Google has temporarily suspended the availability of the talk mobile app on Google Play. For its part, Apple is looking for a moderation plan on this social network of the American right, under penalty of being excluded from the App Store.
History suddenly accelerated, this weekend in January 2021. After the events in Washington, where pro-Trump supporters invaded the Capitol, an episode in which offices were ransacked and computers possibly compromised (Nancy Pelosi's laptop PC was stolen), and whose human toll shows five dead, several dozen injured, the major platforms have decided to take action, by neutralizing Donald Trump's online presence.
From Snapchat to Instagram, via TikTok, Twitch, Shopify, and Reddit, accounts are closed or locked, temporarily or indefinitely. Facebook, which had described an emergency after January 6, announced a suspension for a minimum of the fortnight. But the most symbolic blow came from Twitter, permanently suspending the outgoing president's personal account, causing him to lose 88 million subscribers on January 9.
GOOGLE SUSPENDS TALKING, APPLE GIVES IT 24 HOURS
Donald Trump has lost his digital megaphones, will he take refuge on Parler, the "Twitter" of the American hard right where moderation is absent? Nothing is a smaller amount certain: this social network is additionally within the hot seat. It has been reported by the American press that the 2 main application stores, Google Play for Android and therefore the App Store for iOS, are within the process of tightening the screws strongly, with the possibility of banning the software.
According to information from BuzzFeed, Apple, which controls the App Store, has given Parler an ultimatum to put in place a full moderation plan on its platform within the next 24 hours, or face expulsion from the platform. Shop. The publication of the American site, which en passant reproduces the e-mail sent by the Cupertino company to the managers of Parler, dates from January 8. The application is currently still listed on the App Store site.
For its part, Google has gone further, reports the Wall Street Journal. The internet giant has made the choice to temporarily suspend Talking from Google Play, thanks to violations of its rules on violent content, with calls and incitement from subscribers on the social network. " In view of this continuous and urgent threat to public safety, we are suspending the application's registrations on Google Play until these problems are resolved ", justifies the group.
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The Parler home page on the App Store.
Created in 2018, Parler has garnered many new members in 2020, to the point of becoming the most downloaded "news" application in the United States. And for good reason: it defends total freedom of expression, the absence of any moderation, which has not only attracted conservatives but also even more radical Trump supporters, where a lot of hateful content is poured. Moreover, these social networks are also benefiting from the hardening of moderation on Facebook or Twitter.
Asked about the possible switch of Donald Trump on Speaking, to find his base there, David Kaye, a law professor and former United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, judged favourably the actions of the networks more traditional societies. Even if the outgoing president emerged on another platform, then his voice would be diminished and less harmful. A hypothesis that Alex Stamps, the former head of security on Facebook, does not quite share.
Certainly, he will lose the ability to influence the general conversation, he observed. “ But when you talk about leading an insurgency, then you only need to talk to your base.” Talking one Alex Stamps, however, admitted earlier on Twitter that Facebook and Twitter were right to do so. to silence Trump, suggesting that legitimate debates over free speech only make sense if democracy exists - yet the rule of law appeared to falter in the US in early January.
According to the Twitter account of the Sleeping Giants campaign ("The Sleeping Giants"), which focuses on the fight against hate speech online, "the calls for violence on Speak are growing more and more," he wrote. January 8. " There are now open involves the murder of cops and thus the design of violence on January 20, when the handover will happen - without Donald Trump, who has decided to boycott the ceremony.
On January 7, the New York Times published a podcast titled If "You Were On Talking, You Saw The Crowd Coming” - it is even though this social network that some rioters have organized themselves. In it, it is recalled that John Matze, founder, and boss of Parler, judges that it is not his role to police public expression. It remains to be seen whether this will always be the case given the risk of no longer having access to Google Play or the App Store.
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