the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
brandeis, wrote, almost 100 years ago, that for bad speech, for lies and evil, quote, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not in enforced silence. it s a proposition with which i generally agree that speech should be met with better speech, not with censorship. in the aftermath of the synagogue attack, executives at gab something similar. quote, the answer of that speech will always be more speech, on quote. but the more speech i saw on gab this afternoon was more speech hailing not seize, and more speech engaging and holocaust denial. and more speech sharing more hideously racist posts than i ve ever seen in one place in my life. i saw less of it, but still, too much of it on parlor, today. it s about time we recognize that the hate on many of these far-right sites is not just an unfortunate result of belief in free speech. they hate is the whole point.