When it comes to free speech, how far is too far?

These websites are not ideal.

They incentivize all kinds of behaviour I'd rather they didn't incentivize. Last month the professional right-wing controversialist Katie Hopkins was ruled permanently

too controversial for Twitter.

A lot of the time we get into a bit of a mess we discuss all this as if it was part

of an analog world and actually we're in a digital world. But in a global online space in practice

humanity clusters around on relatively few platforms.

And the companies who run them are now constantly under fire for allowing what they allow

and disallowing what they disallow. It's almost a free speech crisis.

You're listening to stories of our times and the Times and the Sunday times.

I'm David Aronovich. Today, that Katie Hopkins, was Twitter right to ban her? You're going to be. So this new rival to Twitter Parla has been around since the middle of 2018 I think and it's where Katie Hopkins has migrated to now that she's

off Twitter so let's just get into it and see if I can find her, okay, put it in Google.

Right, Parler, free expression, user privacy.

Parlor.com,

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forward slash access, free expression, user privacy.

Parlor is an unbiased social media focused on real user experiences and engagement.

Our content is moderated based off the FCC and the Supreme Court of the United States,

which enables free expression without violence and a lack of censorship.

Parlor never shares your personal data. It's now inviting me to sign up.

Okay. Now it's inviting me to enter a password which I would never remember in a month of Sundays I have my own

formula for this. Ah the provided password is not complex enough okay I've used their

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