Parler CEO John Matze has been fired 📦

37    04 Feb 2021 02:29 by u/Line_Weights

>During his time as Parler CEO, Matze had consistently advocated for free speech, criticized Big Tech’s censorship practices, and said that Facebook and Twitter “insult our founding fathers by suggesting Zuckerberg and Dorsey know what is best for us.”

12 comments

16 u/Banned_Redditor 04 Feb 2021 02:51
Hope he starts a new social media company, with blackjack and hookers.
7 u/smauseth 04 Feb 2021 09:02
This is not good. Parler shouldn't just be right wing twitter. It should have been a free speech platform.
6 u/kek 04 Feb 2021 16:27
Yes but who is kicked off other platforms en masse? Typically right to alt-right so it's not surprising Parler will attract that user base.
1 u/smauseth 04 Feb 2021 19:06
So True
2 u/LiquidAurum 04 Feb 2021 16:33
Yeah this has been my main point for some time now. Gab, ruqqus, parler etc. shouldn't carry the "right wing x". It should be first and foremost free speech platform.
2 u/smauseth 04 Feb 2021 19:06
I agree. Especially considering I'm a right winger. I just don't want to see the censorship shoe switch feet. I also don't want to live in a different universe but in the same country as the other half.
2 u/RootHouston 06 Feb 2021 18:48
Then we should support guilds like +Democrat and +Communism being able to do their thing freely. As of now, it looks like a joke.
2 u/smauseth 06 Feb 2021 20:06
I don't have a problem with those guilds. As a fervent anti communist Republican those guilds don't hold any interest for me but they have every right to state their positions and not be censored. I support their right to exist without pressure to conform to me or anybody else.
6 u/itspeeg 04 Feb 2021 04:14
I thought he was the main guy. So they've basically outed him for not being proactive enough in terms of stability and getting cancelled?
4 u/NitroglycerinLtd 04 Feb 2021 11:34
It looks something like that, but people should definitely read the article in full.
5 u/None 04 Feb 2021 05:13
They needed a fall guy in order to open back up. Not sure what to think about the site after such a move.
2 u/_xy0_ 04 Feb 2021 07:47
wait what?