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7 Jan, 6 tweets, 6 min read
Honest question for @AppStore and @GooglePlay.

If Parler continues to allow incitement and calls for violence, doesn’t that break your Terms of Service for apps?
More serious threats today on Parler.

These clearly break both the @AppStore and @GooglePlay terms of service for apps.
Yet more incredibly violent threats on Parler. This time to @VP Mike Pence.

Seriously...how can @AppStore and @GooglePlay continue to carry Parler with these dangerous calls to violence?

It clearly violates their Terms of Service!
The incitement and serious calls to violence aren't stopping on Parler and the platform refuses to moderate them. This isn't free speech. This is a real threat.

Meanwhile, @AppStore and @GooglePlay continue to carry this app. #PullParler
Right now, on Parler, there are users openly planning for a second act after Tuesday’s attack.

When will @AppStore and @GooglePlay take action on this app that clearly breaks their Terms of Service and could very well lead to more violence? This is ridiculous.

#PullParler
It’s getting worse over on Parler today if that’s even possible. Now users are openly calling for the *murder of police*.

As of right now, despite severely breaking the Terms of Service of both @AppStore and @GooglePlay, they’re both still carrying this app.
#PullParler

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9 Jan
THREAD ON TONIGHT:

For four years, this account has asked social platforms to simply follow their own Terms of Service which they, themselves wrote around hate, harassment, disinformation & violent threats.

Tonight is huge, as many of the platforms are finally doing it. 1
As good as it is seeing platforms like @Twitter @Facebook and @YouTube take action on the most extreme cases, they have largely ignored these problems for years, which has led to a significant degradation in everything from democracy to personal safety, including Tuesday’s coup.2
This is not and has never been a free speech issue. These platforms are massively profitable advertising and data mining companies. They are under no obligation to provide anyone with a platform, especially violent & racist users. No one is owed a spot on these networks. 3
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8 Jan
Yesterday, we asked @AppStore and @GooglePlay to enforce their own Terms of Service on Parler based on the sheer number of violent threats on the platform with #PullParler.

Look at the VERY CLEAR terms set by these two app stores below:
These are the Terms for both user-generated and Objectionable Content as published by @Apple’s @AppStore.

The threats and inability for Parler to moderate these violent threats on their app should disqualify the app instantly from the AppStore. #PullParler ImageImageImage
Over on @GooglePlay, the Terms of Service are even more clear, forbidding both violence and hate explicitly as well as harassment on any app distributed by the store.

Again, @Google has created these rules *themselves*. They should enforce their own policies. #PullParler ImageImageImage
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29 Dec 20
This piece is ridiculous.

1) Stop conflating “free speech” with advertising and data mining businesses. Moderation is done for customers (advertisers), not for 1A, which does not apply to them.

2) Competition is great! Let it happen. It will take the power away from monopolies!
3) The entire point of neo-Nazis, disinformation-peddlers and foreign influence operations using these big platforms is to recruit, amplify to more people and monetize. If they go to smaller platforms, great. But they don’t want to because they don’t have the reach.
4) The entire FrEE SpEeCH argument is blown up within this piece by the author. When you go to other, smaller platforms, you’re STILL POSTING! No one is being stopped from speaking their mind. They just don’t get to amplify. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Duh.
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27 Dec 20
“We want to stop this behavior...and we know we have a lot more to do.”

Sound familiar?

This ⁦@TaylorLorenz⁩ piece spells out why ⁦@instagram⁩ is no better than it’s parent company ⁦@Facebook⁩ when it comes to harassment. No surprise. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
.@instagram has somehow succeeded in convincing the world that it’s a fun, friendly platform.

In fact, it’s just like every other platform, filled with hate, disinformation and harassment, unable or unwilling to do the sizable moderation that it requires.
Having been a victim of intense harassment on this platform and others, it is beyond ridiculous that users, who have voluntarily given these platforms their data, are regularly left to fend for themselves and helpless to deal with what should be the simplest right: To feel safe.
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14 Nov 20
NEW: Not only is @youtube doing the bare minimum to stop election disinformation coming from OANN, they’re allowing it to be profitable by placing major advertisers on these videos. This is unbelievably irresponsible.

Examples below:
Here’s @Athleta sponsoring one of OANN’s videos that is labeled by @youtube to be election misinformation.
Here’s @QuickenLoans inadvertently sponsoring a debunked Project Veritas report on OANN because @YouTube placed them there.
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11 Oct 20
There is such a formula to this grift.
Seriously, come on.
Is this real life?
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