Yo! Technology. What is it all about?

People are allowed to be offensive.

Speech naturally offends. This is the whole point.

I have to be able to say things which offend other people.

There isn't a world where there's safe speech. It just doesn't exist.

It's a meaningless term. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

This week, we take you to Nashville.

Nashville, I hear you saying?

Yes, Nashville, because that is where George Farmer lives.

And George is the CEO of a little social media startup called Parlor.

Now, you may remember about a year and a half ago, we had on John Mates, who was the founder of Parlor.

And Parlor, of course, is this, you know, social media, you know, micro-blogging site.

Kind of think of it as Twitter, but for conservatives and kind of extreme right folks.

And John and I had a very spirited discussion about the company, free speech, cancel culture, all of it.

And what happened was a few months after that interview, January 6th happened.

And Parlor was de-platformed.

It was kicked out of the App Store.

AWS basically canceled their contracts so they didn't have any servers to run on.

Parlor went poof and Mates was fired.

Now Farmer, who is from the UK, took over as CEO last year.

And this month, he's raised $20 bucks to help kind of rebuild the company and really

bring it back from the ashes, the Phoenix Rising, et cetera.

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