Riot plan said to be mostly on tech giant apps and not Parler

 Post Millennial:

"Of the first 13 people arrested by the FBI in connection with the event at the Capitol, a total of zero were active users of Parler. The overwhelming amount of planning for that event, the overwhelming amount of advocacy for people to go there and to breach the Capitol was done on Facebook, and on YouTube, and on Twitter," Greenwald asserted.

"This is one of the ironies is that Google is one of the monopolies that wants to police our discourse and control our thinking and rule our politics that kicked Parler off of its app at the exactly the time that Parler had gone to number one," he continued.

"Google said, we will not allow you on our service," Greenwald said, when "the reality is the service that Google owns, YouTube, played a much greater role."

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Greenwald noted in his article that "liberals celebrated this use of Silicon Valley monopoly power to shut down Parler, just as they overwhelmingly cheered the prior two extraordinary assertions of tech power to control US political discourse: censorship of The New York Post’s reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, and the banning of the US President from major platforms."

"Not only did leading left-wing politicians not object but some of them were the ones who pleaded with Silicon Valley to use their power this way," Greenwald wrote, pointing specifically to Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He also pointed to journalist Michelle Goldberg, who expressed concern over the power of big tech companies but lauded their actions anyway.

"That is because the dominant strain of American liberalism is not economic socialism but political authoritarianism," Greenwald said, and "they are now calling for the use of the most repressive War on Terror measures against their domestic opponents."

Greenwald also criticized Twitter's actions during the 2020 election, calling their suppression of the bombshell New York Post's Hunter Biden story "one of the most alarming events to ever take place in American politics in the last decade."

He further slammed Twitter for posting a tweet criticizing the Ugandan government's censorship of social media in the lead-up to an election, asserting that Twitter is at the forefront of censorship and lacks the moral authority to complain about it.
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This looks more like a tech media coup attempt to silence the President.  While Parler as alleged among other things antitrust issues against the tech giants, the DOJ should also be investigating their actions and appointing a special prosecutor to do so because these actions look like they were in support of Biden. 

Greenwald has more on the tech giants and Parler here.  The more I look at what happened in the last year the more it looks like Big Tech decided to put its thumb on the scales to not only hurt Trump's ability to communicate directly with voters but also to protect Biden from allegations of corruption.