Parler CEO John Matze has promised that his now-banned social media platform will come back with competitors in the near future and has toppled the ‘crazy’ double standard between treating his company and Twitter.
“We want to come back and not just come back strong, but we want to do it and show that we have a better system to violate our own terms of service than our competitors. We want to make a bold statement when we come back and we want it “It’s my intention,” Matze told Fox News.
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In the wake of the deadly Capitol riot last week by a pro-Trump mob, Google Parler’s app dropped out of its Google Play Store on Friday. Apple followed suit by removing the app from the App Store, while Amazon Web Services cut Parler off its web hosting services on Sunday.
Matze plans to reintroduce the platform, from a few days to a few weeks, but plans to make adjustments to keep users safe.
“We’re going to do things a little differently. The platform will first be freedom of speech, and we’ll stick to it and we’ll promote freedom of speech, but we’ll take more algorithmic approaches to content, but do it to respect people’s privacy. We also want people to have privacy and freedom of speech, so we do not want to track people down, we do not want to use their history and things of that nature to predict possible transgressions, but algorithms will make us look at all the content … to try and predict whether it is a violation of the terms of service, so that we can adapt faster and take down the most serious things, “said Matze. “Calls for violence, incitement, things of this nature, can therefore be removed immediately.”
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Matze said some of the changes were already in place by Sunday night, adding that Parler had made Amazon aware that steps had been taken to create a safer platform, but that it did not matter to the technology giant.
“We even offered Amazon to immediately use our engineers of Amazon services – Amazon Recognition and other tools – to find the content and get rid of it quickly, and Amazon said, ‘This is not enough,’ they said. “apparently do not believe in their own. tools can be good enough to meet their own standards,” he said.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday. The organization is seeking a temporary restraining order to withhold Amazon Web Services (AWS) from Parler’s blacklist and claims Amazon Web Services is violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in the filing.
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While a non-partisan company, Parler has become a haven for Trump supporters and others who have either been kicked off Facebook and Twitter or have the social networks in protest.
Matze believes that critics of Parler, who accepts that the platform is essentially the Wild West of social media platforms, have no idea that the company previously had a points system to eradicate bad actors. The system penalized things like calls to violence with ‘points’ and accounts were automatically deleted as soon as a certain number was accumulated.
“We do not have a suspension period or anything like that; you are just being wiped out,” Matze said. “They will be banned if they break the rules. It seems like most people who are critical of Parler … very little to nothing knows what we stand for.”
He feels that avoiding Parler has started an important conversation about how big a threat Big Tech is to the ‘sovereignty’ of any nation.
“I think Twitter to ban the president was a real shock to the world, it’s definitely the power that social media companies possess. And then combine that with the ban on Parler, which shows the power in which these tech companies Twitter must strengthen Facebook’s monopoly and protect them, ”Matze said.
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Now that Trump has been temporarily removed from Twitter and Parler banned, many liberal activists have turned their attention to silencing other conservative voices. Among the culprits is the liberal network CNN, whose staff goes to Twitter for cable service providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to no longer offer conservative channels. Matze sees undeniable similarities between CNN staff members deploying conservative news networks and Twitter, which allows users to dismiss Parler.
“CNN uses its power to kill its competitors, not in the marketplace, but through pressure that can be considered competitive. This is very similar to what Twitter did to Parler. Minorities on Twitter that spread viral misinformation about what Parler stands and viral misinformation about fake hacks that never occurred and things like that to slander our brand, “Matze said.
“They’ve fueled it by branding companies like Amazon, like Apple, Google … all of our suppliers, and it can also be competitive, because Twitter is essentially a publisher and they allow a canceling culture pendulum to go wild, deliberately. on Twitter’s competitors, “Matze continued.” It’s effective and it works. “
The term “Hang Mike Pence” was recently allowed on Twitter, indicating a double standard between dealing with the two social media platforms.
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“Within 24 hours of being kicked out of Apple and Google, ‘Hang Mike Pence’ came to the fore. Which, to tend to the top of Twitter, requires hundreds of thousands of tweets to do so. Hundreds of thousands of people threatened to hang the Vice President of the United States and incite the same day as violence against the Vice President. Parler was kicked off for 90 examples of content – that’s what Amazon provided, 90 examples of content that were mostly mostly deleted due to violations of our rules, ‘Matze said.
Matze said Apple’s examples were not links to actual Parler content, but rather links to Twitter posts with ‘screenshots’ of violent content on Parler.
“The double standard is really crazy,” he said.
Fox News’ Charles Creitz and Evie Fordham contributed to this report