Wrongthink.

Consider a future in which any expressed thought deviating from the official Party line is punished without recourse under the law.

Consider a future ruled by private enforcers who relentlessly promote approved dissent and ruthlessly crush disapproved dissent.

Consider a future in which those holding or expressing opinions contrary to established dogma aren’t simply wrong; they are heretics who must be made to die—socially, financially, and, if necessary, literally.

Consider a future in which the collective discourse of millions of people can be instantly silenced, and the collected discourse of millions of people can be instantly erased. With the flip of a switch. Millions upon millions of ideas, thoughts, opinions, rants, articulations—annihilated, nuked from the cloud by supra-governmental corporations with unforeseen, unimaginable, uncheckable power.

This is the American future. And the future is now.

On January 10, 2021 at 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time, technologies that promised to set us all free, conspired instead to extinguish the very ideals of freedom of speech and freedom of association. Thought had become thoughtcrime and in that moment, via tactical strike, the totality of the social media platform Parler was effectively erased from existence.

This site does not exist to be a defense of Parler. To all the neo-McCarthyites who demand ideological purity of those they read, let this serve as our official confession: We are not now nor have we ever been a member of the Parlerist Party of the United States. We have never interacted with Parler or viewed its content. We have no need to. The extent to which we may agree or disagree with the sentiments found on the platform is irrelevant. We don’t sit in judgment of ideas before granting them the right to existence.

This site exists to popularize “Remember Parler” as a rallying cry against the suppression by bloodless technocrats of unpopular ideas. Against the use of unelected power in the service of the elected. Against any attempt to control thought.

Make no mistake: the violence and lawlessness at the Capitol on January 6 was reprehensible. What Apple, Google, and Amazon did in response—to a direct competitor of their tech comrades, Facebook and Twitter—was infinitely worse in its implications. The people who called for violence to be done did so on all social platforms. Parler itself committed no crime, except to create a platform committed to the open expression of ideas—good, bad, and ugly. To hold Parler, under penalty of extermination, to a double-standard of content mediation, exposes the Big Tech monopolies for what they are: partisan, political actors, who can—through collusion, extortion, and corporate shaming—silence any opponents of the ideology they themselves prefer and promote, while remaining blissfully unconstrained by any First Amendment considerations.

In other words, don’t say what we don’t want to hear. Or, we zip-tie your hands behind your back, wrap your head in duct tape, and throw you in the river. While the cops parked across the street yawn because we’re outside of their jurisdiction.

The future is now.

When the practical exercise of constitutionally protected freedoms exists at the behest of the unelected, no one is safe. If you delight in the destruction of those silenced, you are complicit in your own.

Even if Parler should someday be resurrected, their targeted assassination must never be forgotten. They are merely the first domino to fall—unless everyone across the political spectrum unites to ensure they are also the last.

Remember that unpopular speech is the only speech that requires protection.

Remember that you’re next.

#rememberParler