Three related aspects of this are highly troubling. The first is the tight coordination between the deep state government issuing censorship demands to the social medial companies. Second is how thoroughly the tech platforms are rigged and ready for comprehensive monitoring, with sub-second responses of banning, shadow-banning, post refusal, etc. That takes years of deliberate national-security-state-demanded software engineering efforts. And third, how no tech platform of substantial size is left alone.
Hypothetically, consider a free speech platform emerging during the Biden regime without black budget seed funding - one that somehow grew large pubic adoption. The surveillance state would swoop in and demand comprehensive censorship controls and full backdoor monitoring. (The same is true of telcos.) The Parler take-down is a potent reminder of their lust for control.
Parler... haven't thought about that place in years. Looking at their site today, go down and click 'AI Data Lake', what on earth are they up to over there 😐
Hmm. Parler has struck a partnership deal with a company called Sovren.
The customer pitch appears to be this. You're an influencer. You hop around multiple social media platforms including Parler (of course). Through some mechanism Sovren monitors all interactions with your audience regardless of the medium, which is stored in a central location on Sovren's servers. That's your "data lake". To which is applied some rebranded AI analysis. This is to help you increase engagement for the purpose of helping you sell more product on the side hustle.
I'd be surprised if Parler ever again became big. Their business plan is probably to assemble and test technology on a live platform - to have proof of value, then sell the company. That would not be the business plan pitched to investors. But often it is in fact the backup business plan that is the real deal in play.
Three related aspects of this are highly troubling. The first is the tight coordination between the deep state government issuing censorship demands to the social medial companies. Second is how thoroughly the tech platforms are rigged and ready for comprehensive monitoring, with sub-second responses of banning, shadow-banning, post refusal, etc. That takes years of deliberate national-security-state-demanded software engineering efforts. And third, how no tech platform of substantial size is left alone.
Hypothetically, consider a free speech platform emerging during the Biden regime without black budget seed funding - one that somehow grew large pubic adoption. The surveillance state would swoop in and demand comprehensive censorship controls and full backdoor monitoring. (The same is true of telcos.) The Parler take-down is a potent reminder of their lust for control.
Parler... haven't thought about that place in years. Looking at their site today, go down and click 'AI Data Lake', what on earth are they up to over there 😐
Hmm. Parler has struck a partnership deal with a company called Sovren.
The customer pitch appears to be this. You're an influencer. You hop around multiple social media platforms including Parler (of course). Through some mechanism Sovren monitors all interactions with your audience regardless of the medium, which is stored in a central location on Sovren's servers. That's your "data lake". To which is applied some rebranded AI analysis. This is to help you increase engagement for the purpose of helping you sell more product on the side hustle.
I'd be surprised if Parler ever again became big. Their business plan is probably to assemble and test technology on a live platform - to have proof of value, then sell the company. That would not be the business plan pitched to investors. But often it is in fact the backup business plan that is the real deal in play.