{"id":1632388,"date":"2022-09-04T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632388"},"modified":"2022-09-04T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:03:28","slug":"parler-available-again-on-google-play-store-truth-social-continues-to-be-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-available-again-on-google-play-store-truth-social-continues-to-be-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Parler Available Again on Google Play Store, Truth Social Continues to Be Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparler-available-again-on-google-play-store-truth-social-continues-to-be-blocked%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Google has made social media platform Parler available for download through its Play Store, more than a year and half after it had removed the app.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2018, Parler quickly became a sought-after social media platform for conservatives as it promised to protect free speech rights and not engage in unwanted censorship. However, following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, major app stores removed Parler from their offerings, accusing the company of failing to moderate content that they claimed may have played a role in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Parler has been trying to get back on Google\u2019s app store. And now after around 18 months, Google has made the app available for download through its Play Store starting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Parler is said to have taken measures to strengthen content moderation, which includes actively monitoring for speech deemed violent and allowing users to report and block other users.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/09\/02\/google-parler-app-play-store\">statement<\/a> to Axios, a Google spokesperson said that all apps available via Google Play that feature User Generated Content (UGC) have to implement \u201crobust moderation practices\u201d and take action against UGC \u201cwhere appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parler has welcomed the decision. \u201cWhile away from Google Play, we have worked diligently to build a more feature-rich and dynamic user experience,\u201d Parler Chief Technology Officer Sam Lipoff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parler_app\/status\/1565778228920320001\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is a perfect time to join Parler and rediscover the non-partisan platform where we enable people to speak freely!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Parler returns, former President Donald Trump\u2019s social media network Truth Social is still awaiting approval to make its app available on the store.<\/p>\n<p>Google has so far refused to approve the Truth Social App. In an Aug. 30 statement, the tech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/google-faces-criticism-for-not-making-trumps-truth-social-app-available_4700947.html\">said<\/a> that Truth Social has committed \u201cseveral violations\u201d of standards policies in their app submission and suggested that the app\u2019s moderation of UGC was lacking.<\/p>\n<p>In an Aug. 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.tmtgcorp.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/\">statement<\/a>, TMTG, which owns Truth Social, pointed out that some of their competitors\u2019 apps are allowed on the Play Store despite such apps \u201crampantly violating\u201d Google\u2019s prohibition on sexual content and other policies.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Google\u2019s Developer Policy Center makes it clear that the company will not allow apps that \u201cfacilitate the sale\u201d of marijuana or marijuana products irrespective of legality. Yet a review of apps by the Daily Caller News Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/01\/google-trump-truth-social-developer-policy\/\">found<\/a> multiple apps selling marijuana are accessible on the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) criticized the tech giant for not approving Truth Social. \u201cGoogle is once again targeting and silencing conservative voices, this time by banning President Trump\u2019s Truth Social from their Google Play store,\u201d she said in an Aug. 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteMarsha\/status\/1564701671741071360\">post<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter. \u201cThis is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-naveen-athrappully\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has made social media platform Parler available for download through its Play Store, more than a year and half after it had removed the app.Launched in 2018, Parler quickly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}