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Parler, the 'Free Speech' platform is already banning people

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As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like
Conservatives are flocking to a new 'free speech' social media app that has started banning liberal users

 

Reply to: Re:Protocols not platforms

    (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:51PM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:51PM (#1079442)
    Sure, if you view it in purely technical terms; well no even that's not true. Much of the data on the platform /can/ be reached via web page, though they make that absurdly painful, but that's clearly not how they want to be approached. It's an app thing really, but I'll let you have it for the sake of argument because that's just not how it's used or how it operates.

    The function of the platform is conceptually quite simple, though the API has developed some complication it's still fundamentally doing the same thing it's always done - allowing people to broadcast very short text messages to their 'followers' and to receive the same from those they 'follow.' It's a simple idea, and certainly one with some utility, however it could be implemented many ways. And the devil is in the implementation.

    Twitter, and Parler, and these 'platforms' generally are deliberately designed to have a single point of control. This gives whatever entity is behind it the ability to collect rent, which is what they're after, but it is an abominably poor choice in every other way.

    Want a twitter without censorship? It has to be a peer to peer protocol. No central authority with the power to ban anyone - or to force ads down anyone's throat either. Which probably means it would have to be 100% produced and maintained by volunteers, because without generating revenue it can't have employees. You could 'ban' anyone you wanted, by simply ceasing to follow or publish to them, but it wouldn't affect their relationship with anyone else.

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