Episode 189: Social Media Censorship – What’s Next for Parler?
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The social media app, Parler, has faced a Silicon Valley shutdown. The Parler app was founded as a “nonpartisan public square” for free speech and public opinion without censorship. So why are they being taken down by big tech and will they be back online soon? Newt’s guest is Amy Peikoff, Chief Policy Officer of Parler.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Neutral, the Democratic chair of the House Oversight Committee is calling |
| 0:05.6 | on the FBI to investigate parlors, potential role in the deadly U.S. Capitol attack, and |
| 0:11.3 | its possible use as a channel for foreign influence. |
| 0:15.0 | Parler suing Amazon for kicking the app off its cloud server. |
| 0:17.9 | Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney calls Parler a potential facilitator of planning and incitement |
| 0:23.8 | in the violence. |
| 0:24.8 | National leaders are questioning the site's potential role in the planning of the deadly |
| 0:29.5 | Capitol Hill riot earlier this month. |
| 0:31.7 | Apple has banned the fast growing parlor app. |
| 0:34.9 | Google has just removed Parler without any warning from its app store. |
| 0:39.0 | Cook decided the right thing for Apple was to suspend the conservative leaning social |
| 0:43.8 | media platform Parler from its app store. |
| 0:46.6 | We obviously don't control what's on the internet, but we've never viewed that our |
| 0:50.9 | platform should be a simple replication of the internet. |
| 0:54.9 | We have rules and regulations and we just ask that people abide by those. |
| 1:00.7 | People threatening my life, I can't go home tonight. |
| 1:03.3 | This is really a lot. |
| 1:04.7 | We will be back up eventually because we're not going to give up, but it soon is difficult. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi, this is Newt. |
| 1:11.8 | Do the virus and recording from home. |
| 1:14.2 | So you may notice a difference in audio quality. |
| 1:20.5 | We're looking at what's next for Parler, social media app that has offered conservatives |
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