Strategic Investor Wernick Chides Internet Publishers for Anti-Liberty Bias on Crucial Constitutional Issue
Las Vegas, Nevada – Parler joins those cheering yesterday’s federal court ruling in County of Butler v. Wolf, in which Judge William S. Stickman IV, in the words of The Volokh Conspiracy’s Eugene Volokh, “broadly struck down” as unconstitutional, Pennsylvania’s shutdown orders—including the state’s limits on nonreligious gatherings (“25 persons for indoor gatherings and 250 persons for outdoor gatherings”). Judge Stickman wrote, in part:
There is no question that this Country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort. But the solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty that stands as the foundation of the American experiment. The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a "new normal" where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures.
“Parler is proud to stand firmly on the side of the people with respect to this important issue impacting Americans’ freedom of assembly,” said Parler strategic investor Jeffrey Wernick, “While Facebook and others acted, in typical technoauthoritarian fashion, to prevent people from organizing protests against these shutdowns that have now been deemed unconstitutional, Parler allowed its users to communicate with each other freely, so that they could organize peaceful demonstrations against policies they found unjust. At Parler, we consider freedom of assembly to be not just some arcane Constitutional doctrine—it’s a core animating business policy.
“Our Constitution and Bill of Rights embody the principle that the only legitimate role of government is the preservation of individual rights. It is heartening to see Judge Stickman affirm this principle with respect to Pennsylvania’s unjust shutdown orders. Facebook, Twitter, and others, judging by their content curation policies, reject this principle. They apparently hold that authority over American lives properly resides in centralized agents. Parler believes all authority over individual human lives resides in the individual—with the people. Anyone who wants to participate in intellectual activism, without worrying about whether their positions contradict the technoauthoritarian publishers’ biased narratives, is invited to Twexit, Erasebook and join Parler.”
Parler was founded in 2018 and has over 3.8 million users. The platform is committed to free speech, does not mine or sell user data and does not censor content based on politics or ideology. Parler continues to stand with the People and against Technoauthoritarianism.
###
