Parlez-vous racisme [Thread] 👇
Current user base ~1 million @parler_app's
"#DeclarationOfInternetIndependence" is not the first we've seen & likely not the last: news.parler.com/email-letters/… with intriguing but unspecified notions such as: "The People, not the #TechTyrants, must...
...share in the value of #monetizing our data". Hmm... "share" how, exactly?
Parler is organised as a (US) Limited Liability Company, so is every user a #member? Or is that privilege reserved for its #owners, John Matze & Jared Thomson? And their #investors?
(Hints of #BXP...)
And @parler_app's #PrivacyPolicy:
legal.parler.com/documents/priv… explicitly states it'll use your data "For #marketing & #advertising purposes," i.e. its business model (like most of its "#TechTyrant" rivals) is to #profile its users.
Interestingly, for an "anti-#censorship" platform..
...@parler_app's #UserAgreement, by which you're legally bound if you make use of its platform/services: legal.parler.com/documents/user… contains the magic word "#banned" 👇
#OOPS!
It baldly states "#Data is our #Property" without defining either in any fashion meaningfully distinct from the "#technofascists" it rails against, and @parler_app leaves you only with those "powers and rights not delegated to #Government or #Corporations".
Plus ça change...
And then, of course, there's this:
If this thing ever passes the threshold of relevance, the #kpopstans are gonna have a field day!
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