Parler was founded in Nevada in 2018.
After President Donald Trump (Trump) had his personal account deleted by Twitter on Friday night (Jan. 8), a large number of Trump followers turned to the emerging social platform Parler. sources say Trump has also joined. Google quickly removed the Parler App from its App store, and Apple issued a threat to Parler.
Fox News host Sean Hannity mentioned on his show Thursday that President Trump has an account on Parler, a social media platform that serves as an alternative to Twitter. He said the president joined Parler because Twitter was censoring what the president, White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and others were saying.
Just a day later, Google said in a statement that it would continue to suspend use of the Parler app until its developers commit to an appropriate policy that addresses “inappropriate content” on the platform. Google also claimed to have alerted Parler “recently”.
In suspending the service, Google cited its policy “against apps that promote violence” and cited several recent posts by Parler that were allegedly “violent,” including one on Friday that began, “How do we take back our country?” and another calling for a “million militia march” in Washington.
“Google never gave us any warning.” This is not an attack on Parler, this is an attack on our basic civil liberties and free speech rights,” Parler said in an electronic statement to the Epoch Times.
Apple, meanwhile, has threatened to remove Parler from its app store. On Friday, Apple claimed that Parler was used to incite a storming of the U.S. Capitol.
When Parler was founded, it vowed not to “politically censor” posts and accounts.
In a statement, Parler CEO John Matze said Apple applied standards that don’t apply to Twitter, Facebook or even Apple itself to the Parler social media platform.
Matze also shared the following two posts at the same time.
“We will not give in to anti-competitor pressure! We will and have been enforcing our rules against violence and illegal activities. But we will not give in to politically motivated companies and to despots who hate free speech!” Matzer said in the first posting.
In the second post, Matzer wrote, “The media is trying to claim that the ‘riots’ were organized on Parler. There are a number of problems with this.”
“1) Parler has no way to organize anything, and Facebook groups are heavily used to organize protests. 2) Protests are protected by the Constitution. 3) Bad guys turned (otherwise neutral) protests into riots.” He added, “I know the media and everyone wants to point fingers and assign blame. It’s convenient for them to turn Parler into a scapegoat.”
Matzer added, “We need to start thinking critically again and stop pointing fingers at each other. We must once again work to humanize each other instead of dehumanizing each other through witch hunt tactics that are counterproductive.”
On Friday evening, Twitter shut down both President Trump, prominent Georgia attorney Lin Wood, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, former U.S. national security adviser General Michael Social media users in the United States have flocked to Parler, Telegram and Gab after the accounts of former federal attorney Lin Wood, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, former national security adviser General Michael Flynn and the Trump campaign alleged that so-called “mainstream” social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and the oil tube are becoming increasingly left-leaning and aggressive in their censorship of speech. Others have dubbed “January 8, 2021” as the day of the “Twitter Massacre,” while others have redesigned the Twitter logo, saying it is getting closer to the Chinese Communist Party.
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