&amp;#x27;s the difference. Again, it doesn&amp;#x27;t make much sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway19937</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t found any evidence that she posted anything offensive.&lt;p&gt;According to (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reclaimthenet.org&amp;#x2F;literary-agent-fired-gab-parler&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reclaimthenet.org&amp;#x2F;literary-agent-fired-gab-parler&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25924637&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25924637&lt;/a&gt;) her Gab and Parler posts were mirrored from Twitter.&lt;p&gt;Newsweek&amp;#x27;s story on the firing (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;literary-agents-firing-over-parler-gab-accounts-stirs-free-speech-debate-1566324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newsweek.com&amp;#x2F;literary-agents-firing-over-parler-...&lt;/a&gt;) doesn&amp;#x27;t mention any offensive posts on Gab.&lt;p&gt;None of the Reddit discussions I have looked at mention any offensive posts either; I would expect Reddit to find such posts if they had existed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>And yet mysteriously I&amp;#x27;m fairly certain that person didn&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;have&amp;quot; an account there...</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>&amp;gt; In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views.&lt;p&gt;You can even get fired for having an account there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25922486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25922486&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bigmattystyles</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m slightly left of center so parler is not for me - but I am curious and I like to see what&amp;#x27;s going on outside of my bubble. When I had to commute to work for instance, I&amp;#x27;d listen to AM talk radio on the way in. It did nothing but reinforce my left of center world view. In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views. With parler&amp;#x27;s poor history of user data handling, there is no way I am even creating an account and risk having my (real-life) reputation take a hit. It&amp;#x27;s a sad state of affairs. 
Now, one might argue that I&amp;#x27;ve just said I&amp;#x27;m slightly left of center on hackernews, why don&amp;#x27;t I fear that - it wouldn&amp;#x27;t take much for someone who already knows me to tie my person to this account. I guess parler has a reputation as being (extreme?) far right and that&amp;#x27;s the difference. Again, it doesn&amp;#x27;t make much sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttt0</author><text>I have no idea, but neither did the people who fired this person. It was purely on the grounds that he had an account there.</text></comment>