social media platform parlor suddenly
reappearing back online with a brief
message indicating it plans to welcome
users back
soon jackie deangelis with an update
from fox business hi jackie
hi good morning and congratulations dana
welcome parlor's website back on the web
with some limited functionality here
after being suspended a little bit more
than a week ago
not only from the web but also from
apple's app store and google play
if you go to parlor.com there is a note
from the ceo
reading hello world is this thing on
it's dated on saturday
there's also a message from the company
under a banner called technical
difficulties that says in part
we will resolve any challenge before us
and plan to welcome all of you back
soon we will not let civil discourse
perish now parlor ceo was on fox news
last night listen
google apple uh and
amazon web services all agreed that our
terms of service were acceptable
they never said publicly or anywhere as
far as i'm aware
that there was any problems with our
terms of service and free speech
now this all came in the wake of the
riots at the u.s capitol big
tech banning parlor it's a right-wing
twitter alternative and that was of
course for allowing messages that they
say incite violence
following president trump's ban on
twitter parlor got a lot of attention
as a new place to go if users felt that
twitter was unfairly censoring content
and users went there abandoning twitter
with many noticing that their follower
accounts were dramatically
lower parlor's future still uncertain
its ceo said that the platform
doesn't condone or allow violence yet
big tech rivals beg to differ guys
jackie deangelis always a pleasure to
see you thank you thank you so then want
to bring in mercedes slap former white
house strategic comms director and chris
hahn hosted the aggressive progressive
podcast
former aide to senator chuck schumer
welcome to both of you wow is this the
way it's going to be mercedes
where conservatives are going to have to
battle and push back to get a voice yet
again in america
well first of all i want to say
congratulations to both of you and
actually i think i've known dana mor
longer than you have bill so before i
even had children so there you go
uh but yes i mean conservatives are very
concerned that their voices will
continue to be silenced we saw yesterday
in a clip
on cnn a former facebook insider
basically saying
that we need to turn down the access
that conservative influencers have
to reach larger audiences this is very
troubling because it shows that big tech
is moving towards a more authoritarian
model and in essence
really trying to regulate uh free speech
so that's
very concerning for conservatives where
we feel that we need to continue
uh to address the far left agenda i mean
and that is where i think
we will continue to speak up continue to
be part of these uh platforms
in order to ensure that our voices are
heard
obviously at the same time ensuring that
we
condem any violence that happens on the
far left or the far
right chris if this were reverse you
would not be happy would you
i wouldn't be happy but i think it's
kind of funny that
all these people have been yelling
socialism and
oh let the free market capitalists do
what they want to do we're now trying to
tell
private companies what they should or
should not do and they want the
government to get involved
to regulate that so i find it ironic i
find it
uh you know ignorant quite frankly among
many people trying to
impose the first amendment on private
companies where it does not apply
so look i believe in free speech i do
not believe free speeches
i do believe in free speech i do not
believe it is absolute i think that if
you are you are encouraging violence
that needs to be
tapped out by this government and i
think these companies are doing the
right thing by trying to
avoid a platform that will allow
people to organize to destroy this
country frankly mercedes
so chris so you would then make the case
that what was happening in the streets
in the summertime that the democrats
did not even condemn the violence that
was happening they were burning down our
cities
you saw antifa and the more of the
violent factions of
of those groups basically going out
there and
burning down our cities you know
obviously confronting the police in a
violent fashion
and yet twitter didn't take that down
twitter didn't take down or censor the
ayatollah
they didn't take down or censor uh the
chinese government promoting
uh communist propaganda that's a double
standard
it's a it's a complete focus and disdain
on this president
and on his supporters and i tell you in
america
when these companies get too big they
need to be regulated and over 70 percent
of americans agree that the big
mercedes mercedes mercedes every major
democrat
every major democrat has condemned the
violence over the summer
every single one whereas the president
and his supporters spread the big lie
the president and his supporters spread
the big lie
that led to the riot that tried to
overthrow our government
kill our leaders including mike pence
chuck schumer
nancy pelosi that was happening in
right-wing media and the president
spent hours just enjoying it and did not
push back until he was forced to by
people
absolutely that is absolutely false it
is absolutely false
i think we have reached a moment where
it is ripe in this country
to have this debate unfortunately you're
only getting it here
but mercedes and chris i hope you accept
the invitation to come back and we'll
continue this discussion here
thanks to both of you we will and
congratulations bill thank you chris
thank you mercedes