Content Moderation Comes for Parler and Gettr
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Let’s say you’re a freedom-loving American fed up with Big Tech’s effort to censor your posts. Where can you take your business? One option is Parler—the social media platform that became notorious for its use by the Capitol rioters. Another is Gettr—a new site started by former Trump aide Jason Miller.
Unfortunately, both platforms have problems. They don’t work very well. They might leak your personal data. They’re full of spam. And they seem less than concerned about hosting some of the internet’s worst illegal content. Can it be that some content moderation is necessary after all?
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem. Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with David Thiel, the big data architect and chief technical officer of the Stanford Internet Observatory. With his colleagues at Stanford, David has put together reports on the inner workings of both Parler and Gettr. They talked about how these websites work (and don’t), the strange contours of what both platforms are and aren’t willing to moderate, and what we should expect from the odd world of “alt-tech.”
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.8 | I think that there is a little bit of a path that all of these companies have to go down |
| 0:39.2 | to as they start narrowing down what they want, but yeah, they're not sticking to this |
| 0:44.1 | kind of constitutional idea of free speech because they've gone out of their way to say |
| 0:50.0 | that on Gitter for example, they have some left wing trolls and they were taking those |
| 0:56.2 | people off the platform because they came there to cause trouble. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast September 9, 2021. |
| 1:06.7 | Let's say you're a freedom loving American, fed up with big techs efforts to censor your |
| 1:12.1 | posts. |
| 1:13.1 | Where can you take your business? |
| 1:15.7 | One option is parlor, the social media platform that became notorious for its use by the |
| 1:20.6 | capital rioters. |
| 1:23.1 | Another is Gitter, a new site started by former Trump aid Jason Miller. |
| 1:28.9 | Unfortunately both platforms have problems. |
| 1:32.4 | They don't work very well. |
| 1:34.2 | They might leak your personal data. |
| 1:36.5 | They're full of spam and they seem less than concerned about hosting some of the internet's |
| 1:42.2 | worst illegal content. |
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