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		fsociety on Jan 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Incubated the Insurrection It’s doublespeak to say “I saw no calls for violence when I was on platform” and then to say “of course there was calls for violence on the platform, they are on every platform”. Which is it? Facebook optimizes for engagement.. Parler optimizes for free speech. Why did Parler optimize for free speech? Is it because some of the members were being banned from the other platforms for extremism? Did Parler gain network effect because of those certain members moving over to the platform? You have to think deeper about the whys here.

_yid9 on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

I’m certain they existed; I just didn’t see any, in a month or so of very active trawling of Parler.

So, in my experience, Parler’s primary purpose was unlikely the planning of evil.

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