parler data dumped

https://arstechnica.com/information...ould-come-back-to-haunt-capitol-hill-rioters/

Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one.

The rookie code made it easy to automate the scraping, as this script used by donk_enby’s archival team demonstrates. As a result, massive numbers of posts that discussed the insurrection before, during, and after it was carried out will be preserved indefinitely so that they’re available to researchers, journalists, prosecutors, and others.

Another amateur mistake was Parler’s failure to scrub geolocations from images and videos posted online. Sites like Twitter and Google routinely remove such metadata from content posted by their users. The video files hosted on Parler, by contrast, were “raw,” meaning they still contained this information.
 
Whoopsy....I guess the Mercer's may face some legal issues.

And the Insurrectionist users may face some as well.

I guess they can take up the right to privacy to insurect defense!
 

Wow.... from comments on that article:

wolrah
Quote:
Parler’s moderation policies—even more lax than those of Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube—already made the site popular with far-right users looking for a forum to discuss debunked conspiracy theories.
Please stop spreading this falsehood. The idea that Parler is lightly moderated and encourages free speech is purely marketing lies on their part. As noted by others their moderation is quite strict for the purpose of creating a right wing "safe space" where their ideas won't be questioned.

For example:

rabish12 wrote:
It's actually worse than just banning left-wing content. One of the more... "interesting" details to come out of the breach is that new users start out shadowbanned until enough of their posts are approved.
 
It's funny that Deplorables think they can re-define free speech by repeatedly lying about what it is. It's so cute. ;)

Nobody is trying to redefine it, except maybe SGT?? Doubt he'll stand by anything solid.

And certainly the "progressives" with their regular claims that 'hate speech isn't free speech!' lol...yes it is dumb leftist. :D

You're just anti-Free speech like most "progressive" democrats and too ashamed of it to own it. ;)
 

Questions and a comment:

So this Parler is a hotbed of the worse of the conspiracy nuts and was used to plan and coordinate the attack on the capital? So WTF didn't the FBI or someone in law enforcement have eyes or ears on what was going on? Or did they and ignored it because they thought it wasn't going to amount to anything?

If it were me, I'd leave it up. It's easy to keep an eye on the crazies if you got 'em all in one spot. And before someone goes off, I'm not advocating illegal monitoring; the FBI has legal ways to monitor crazies ready to do bad behavior.


Comshaw
 
It's funny that Deplorables think they can re-define free speech by repeatedly lying about what it is. It's so cute. ;)

It's the Trumpian technique. It's worked pretty well with the weak of brain.
 
Wow.... from comments on that article:

Reminds me of the time I got banned from a pro sports teams political forum because I said America only started being truly great when unions and civil rights groups organized to expand access to the American Dream. I'm betting a comment like that on "Paler" would result in banning.

In other news, it's being reported that the Capitol traitors used "Paler" to plan and coordinate the Capitol attack. Not surprising really.
 
Reminds me of the time I got banned from a pro sports teams political forum because I said America only started being truly great when unions and civil rights groups organized to expand access to the American Dream. I'm betting a comment like that on "Paler" would result in banning.

In other news, it's being reported that the Capitol traitors used "Paler" to plan and coordinate the Capitol attack. Not surprising really.

They wouldn't even need to ban you. They would just keep you in the default shadowbox. Shadowban means, you are the only one who sees your own posts, as if those were actually posted, while actually you're "on ignoe" for everyone else, they're not even aware of your presence. It's normally used against stupid troll recidivism, but on Parler, allegedly, everyone started that way, pending a silent release in the public space by a human moderator. In effect, first few posts as a minimum of a new user nobody would see until later if at all. (Well, unless they access it by simple incremental ID through unsecured API call, along with posts marked as being "deleted").
 
Nobody is trying to redefine it, except maybe SGT?? Doubt he'll stand by anything solid.

And certainly the "progressives" with their regular claims that 'hate speech isn't free speech!' lol...yes it is dumb leftist. :D

You're just anti-Free speech like most "progressive" democrats and too ashamed of it to own it. ;)

Let us know how the government is limiting what people can say. Looking forward to your response.
 
Post #5.
Here comes the, "I didn't say what I was directly quoted saying."

You're conflating free speech with a legal right.

The concept of free speech isn't exclusive to government.

It's being legally protected from infringement by the state that doesn't change the fact that censorship, is an anti-free speech act, regardless of who is doing the censoring.
 

Questions and a comment:

So this Parler is a hotbed of the worse of the conspiracy nuts and was used to plan and coordinate the attack on the capital? So WTF didn't the FBI or someone in law enforcement have eyes or ears on what was going on? Or did they and ignored it because they thought it wasn't going to amount to anything?

If it were me, I'd leave it up. It's easy to keep an eye on the crazies if you got 'em all in one spot. And before someone goes off, I'm not advocating illegal monitoring; the FBI has legal ways to monitor crazies ready to do bad behavior.


Comshaw

I think we will find it was brought forward, and Republicans in charge of giving orders turned a blind eye.
 
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