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False equivocation. This did happen but Twitter promptly banned this and variants [1]. Parler is failing / refusing to moderate.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/hang-mike-pe...

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Also false equivocation. Twitter failed/refused to moderate content for years throughout their meteoric growth, and only now are they barely getting a handle on it - and even then they seem to apply the rules in an uneven fashion.

Expecting any potential competitor to instantly achieve perfect moderation seems like a perfect way to entrench FB, Twitter and others as the de-facto public square.

Parler is not simply failing to "instantly achieve perfect moderation," and, I personally believe it is disingenuous to speculate the fact. The service's core principals include strict limits to moderation.

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