Column: Looking for right-wingers banned from Twitter? Check out Parler. Or better yet, don't

Do you miss the racists rants of David Duke? The white nationalist blather of the Proud Boys?Are you dying to hear the alt-right wit and wisdom of Steve Bannon?Have I got a social media website for you!Parler is fast becoming the online equivalent of a Trump rally, minus the COVID-19. It has become a home to the digitally homeless — those who have been kicked off Twitter for violating its rules against hate speech.The site, whose user base exploded after President Trump lost to Joe Biden, says it now has more than 10 million accounts. That’s peanuts compared with social media giants Twitter and Facebook, of course, but significant, particularly since right-wing heavyweights are promoting it as a censorship-free alternative to the others.“People from all walks of life, fed up with opaque, biased content curation, inconsistent agenda-driven fact checking, and manipulative algorithms built on data mining, are joining Parler to speak free,” wrote its founder John Matze in a letter to users this month.How nice for Trump and his wackiest supporters to now have their own cesspool to muck about in. They can’t trust Fox News anymore, with its annoying tendency to call elections fairly. Without fear of having warning…
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