Parler CEO John Matze promised that his now banned social media platform will be back in the near future with an edge over competitors and criticized the “crazy” double standard between his company’s treatment and Twitter.
“We want to go back and not just hard, but we want to do it and show that we have a better system for dealing with our own terms of service violations than our competitors. We want to make a bold statement when we do come back and we want to make it strong. That is my intention, “Matze told Fox News.
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In the wake of Capitol’s deadly uprising last week by a pro-Trump crowd, Google removed Parler’s app from its Google Play Store on Friday. Apple did the same on Saturday, removing the app from the App Store, while Amazon Web Services cut Parler from its web hosting services on Sunday.
Matze plans to bring the platform back from “a few days to a few weeks”, but plans to make the necessary adjustments to keep users safe.
“We will do things a little differently. The platform will be free speech first, and we will stick to it and promote free speech, but we will do more algorithmic approaches to content, but respecting people’s privacy as well. We want that people have privacy and freedom of speech, so we don’t want to track them. We don’t want to use your history and things like that to predict possible violations, but we’ll have algorithms across the content … to try to predict whether it’s a violation of the terms of service so that we can adjust faster and the most blatant things can be removed, “said Matze. “Therefore, appeals to violence, incitement, things of that nature, can be withdrawn immediately.”
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Matze said some of the changes were already in effect on Sunday night, adding that Parler warned Amazon that steps had been taken to create a more secure platform, but that didn’t matter to the tech giant.
“We even offered Amazon to have our engineers immediately use Amazon services – Amazon Rekognition and other tools – to find this content and get rid of it quickly, and Amazon said, ‘That’s not enough’, so apparently they don’t believe us. your own tools can be good enough to meet your own standards, “he said.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Parler filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday. It is seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent Amazon Web Services (AWS) from blacklisting Parler and alleges that Amazon Web Services is violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in the process.
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Although he was a non-partisan company, Parler has become a haven for Trump supporters and others who have been kicked out of Facebook and Twitter or have these social networks in protest.
Matze thinks that Parler’s critics who assume the platform is essentially the Wild West of social media platforms have no idea that the company previously had a point-based system to eliminate bad actors. The system penalized things like so-called “point” violence and accounts were automatically deleted as soon as they accumulated a certain number.
“We don’t have a suspension period or anything like that, you’re just excluded,” said Matze. “They will be banned if they are breaking the rules. It seems that most people who criticize Parler … know very little or nothing about what we stand for.”
He thinks Parler being shunned has started an important conversation about how big the Big Tech threat is to any nation’s “sovereignty”.
“I think banning the president from Twitter was a real shock to the world, for sure, with the power that social media companies have. And then combine that with Parler’s ban, which shows the power these tech companies have to solidify Twitter and Facebook’s monopoly and protect them, “said Matze.
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Now that Trump has been removed from Twitter and Parler has been banned for the time being, many liberal activists have turned their attention to trying to silence other conservative voices. Among the culprits is the liberal network CNN, whose employees have adopted Twitter to urge cable providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to stop offering conservative channels. Matze sees undeniable similarities between CNN employees working to disable the conservative news network platform and Twitter, allowing users to take down Parler.
“CNN is harnessing its power to kill its competitors, not in the market, but through pressures that can be seen as anticompetitive. This is very similar to what Twitter did with Parler, there is a large crowd of many cancellation culture minority voice on Twitter that has spread viral misinformation about what Parler stands for and viral misinformation about fake hacks that never occurred and things like that to tarnish our brand, “said Matze.
“They turned this into a weapon by branding companies like Amazon, like Apple, Google … all of our suppliers, and this can also be seen as anti-competitive, because Twitter is essentially an editor and they are setting aside a wild canceled culture crowd, purposefully targeting Twitter competitors, “continued Matze. “It is effective and it is working.”
The term “Hang Mike Pence” has become a trend on Twitter recently, indicating a double standard between how the two social media platforms are treated.
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“After 24 hours of our departure from Apple and Google, ‘Hang Mike Pence’ reached the top. To reach the top of Twitter, you need hundreds of thousands of tweets to do this. So hundreds of thousands of people threatened to hang the vice president of the United States and incited violence against the vice president the same day that Parler was expelled for 90 examples of content – this is what Amazon provided, 90 examples of content that has already been almost entirely excluded for violating our rules, “said Matze.
Matze said Apple’s examples were not links to real Parler content, but links to Twitter posts that contained “screenshots” of violent content in Parler.
“The double standard is really crazy,” he said.
Charles Creitz and Evie Fordham of Fox News contributed to this report