Discussions of right wing social media sites on HN are disturbingly sanitary. Before I posted this comment, the word "racism" appears one time among nearly 400 comments. "White supremacy" appeared only a handful of times. “Woman” or “women” appears nowhere in a discussion of a deeply misogynistic platform, movement, audience.
Just as dark patterns, predatory business models, and enablement of antisocial behavior harm other product domains, Parler incubated a disease that spread to, and diminished the value of, other social media.
If you cannot bring yourself to label bad things with forthright labels, you will not be able to keep them from damaging the value of what you create in technology.
Just as dark patterns, predatory business models, and enablement of antisocial behavior harm other product domains, Parler incubated a disease that spread to, and diminished the value of, other social media.
If you cannot bring yourself to label bad things with forthright labels, you will not be able to keep them from damaging the value of what you create in technology.