I suppose the focus on tech/code and lack of political content dissuaded them completely. Good!
I don't think there is much evidence for this 'Lich King' thesis that keeps coming up on HN. Destroying these platforms has likely positive effects.
I'm surprised people even find this intuitive. When you want to deprogram extremists in the real world you take them out of their radical communities, you don't put them into a nazi village or send them off to ISIS.
>Parler is not necessarily extremist but skews heavily partisan, drawing mostly conservative and right-wing users based on false claims that other social media sites "censor" conservative views for political reasons
There's no dispute that social media cites censor conservatives for their political views (as well as independents, liberals and anyone else who sings a tune that doesn't align with their chosen political narrative). Whether its the NY Post or the World Socialist Website, political censorship on social media (and elsewhere) is ubiquitous. Its a shame so few outlets are capable of reporting straight news without injecting their chosen political narrative (false or otherwise).
Shocking.
