Jul 1, 2021 11:59 PM
MAGA crowd gets its wish for a free speech hellhole, patiently awaits Trump’s presence (excerpts): An unverified @realDonaldTrump account ... welcomes users to “my new Social Media Platform”—which tracks with his punctuation style, though Bloomberg senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted today that Trump has no plans to join, still dreaming of his very own platform.
[...] Jason Miller defined GETTR as a place that “doesn’t de-platform for political beliefs” and made the astoundingly bold claim that it uses “cutting edge technology that will really be the envy of the social media world.”
[...] Some libs are also there, sharing their ideas. ... GETTR’s leadership is also charting perilous territory, setting itself up to take on an asteroid field of bile without alienating its user base. It has, in fact, set up a tactful strategy shielding itself with enough power to pick and choose what to remove while simultaneously absolving itself of moderation responsibilities...
... Already, unverified accounts [...of those that...] frequently campaign against perceived conservative censorship by Big Tech—appear on the site.
[...] Another question is whether GETTR will have the will or moderation capacity to filter even content that’s objectively dangerous, like the death threats famously unaddressed by Parler. Those led to Amazon Web Services booting the site from its servers, but GETTR might have a gentler host in Cloudflare, which doesn’t specify an expectation of moderation standards in its terms of service... (MORE - details)
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Team Trump quietly launches new social media platform (excerpts): Former President Donald Trump’s team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
But the debut immediately ran into confusion about whether it was the former president’s long-promised bid to offer his legions of followers their own social media haven or merely the next attempt to build a MAGA-alternative to the main platforms.
The site, called GETTR, advertised its mission statement as “fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas.” The app is currently in beta form and will be officially launched on July 4 at 10a.m.
[...] Trump’s involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it. ... The former president has been looking for alternative ways to engage with his base online after having been booted off Twitter and suspended from Facebook...
GETTR is one of the highest-profile projects in a larger ecosystem of pro-MAGA tech and social media platforms that have blossomed on the right, largely fueled by a sense that Big Tech is attempting to silence conservative and pro-Trump ideology from being disseminated online...
[...] The name GETTR was inspired by the words “Getting Together.” Posts will be 777 characters long, the app will host videos up to three minutes in length, and will also be capable of hosting livestreams, the person working on the app said. Headquarters for the app are located in New York.
GETTR’s user interface appears similar to that of Twitter. [...] GETTR’s app also claims to offer new users the ability to “import copies of your content from Twitter to GETTR.”...
[...] Whether GETTR will succeed is dubious at best. Their last attempt to replicate his twitter feed, a site called “From The Desk of Donald Trump”, was widely derided as nothing more than a blog, barely received any web traffic, and shut down less than a month later... (MORE - details)
[...] Jason Miller defined GETTR as a place that “doesn’t de-platform for political beliefs” and made the astoundingly bold claim that it uses “cutting edge technology that will really be the envy of the social media world.”
[...] Some libs are also there, sharing their ideas. ... GETTR’s leadership is also charting perilous territory, setting itself up to take on an asteroid field of bile without alienating its user base. It has, in fact, set up a tactful strategy shielding itself with enough power to pick and choose what to remove while simultaneously absolving itself of moderation responsibilities...
... Already, unverified accounts [...of those that...] frequently campaign against perceived conservative censorship by Big Tech—appear on the site.
[...] Another question is whether GETTR will have the will or moderation capacity to filter even content that’s objectively dangerous, like the death threats famously unaddressed by Parler. Those led to Amazon Web Services booting the site from its servers, but GETTR might have a gentler host in Cloudflare, which doesn’t specify an expectation of moderation standards in its terms of service... (MORE - details)
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Team Trump quietly launches new social media platform (excerpts): Former President Donald Trump’s team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
But the debut immediately ran into confusion about whether it was the former president’s long-promised bid to offer his legions of followers their own social media haven or merely the next attempt to build a MAGA-alternative to the main platforms.
The site, called GETTR, advertised its mission statement as “fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas.” The app is currently in beta form and will be officially launched on July 4 at 10a.m.
[...] Trump’s involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it. ... The former president has been looking for alternative ways to engage with his base online after having been booted off Twitter and suspended from Facebook...
GETTR is one of the highest-profile projects in a larger ecosystem of pro-MAGA tech and social media platforms that have blossomed on the right, largely fueled by a sense that Big Tech is attempting to silence conservative and pro-Trump ideology from being disseminated online...
[...] The name GETTR was inspired by the words “Getting Together.” Posts will be 777 characters long, the app will host videos up to three minutes in length, and will also be capable of hosting livestreams, the person working on the app said. Headquarters for the app are located in New York.
GETTR’s user interface appears similar to that of Twitter. [...] GETTR’s app also claims to offer new users the ability to “import copies of your content from Twitter to GETTR.”...
[...] Whether GETTR will succeed is dubious at best. Their last attempt to replicate his twitter feed, a site called “From The Desk of Donald Trump”, was widely derided as nothing more than a blog, barely received any web traffic, and shut down less than a month later... (MORE - details)