The Mercer Family Is Funding the Right-Wing Social Network Parler: WSJ

[applegrove]

The Mercer Family Is Funding the Right-Wing Social Network Parler: WSJ

PARLER TRICK

Blake Montgomery, Reporter at the Daily Beast

Updated Nov. 14, 2020 5:04PM ET Published Nov. 14, 2020 3:36PM ET 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-and-rebekah-mercer-are-funding-the-right-wing-social-network-parler-wsj-reports?ref=home

"SNIP.....

Robert and Rebekah Mercer are funding the moderation-free Twitter alternative Parler, The Wall Street Journal reports. Neither the hedge fund billionaire nor his daughter commented to the Journal on why, but both have financed many of the highest-profile ultra-conservative causes of recent years like Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart News, and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The app has grown to 10 million users thanks in large part to conservatives chafing against other social networks’ content moderation policies, which, among other things, prohibit false claims that the election was stolen.

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[In It to Win It]

1. They have a safe space, how cute?

[CatMor]

2. I was wondering what those weirdos were up to....

they didn't get trump in this time.

[LeftInTX]

3. I forgot about them.....

[CurtEastPoint]

4. They got plenty of 'safe space' in their goddamn ginormous fucking foreheads.

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. Cousins of the Coneheads??

[CurtEastPoint]

12. Here we are! The Mercerheads

[blue neen]

9. Wow, these people have extremely large heads.

It just goes to show you, money can't buy you everything.

[LunaSea]

27. I believe they arrived on Earth

sometime in the mid-fifties.

[jmowreader]

19. It is hard for me to believe...

...but there's actually a right-winger out there whose makeup is worse than Trump's.

[roamer65]

5. We have to persecute the Mercers and the Murdochs.

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Both.

[applegrove]

8. Prosecute. Investigate their influence and power.

[roamer65]

13. Both.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Dammit. I already sharpened the pitchfork. Do I really have to put it away?

Can't we do just a little persecution before prosecution?

[applegrove]

17. Studying them and who they are and what they've done and publicizing

it are 3 tines that are sharper. The fourth would be legislation to make sure power is not so concentrated.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. I propose a compromise: Persecution, perforation, prosecution, then prison!

A hayfork has a 5th tine, so that can be the legislation.

[applegrove]

20. I stand corrected.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. On what? You lost me. I'm still pining to persecute the Mercers, though.

They couldn't have gotten all that influence and wielded it so damagingly without crossing some line, somewhere that a prosecutor could use.

[applegrove]

23. Little known story when Mercer wanted to invent computer simultaneous

translation he needed hours and hours of translation instantly into a second language to build a prototype, and vice versa. Someone suggested the canadian parliament had translation going back decades of that type. It may have been free. Mercer used it. Made him wealthy. Now if only if we canadians could take it all back. Maybe he violated a no commercial use clause or something?

[Brother Mythos]

6. The only surprise here is that the WSJ made it public.

They probably did so because Rupert Murdoch is jealous.

[StClone]

10. Billionaire Vanities, endanger us "lessers"

"We are not going to play by their rules anymore," to paraphrase Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. The Mercers' toxic wealth is going to apply the same mindset to social media that Trump Humper did to Covid. No holds barred, free-for-all death match and we will likely see the negative effects of the unrestrained insanity. Wonder if there could be liability issues if the site goes really off the rails.

[thucythucy]

11. Add this to the reasons why we need a wailing huge inheritance tax.

The accumulation of this much money by one family is a threat to every other family on the planet.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

24. This is the truth

Tax the living shit out of the wealthy.

[muntrv]

14. Look who need their safe spaces!

[UTUSN]

15. K&R

[pecosbob]

21. Anonymous...are you listening?

[andym]

25. The internet has created a new kind of Roman mob

and there are so many wannabee Marcus Antonius's (Mark Antonys) ready to exploit the mob for power and money.

[Xolodno]

26. Makes you wonder, how many shell companies they have...

...hiding profits, losses, etc.

I know I could easily work with that, I just don't have that kind of generational wealth.