# A sneak new Frank Parler app appears! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 2, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467 "2021-07-02T00:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/1 "2021-07-02T00:03:16Z")
> **[Team Trump quietly launches new social media platform](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/gettr-trump-social-media-platform-497606)** > > GETTR will be the newest MAGA venture in this space. It’s being led by Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller. How long before we can say “Gettr: done.”? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/2 "2021-07-02T00:15:30Z")
Gizmodo has a more detailed description: > **[MAGA Crowd Gets Its Wish for a Free Speech Hellhole, Patiently Awaits Trump’s...](https://gizmodo.com/maga-crowd-gets-its-wish-for-a-free-speech-hellhole-pa-1847214335)** > > Longtime Trump adviser Jason Miller has spearheaded the free speech revolution with GETTR, which may or may not be moderated. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/3 "2021-07-02T15:25:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > GETTR Were GRIFTR and LOOSR already taken? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/4 "2021-07-02T21:27:30Z")
> “The former president is going to make his own decision, it’s certainly there and ready for him should he make the decision — we would welcome that. There is an account reserved for him and waiting for him but that’s a decision for him to make,” said a person involved with the app. I read this as, “Trump is currently holding off until he sees how much money we are willing to give him in order for him to show.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/5 "2021-07-02T21:37:24Z")
Who wants to bet that GETTR will have a stronger “cancel culture” than any other social media platform? Except it will be against the “right people” so will not be called out as such by the right. Assuming this ever is actually used by anyone and doesn’t just evaporate in a matter of weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/6 "2021-07-02T22:15:35Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I read this as, “Trump is currently holding off until he sees how much money we are willing to give him in order for him to show.” To post on Parler he wanted 40% of their income and anyone who critisized him banned. They were willing to give the money but not the banning. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/7 "2021-07-02T22:49:55Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Assuming this ever is actually used by anyone and doesn’t just evaporate in a matter of weeks. Two?   ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/8 "2021-07-02T22:57:24Z")
2 weeks seems the magic term for the right of late, but I also remember Trump’s blog which lasted 4 weeks. (See, it was double gooder.) ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/9 "2021-07-03T01:23:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > GETTR > > Were GRIFTR and LOOSR already taken? Nice, Steve. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/10 "2021-07-03T17:50:53Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Assuming this ever is actually used by anyone and doesn’t just evaporate in a matter of weeks. Well, it’s apparently being used by _someone_… > **[New Social Media Site From Team Trump Upsets Qanon Faithful With Hentai and...](https://gizmodo.com/new-social-media-site-from-team-trump-upsets-qanon-fait-1847220199)** > > GETTR, the social media site recently launched by longtime Trump aide Jason Miller, is so filled with hentai even QAnon is disgusted. > GETTR, the new social media platform from the brilliant minds employed by our loser ex-president Donald Trump, has a lot of problems. > > It’s a Twitter clone riddled with slapdash, half-completed features, and cringe-inducing security flaws. It’s bankrolled by a fugitive Chinese billionaire who was recently highlighted as the center of a massive misinformation network and promotes the site with cringeworthy ads… And it’s barely moderated and filled with porn. > > To be more specific, very niche porn, like furries and hentai… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/11 "2021-07-03T19:33:20Z")
“And it’s barely moderated and filled with porn.” Just like Trump’s brain! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/12 "2021-07-04T14:26:38Z")
This is hysterical, it sounds like the entire venture has been hijacked. Which is what any non-stupid person should’ve anticipated from an unmoderated site. I wonder if the K-Pop fans had anything to do with this, it looks like one of their hashtag hijack campaigns. They’re good at it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/13 "2021-07-04T14:48:20Z")
Don’t fuck with K-Pop fans. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/14 "2021-07-04T15:39:17Z")
Down toward the bottom: > Miller himself told [Fox News in March](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-social-media-platform-return-adviser)that Trump would register for “something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media” that is going to “completely redefine the game” within two or three months. > > [According to Bloomberg](https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1410674992690434053), Trump apparently hasn’t deemed such a move to be worth his time, and it seems unlikely he’s going to change his mind now that the full extent of the GETTR clusterfuck is becoming obvious to everyone. Instead, he [recently joined Rumble](https://gizmodo.com/far-right-site-gab-is-very-mad-their-favorite-one-term-1847204130), a site that used to serve as a clearinghouse for licensing viral videos, but has since pivoted to serving as a hub for right-wing outrage bait like conservative podcasters and clips from the news re-uploaded with angry captions. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/15 "2021-07-04T16:01:52Z")
From the link in the bottom of @Skywatcher’s post: > [BuzzFeed reported](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/trump-parler-ownership?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4) that sources and documents showed that throughout 2020, Parler offered up to give up to [as much of 40%](https://gizmodo.com/trump-team-bargained-for-an-ownership-stake-in-parler-i-1846211969) of its total equity to Trump if he registered an account. The article also has the guy from Gab saying that the reason why Trump refused to go there was that they refused to remove antisemitism, and blamed that request on Jared Kushner. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/16 "2021-07-04T16:15:00Z")
GETTR? I barely knew 'er! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/17 "2021-07-04T17:24:44Z")
Looks like it was hacked again just a couple of hours ago: > ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/18 "2021-07-04T17:40:00Z")
Internet rule #5367: Without active content moderation, any open media format will invariably be filled with porn, hate speech and scams. If you are setting up a free speech zone to prevent censorship of hate speech and scams, you will inevitably pick up lots and lots porn. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/19 "2021-07-05T01:57:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Looks like it was hacked again just a couple of hours ago: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-trump-social-media-app-hacked-launch-day-half-million-sign-up-2021-07-04/) > “The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” Miller said in an emailed statement to Reuters. What are the odds _this_ intrusion was a decoy? Let’s hope. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467/20 "2021-07-05T03:15:48Z")
Change a few usernames? That’s pretty substantial access. How do they know they didn’t do something privately before doing the public stuff? Do they have logs? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sneak-new-frank-parler-app-appears/945467.md?page=2)