>>>>I see. One of the people who has enough knowledge and could make changes is Rick Hodgen. Too bad he left this forum because he was unfairly accused. Other than him and Chen, not too many people have the knowledge and the motivation to deal with VFP. But, I agree, having the code in open source won't hurt.
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>>>No discussion on his programming knowledge.
>>>OTOH even before QANON and a seemingly sizeable section of US citizens seem to put belief over trying to think rational on election results I was not only weary of Islamist fundamentalists but those fount in Western hemisphere as well. While Rick never uttered anyting violent, his thinking in my eyes short circuited i some areas and since his attempt to sick MS lawyers onto Chen I (still) think his absence will balance the loss of technical skill - snitching to eliminate competition to his failing effort IMO is not something I condone, even if part of motivation might have been not fully conscious or reflected.
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>>And, FWIW, I think the events of January 6 made my point about Parler being the home of racists and neo-Nazis.
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>>Tamar
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>You forgot to mention “anti-immigrant”. Isn’t it what the Democratic Party talking points are: generalize and accuse everyone with whom you politically disagree as being “racist, neo-Nazi, anti-immigrant”?!
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>As far as I know (I am not in the social media but I know people who are), Parler has immigrants, blacks, and independents. Are they all racist, neo-Nazi, anti-immigrant?

You missed my point. Parler positioned itself to be a home for people who espouse racist and neo-Nazi views. Choosing to be there is choosing to be exposed to those views and to provide support for those views.

I'm happy to disagree with people over things like whether taxes should be higher or lower, or whether school vouchers are good or bad. I'm not interesting in finding common ground with people who think 6 million weren't enough (as the shirt one of the rioters wore indicated) and thus, want me dead. I have no tolerance for Nazis of any sort. (As you may know, my grandparents were murdered on arrival at Auschwitz.)

The philosopher Karl Popper put it best in discussing the paradox of tolerance:

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

Tamar