Parler Meets the Slippery Slope

Parler Meets the Slippery Slope
(Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

I have never used Parler. I have no account there. I have no desire to go there, to read there, to be there. And overnight, it’s gone.

From what I’m told, it was a steaming pile of hate and offensiveness, of violence and conspiracy, of schemes to undermine a nation’s institutions so that Trump’s reign could endure.

So good riddance, because who needs such a cesspool, right?

But the speed and ease with which it was disappeared was jarring. Google and Apple pulled the plug, disabling access to it from their app stores, swiftly followed by Amazon removing the site from their servers, and, poof, it was no more.

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