{"id":14417,"date":"2020-11-26T03:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2020-11-26T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:08:38","slug":"parler-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14417","title":{"rendered":"Parler game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-game.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-game.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-game-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-game-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Erin O&#8217;Toole, Michelle Rempel Garner and Candice Bergen prominent Conservative MPs all play the Parler game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"977\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Parler-768x750.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Three prominent Conservative MPs are identified as Parler game participants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-Parler-game.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-Parler-game.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-Parler-game-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Court-Painter-Parler-game-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Court Painter with recent <em><strong>Parler gam<\/strong>e<\/em> painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parler<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/p\u0251\u02d0rl\u0259r\/<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key\"><em>PAR-ler<\/em><\/a>) is an American&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microblogging\">microblogging<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_networking\">social networking<\/a>&nbsp;service launched in August 2018. Parler has a significant user base of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Support_for_Donald_Trump\">Donald Trump supporters<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservatism_in_the_United_States\">conservatives<\/a>, and right-wing extremists.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-Reuters-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-BBC-2020-11-09-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-ADL-2020-11-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Posts on the service often contain&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Far-right_politics\">far-right<\/a>content,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-far-right-posts-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antisemitism\">antisemitism<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-antisemitic-posts-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Parler#RfC:_Should_&quot;antisemitism&quot;_be_removed_from_the_lead?\">discuss<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conspiracy_theory\">conspiracy theories<\/a>&nbsp;like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QAnon\">QAnon<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-conspiracy-theory-posts-20\">[20]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Journalists have described Parler as an alternative to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, and the service is popular among people who have been banned from mainstream social networks or oppose their moderation policies.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-Reuters-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-forward-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-:0-21\">[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parler markets itself as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_speech\">free speech<\/a>&#8221; and unbiased alternative to mainstream social networks such as Twitter and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>. However, journalists and users have criticized the service for content policies that are more restrictive than the company portrays and sometimes more restrictive than those of its competitors.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-:10-22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-fortune-23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-:8-24\">[24]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-:6-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Beginning in June 2020, some users reported being banned from Parler for espousing left-wing viewpoints.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-forward-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Parler#Inclusion_in_lead_of_left-wing_users_being_banned\">discuss<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November&nbsp;2020, the service had about 4&nbsp;million active users and over 10&nbsp;million total users.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-Horwitz-WSJ-2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parler#cite_note-Ingram-NBC-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/parler-logo-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14424\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parler&nbsp;(\/p\u0251\u02d0rl\u0259r\/,&nbsp;PAR-ler) is an American&nbsp;microblogging&nbsp;and&nbsp;social networking&nbsp;service launched in August 2018. Parler has a significant user base of&nbsp;Donald Trump supporters,&nbsp;conservatives, and right-wing extremists.[5][6][7]&nbsp;Posts on the service often contain&nbsp;far-rightcontent,[13]&nbsp;antisemitism,[16][discuss]&nbsp;and&nbsp;conspiracy theories&nbsp;like&nbsp;QAnon.[20]&nbsp;Journalists have described Parler as an alternative to&nbsp;Twitter, and the service is popular among people who have been banned from mainstream social networks or oppose their moderation policies.[5][8][21] Parler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Parler game&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14425,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}