00:00When I'm on power lines, get off Facebook, get off Twitter.
00:02I made the switch this week and I made it because I was tired of being censored.
00:07Facebook is worthless, Twitter is worthless.
00:30They keep kicking me off for posting the truth, told me it was all lies when I know it's the
00:50truth.
00:51You post one thing that is a fact about Biden, and in fact, Cechak says it's not true.
00:55I don't want them to shut the other side down for me.
00:58I just don't want them to shut me down.
01:01A free, fair, open marketplace of opinions.
01:04That's what we're supposed to have in this country.
01:18Obviously there's something going on in the social media space that's leading to a lot
01:22of hate and violence.
01:23Our solution and our solution to the problem is just to give more power to the people.
01:41Big tech has shown the ability to shadow ban or to silence whatever you say, whatever you
01:47post without anyone ever knowing about it.
01:51That's why I'm proud to join Parler.
01:55This platform gets what free speech is all about, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
02:18Over time, Facebook and Twitter have learned that if they just let absolutely anything
02:24fly, a lot of potentially dangerous content, whether that be hate group content or content
02:30that is factually inaccurate and may be damaging to democracies, tends to spread on a site.
02:36If sites do nothing to police that, that can create its own ecosystem and cause lots of
02:42problems.
03:01The reality is we have seen an extraordinary rise of white supremacists, QAnon conspiratorialists,
03:09anti-vaxxers, neo-Nazis and other types using Parler as an outlet because they are not
03:16finding a home on places like Facebook or Twitter anymore.
03:19What Parler has to ask itself is whether it wants to be truly a public square like its
03:24founder has talked about, or whether it wants to be a fraternity party where the loudest,
03:30you know, most sensationalist voices are able to dominate.
03:57If in fact what's happening is it's influencers and they're going to bring stuff from this
04:01site to the mainstream, then to the extent that there's content on the site that is inaccurate,
04:08hateful or the like, they could be re-injecting that into society in various ways.
04:13If the group of people moving there is more idiosyncratic, the concern is actually that
04:18what happens is that they find themselves in a bit of a bubble and they start reinforcing
04:23and echoing and if there are enough of them to actually make, you know, to have some impact,
04:30they're just in a completely different media space and interacting even less with the rest
04:35of us.
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