you know what i'm talking about. ""free speech"" social networks that are just echo chamber shitholes in disguise.
my hatred for these will never end because most of the time they're not even really free speech. these networks are one of those places where free speech == hate speech & homophobia. they also usually lack moderation. the most blatant example of this is Parler. it along with basically all of the other networks like it requires a phone number to sign up, which is personal info the government can use to basically track you down and censor you. in fact, Parler actually allows you to literally send in your ID so you can display a shitty badge on your profile. yeah, i'll admit, it's not mandatory but people still sent in their ID because badges are cool right? in fact they didn't even have good security, resulting in an inevitable hack which then also results in millions of boomers getting doxxed. we're talking full-blown doxx here. full names, faces, ids, phone numbers, all leaked. although surprisingly, it wasn't LAPSUS$ who hacked them..
if you really give a fuck about free speech, you also need to make your so called free speech platform private.
they are also not decentralized, meaning the government can shut down the entire fucking platform if they feel like it. and again, since these platforms store a fuck ton of data about their users so the government now gains access to those as well.
you can't just go "WOOHOO FREEDOM!!!!! WE DON'T BAN ANYONE!!!!! ANARCHY RULES!!!!!" because you'd have to ban at least one person on your platform, or struggle and eventually collapse like Voat.
*COUGH* *COUGH*
Voat had to shut down 4 of it's own subverses, 2 of which hosted sexualized images of minors ("jailbait).these platforms also make it extremely easy to spread misinformation because "muh free speech". i could say birds aren't real on there and everyone would believe me. parler in particular hosted a campaign saying they would give out 20 thousand dollars into any left-wing person that joined. almost all of those accounts have been suspended. also they ban poop and bad words but not literal fucking racism, misinformation, etc.
tl;dr: parler sucks, get over it you dumbass