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Curious about continuing threats to our democracy and intrigued by the stat below, I took a gaze through #Parler videos from Hawaii.
1/ https://twitter.com/PeterCBlack/status/1349124725432193024
1/ https://twitter.com/PeterCBlack/status/1349124725432193024
After a very slow start in 2015, #parlervideo posts in the islands peaked in November 2020
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Oahu posted 74% of all videos, with Waipahu (96797) alone responsible for ~30% of all videos statewide.
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This interactive map of posts links to original public post video files
4/ https://parlervid.herokuapp.com
4/ https://parlervid.herokuapp.com
Most of the links are bunk as web service companies have ceased servicing the platform (for good reason)
5/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228675/amazon-parler-takedown-violent-threats-moderation-content-free-speech
5/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228675/amazon-parler-takedown-violent-threats-moderation-content-free-speech
Most, but not all. So I clicked around the state and viewed all the videos still up.
Nothing insurrectional surfaced. But a few trends did emerge:
1. Videos of TVs
2. Trump caravans/rallies
3. Trips to the gun range/beach/church
4. White folk
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Nothing insurrectional surfaced. But a few trends did emerge:
1. Videos of TVs
2. Trump caravans/rallies
3. Trips to the gun range/beach/church
4. White folk
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One highlight is ‘♡ TRUMP WON’ written in sand below the high waterline on 11/9/20.
Presumably an art piece about confusion, loss, and impermanence, since he lost and the tide will come.
Or maybe it is just a public performance of intransigence..
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https://parlervid.herokuapp.com/eeT58OyGM1XT
Presumably an art piece about confusion, loss, and impermanence, since he lost and the tide will come.
Or maybe it is just a public performance of intransigence..
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https://parlervid.herokuapp.com/eeT58OyGM1XT
Another was this playing on a tv, which provides a sense of a tone that recurred through some of the posts.
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Scraping work by @donk_enby, enabled by impressive ineptitude of #parler, has compiled TBs of #parlerarchive to comb through
9/ https://www.wired.com/story/parler-hack-data-public-posts-images-video/
9/ https://www.wired.com/story/parler-hack-data-public-posts-images-video/
Parsing #parler has some jarring findings, yet I agree with this author and "do not think the average Parler user deserves to be victimized, called a fascist, or have their privacy taken from them."
10/ https://anonymousdata.medium.com/violent-hashtag-frequencies-in-parler-eddab2871b66
10/ https://anonymousdata.medium.com/violent-hashtag-frequencies-in-parler-eddab2871b66
However, as new digital centers of violent organizing arise the #parlerarchive should be used understand how these echo chambers lead to bloodshed, and what we can do to stop it.
PAU. https://www.insider.com/telegram-far-right-is-searching-for-its-new-home-online-2021-1
PAU. https://www.insider.com/telegram-far-right-is-searching-for-its-new-home-online-2021-1
