I Shrugged wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:26 am
And, so we are clear here, are any of you (doodle, Vinny) in favor of what's been done to Parler? Or are you just enjoying it because it hurts people you oppose? This is discussed in the article. Please elaborate.
My reaction is to have no pity for Parler.
I am extremely dependent on computers and all the information I've created. Therefore I own both a lot of computers and a lot external hard drives to preserve my access to both computers and my precious information. For anything else in life that I'm heavily dependent on I generally have more than one so that I'm not going to be stuck.
Parler seems to have not set up no backups for themselves in spite of what has happened to them being far from a remote probability. This is corporate negligence of the highest order.
I've detailed how both Facebook and Twitters have routinely shut me down because of my behavior and how I had to learn the proper behavior so that I would not get "Parler'ed" by either or both of them. They have their rules and if you want to use their free services then you must abide by their rules. Does not matter if you are just a single person like myself or some entity such as parler.com.
The prevailing sentiment in this forum has its usual conspiratorial undertones to it. That all these private corporations are acting in concert with one another.
Another thing I find amusing is that there is so much reviling of the government here with one of the reasons cited is that the government thinks that know what is best for everyone.
From what I've gathered here there do not seem to be any active users of Facebook or Twitter besides me? Yet many are fine with opining what should happen to Facebook and Twitter? Seems to be a somewhat "big government" mentality to me.
Finally, here is a major piece that all who know best seem to be missing precisely because they do seem to know little about either Facebook or Twitter or both.
Facebook and Twitter are in direct competition with one another.
If I'm deciding to spend some time on social media, they are my main two choices.
Sometimes it will be all Facebook. Sometimes it will be all Twitter. Sometimes it will be actively going back and forth (particularly when I'm putting things I find on Twitter to my Facebook page).
But these two social media giants are in direct competition with one another. If each had the power to mandate and control my behavior they'd not allow me to spend ANY time with the other. They want ALL of me. They do not want a shared me.
Therefore, for you conspiracy believers out there....what is in it for each of these companies to conspire with one another on this? How does it help them get more attention than their other main competitor?
I believe I'm continually told here that this country is more conservative than it is liberal.
If that is true, then why did either Twitter or Facebook not seize the competitive advantage of not catering to the liberal perspective but, instead, catering to the conservative perspective?
Does anyone doubt the that main purpose of both Twitter and Facebook is the same as any other mega-corporation -- to earn the maximum profits possible?
Therefore, I can only believe that Twitter / Facebook / Amazon each made their own individual decisions based upon some combination of how it would affect their bottom line and their corporate revulsions of how they've been played and used by Trump to assist him in so many of his vile "accomplishments".