Google suspends Parler from app store after deadly Capitol violence

Axios ^ | 1-08-2021 | Shawna Chen

[Anti-Bubba182]

Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company's role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.........

[The Duke]

Here’s the article I read:

https://fractionalciso.com/whatsapp-vs-signal-vs-telegram-security-in-2020/

[familyop]

Thanks for the link! I’ll read it.

[crager]

It’s not only this type of censoring that is going on right now but they are full on targeting people who attended the rally and they are being threatened and are being fired from their jobs and getting threatening calls etc.

[Fresh Wind]

2 generalized questions:

For someone who wants to read but not post, is there really any advantage to using the Parler app? Twitter continually bugs me to use their app, and I refuse.

As it stands right now, it appears that I can read via a web browser (which didn’t used to be the case). Since I don’t want to post, is there any advantage/downside to registering with Parler?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

AXIOS - very close to AXIS fascism. Living up to its name.

[rlmorel]

Thank you, familyop. I will check that link out tonight.

[Future Useless Eater]

It may turn out that even after Google and Apple both ban Parler from their app stores, someone might still be able to "download" it.

"E" on Parler, showed how to do exactly that for GAB, even though big tech locked out GAB.
https://parler.com/post/cf70358ed9034cfd9dd8ce05d00dc9c6

Here's another good item...

General Flynn is quoting Truman about the 1st amendment...
https://parler.com/post/ffc4b519c4d549758bb838b5403c5754

[Eleutheria5]

What deadly? They incited a capital policeman to shoot? It was a mostly pieceful antifa false flag.

[newberger]

There’s no porn on Parler. That’s BS!

It took me less than one minute to find it.

[mbj]

+1

Speculating: I wonder if Parler may be experiencing DDOS attacks by left-wing activists, in addition to heavy traffic.

[EBH]

The past 24 hours:
- Twitter permanently suspends President Trump
- Twitter suspends “POTUS” government twitter account
- Amazon employees call for company to stop hosting Parler through AWS
- Google removes Parler from Google Play, Apple considers following suit
- YouTube Bans Steve Bannon
- CEO of Mozilla says we need more than deflatforming

And the left is just getting started.

[mbj]

Why was there a pause in counting in all of the battle ground states? I believe it was because they were determining how much they needed to cheat, in an attempt to avoid being caught as they WERE indeed caught switching the votes in one heavily Republican precinct.

I believe there is a strong likelihood that even if we get out even more of the vote, they will once again simply calculate how many votes need to be switched and do it.

[familyop]

"I believe there is a strong likelihood that even if we get out even more of the vote, they will once again simply calculate how many votes need to be switched and do it."

Not if we get more young conservatives to take jobs as poll workers in those few bad neighborhoods. What is freedom worth?

[familyop]

There’s another way that we failed. NPR (leftist National Public Radio) was recruiting young leftists for jobs as poll workers months before the election and probably earlier. We should have been doing the same.

We need to get young, conservative people into jobs as poll workers in those few bad neighborhoods where the most fraud was committed. They also need to be trained to see and collect evidence of fraud. And they need to be trained to be like chameleons; indistinguishable from social lefties (actors emulating sexual confusion, counterculture, etc.).

[Ezekiel]

Man this is getting real. Biden not even in the driver seat and just look at how quickly all dissent is being shutdown.

Strange reaction for a winning team. Gee with all of those "voters" supporting them, why the freak-out?

They are acting more like a sleeping giant just woke up and is filled with a terrible resolve. Ooops.

[Swarthy Greek Immigrant]

The new corporate authoritarian liberal-left monoculture is going to be absolutely ruthless — and in 12 days it is merging with the state. This only the beginning.

[rlmorel]

Thank you for your considerate and constructive discourse, not just right now, but in all the time we have talked on this forum for years.

Regarding how we have failed at being citizen-stewards for our Republic-yes, you are correct. We have made a huge number of mistakes in this respect.

Conservatives have a weakness-we assume that logic and truth will prevail, and showing the logic and truth of something to anyone (especially young people) will easily win them over.

And we have consistently underestimated the evil of the Left, who not only have no problem putting evil people in positions of power where they can indoctrinate young children, they STRIVE to do so.

We have surrendered education to them, and they grasped it with both hands to abuse it at the expense of this great nation.

We have surrendered the media to them, and they seized it with malignant hostile intent to undermine and bring down this Republic.

We have given them free reign with culture, books, movies, sports, celebrities, and they have used it as a cudgel against our country and us, and in this case, are winding up to silence us, pursue us, punish us, slander us, and delegitimize us.

They gleefully and with great understanding and relish use our inherent goodness and disinclination to abuse institutions or disobey laws as weapons against us, knowing that when we have power, we will not wield it against them maliciously as unashamedly do when they weild power. They view this as folly on our part, as our loss, and their gain, and think it is a great joke. In this particular aspect, their contempt for conservatives and the law-abiding DNA that makes us up, is boundless.

I am not posting much right now, not out of fear, but because I am so wounded by the knowledge that this election was bought and paid for by mortal enemies of our country, and nearly the entire government including those we thought would fight on behalf of the Constitution (and us) are in on this as well.

Our votes are meaningless. This is meaningful to conservatives, but to anyone who sides with the Left it does not as long as the gravy train rolls on.

I don’t know how I can ever legitimize this farce called American Election Day ever again by participating in it again, never mind voting for a filthy Republican. I must find a way, but right now...I cannot envision it.

I only see two ways out of this: Bloodshed to regain a free country, or a long, dark, Tyranny.

It isn’t going to happen by campaigning, donating, or political action. I say that because politically, it has been shown that there is no United States of America anymore where your right as a citizen is cemented by your agreement to be lawfully governed by those who you vote for. We have no say in the governing process.

That compact between millions of Americans, the agreement as citizens to be governed as long as we participate in a fair process to determine who governs us under the laws of The Constitution, has been irreparably and irrevocably broken.

This is not America. On January 20, 2021, I will take down my American Flag. Out of respect for the country it once represented and my father who was buried under it, I will not fly it at half mast, I will not fly it upside down, but...I will not legitimize it by flying it.

The pain I feel at this destruction of our Country is profound for me. I must find a way to navigate through this, and I think I will, but right now, I am in such anguish at what transpired on November 3, 2020 and ever single day thereafter, that I cannot face it right now.

I will, but right now-I cannot. I haven’t given up, but I am grievously wounded as an American and I have to find a way to move forward.

[familyop]

"I only see two ways out of this: Bloodshed to regain a free country, or a long, dark, Tyranny."

It's a product of more than two generations of bad policies in regards to families (including white families), drug abuse and bad employment policies. We're seeing the beginnings of the consequences of those policies now. Some of us tried to warn everyone about the consequences ahead, but more comfortable people didn't want to listen. They continued to slander us instead.

Children need fathers, too.

[Svartalfiar]

I’ve always accessed my social media through internet browsers.

I don't really do any social sites, but even messenger sites I only do through the browser. My office starting using Slack a year or two ago, and I was the only one not on it because I don't download phone apps hardly at all, and Slack refuses to load my browser because I wasn't using one of the few ones it 'requires'. (Doesn't like Pale Moon, think it said you HAD to use Chrome or IE or a couple others.)

[mbj]

IF the system operates as I’m guessing, it doesn’t matter who the poll workers are because it can be remotely controlled. How else could Eric Coomer say HE made sure that Trump wouldn’t win again? He wouldn’t rely just on poll workers; although the Georgia video is compelling, it might not be the only way. I think the system can be directed to flip votes from one candidate to the other...either pre-configured via an algorithm, or remotely.