# New-ish "free speech" app, Parler

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109 "2020-11-09T03:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ish-free-speech-app-parler/925109/386 "2021-01-31T02:34:56Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> I’m not just talking about saying things that are currently politically incorrect. I’m saying that through the internet people now have access to information about you that they otherwise couldn’t legally ask, and which may cause them to be prejudiced against you. Perhaps you disclosed that you occasionally have chest pains in a post asking people if it’s serious, and now your insurer may have an issue with you. Or stuff you say that YOU didn’t think is objectionable pisses off an employer, so they don’t hire you.
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> And don’t forget - the Overton window is always moving. What is today’s unobjectionable statement my be tomorrow’s anathema, and the Internet is forever. We have already seen people have their careers ruined over actions taken or things sid years ago that were at best mildly inappropriate then, but are now despicable. […]
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> This isn’t about good behaviiur on the internet, or having the ‘right’ idea. It’s about asymmetric information and the dangers it poses to privacy and civil society.

Heh. Anybody remember the [SDMB poster named Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-libertarian-debate-thread/685685/152)? Wonder what ever happened to that guy.

> [@Sam\_Stone (April 2014)](#):
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> You are setting up a dichotomy whereby you’re casting the business as an agent of force/power equivalent to government so you can make crazy claims like not being able to find a job while espousing obnoxious views is somehow a violation of your _political_ rights.
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> Let me ask you - should a Jewish businessman be required to hire an employee who supports terrorism against Jews or who denies the holocaust? Should an abortion clinic be forced to hire a Catholic receptionist who is overtly and vocally hostile to abortion? Does that employee have a right to demand that the clinic stop giving abortions, because she has a ‘right’ to that job on her terms? And if you think so, what have you done to the right of free association that presumably the owner of the abortion clinic or the Jewish shopkeeper also enjoys? Or are political rights only for people who don’t employ others?

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