>> Ever since Donald Trump lost the general election, the number of conservatives who
have joined Parler has increased quite a bit. And it gives us an opportunity to
dunk on these conservatives, because they are being giant babies. Now, Parler is supposed to
be the answer to Twitter, as we know right wingers have been claiming that Twitter is censoring them.
They hate the fact that Twitter is now finally fact checking Donald
Trump and all the disinformation he puts out there regarding the election,
and so they're like. We wanna go to a place where we can really exercise our free speech, so
Parler became their safe space. Now Parler shot up to number one on Apple's App Store,
the date after major media outlets projected Joe Biden would win the 2020 presidential election.
Parler has been downloaded nearly 1 million times within five days of Election Day, November 3rd.
Now the original push to join Parler actually began in June when social media sites started
labeling Trump tweets as misleading. So here's a quick
example of various right-wingers who are like joined Parler, it's so great.
There's Rand Paul, it's about time you all join the Parler app. What's taking
the rest of you so long blah blah blah, you have Devin Nunes, is this myspace.
Dan Bongino join Parler, you guys get the picture. And Parler does describe itself as non-biased,
free speech social media focused on protecting user's rights.
And that's why Ted Cruz joined it, watch. >> Big Tech has shown the ability to shadowban
or to silence whatever you say. That's why I'm proud to join Parler. This platform
gets what free speech is all about, and I'm excited to be a part of it. Let's speak.
Let's speak freely
and let's end the Silicon Valley censorship. >> Except there's a catch, as expected, Parler
does censor opinions they don't like. So one Parler user, James Wellemeyer, told NBC News,
pretty much all of my leftist friends joined Parler to screw with MAGA folks. And every last
one of them was banned in less than 24 hours because conservatives truly love free speech.
Writer and comedian Tony Posnanski also received a band from the app saying,
free speech my ass I literally said less than here, and I got banned, he tweeted.
And by the way, I should note that Parler has some pretty sketchy privacy issues. For instance,
for people who choose to join the apps influencer network, the company may ask for information
such as your Social Security number or your tax identification number,
>> That is insane. >> That is insane.
>> I've literally never had a website, I don't think that wasn't affiliated with the government
that wanted either of those things. That's not gonna end up in some sort of massive con some way,
yeah, it's just nonsense. One of the issues with America is that we create language
that seems as if in theory could be applied to both people,
but it's only ever applied to people in the left or maybe the center.
When people are acknowledging that Joe Biden won the election, the right wingers get pissed off
because it's not politically correct. They don't use that term when right wingers get mad,
but that's definitely what is. Parler is a safe space, that's all it is. It's not about
censorship on other platforms, it's wanted to be insulated from opinions you don't like.
Twitter, censoring, no, they say shadowbanning, they've literally never proved that actually
happens. And if you want the best demonstration of how committed Twitter is to never censoring things
even when there's a very good case to be made that it should be. Donald Trump has tweeted today 30
things designed to help overthrow democracy, and they put a little label at the bottom.
They haven't got rid of it, he's totally fine, he can keep doing it. He'll do it
now in between now and inauguration 500 more times they'll never censor him. It's just that,
grift requires victimhood and so they will always pretend that they are censored no
matter how much extra boost and reach their given by people like Mark Zuckerberg and all of that.
It is pathetic. It's pathetic but they're making money off them.
>> Well, just one more piece of evidence to buttress your point or reinforce your point, John.
Who's funding Parler? Well, Parler is being funded by wealthy hedge fund investor Robert Mercer and
his daughter Rebekah Mercer. So it is a safe space for right wingers to argue that this is truly a
social media platform where all ideas are welcome to no one gets censored is absolutely ridiculous.
And there is a difference between censorship and
correcting a disinformation campaign. >> Yeah.
>> And I think that when it comes to our election and protecting our democracy,
labeling something as misleading makes a lot of sense. That's not the same as censoring someone.