How come Quillette hasn’t stepped into the breach by standing up a Parler-lite 
It’s like this is a heaven-sent opportunity for them to level up a tier
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This is what is known in the business as a high-maintenance audience. A crowd it’s costly to serve a self-speaking platform to, but doesn’t fit the “speak for the voiceless” pattern either.
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Possibly true, but a) there are/have been many brilliant techies who are/would have been Trumpies (Shockley, Metcalfe,... Palmer Luckey probably counts too) b) there are many who probably can’t fix their own tech problems (artists etc) who I do want to hear fromhttps://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1348048061755498507 …
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It’s not that they can’t do what’s necessary. It’s that they know they’ll never be the majority, and they want recognition of their preferred rules of engagement on the majority platform. They don’t want to admit they’re merely disliked by a majority without being oppressed.
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So their options are to either get autocratic imposition of their preferred rules (say whatever, whenever, to whoever, without consequences) or hide disingenuously behind pretended belief in lofty principles they argue should be installed above an imagined tyranny of the majority
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