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BREAKING: Parler CEO Responds to Amazon Hosting Ban — Says It’s a ‘Coordinated Attack By Tech Giants to Kill Competition’
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 1-912021 | Cassandra Fairbanks

Posted on 01/09/2021 9:05:33 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables

Parler CEO John Matze has responded to Amazon kicking the platform off their hosting services, calling it a “coordinated attack.” On Saturday, Amazon kicked Parler off their webhosting service, meaning the platform will be offline until they find a new host.

The ban goes into effect on Sunday, effectively shutting down the platform that conservatives have flocked to since the big tech giants began banning conservatives.

In a post on Parler, Matze wrote that “Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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To: Salamander

Windows 3.1 and I hated the handshake noise too


81 posted on 01/09/2021 10:28:20 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at )
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To: markman46

LOL

*Somewhere* around here, I think I still still have the 5000 floppies for that.

Just the other day, I ran across a Win95 disk.

I *think* it came with an old Panasonic Toughbook I picked up...or maybe my first Compaq desktop.

I forget.

;)


82 posted on 01/09/2021 10:32:45 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: central_va
Once The Perverted One starts his admin and the zeal against Trump subsides and the world goes to shit, the left riots begin in earnest, Jill will not be able to handle the pressure. We are at peak Trump hysteria right now.

Now here, I completely disagree. Well, kinda. Yes, we are at Peak Trump Hysteria now.

However, expect the following:

  1. The left will try to hobble the remaining days of the Trump Presidency so he will be too distracted to push through any declassify-and-release moves.

  2. When he leaves office, there will be a very intense effort to bankrupt, prosecute, and jail every Trump family member, starting with The Donald. This will be to remind any other would-be outsiders and any conservatives that the communists and globalists are now in power, and will brook no resistance.

  3. The first amendment will be shut down for us, in the manners we have outlined above.

  4. The second amendment will be weakened to the point of meaninglessness, by calling ANY semiauto -- pistol, rifle, or shotgun -- an 'assault weapon' that will fall under the NFA act. Then ALL pistols. "Sniper" rifles. You name it. Anyone who objects or refuses to comply will be labeled a 'domestic terrorist'.

  5. The economy will rapidly wind down as the government seizes many forms of wealth, such as 401k's. White people's wealth, in particular, will be plundered.

  6. While the anti-Trump hysteria will die down, it will be replaced by the demonization of people like us, with equal furor.

  7. After that my crystal ball grows hazy, but, remember: You are in 1937 Germany and your last name is Feinberg.

83 posted on 01/09/2021 10:33:06 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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To: central_va

Oh, and as far as Pardons? Forget it. The left will hand-wave and ignore them.


84 posted on 01/09/2021 10:34:42 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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To: Lazamataz

No, I think they will leave Trump alone. Once Trump is out of office they will be on a legislative bender and don’t want to divert attention.


85 posted on 01/09/2021 10:37:58 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: markman46

My first ISP was Prodigy and I had also a WebTV, which I *loved*, so laugh if you want.
[we were firewalled from the Normal Internet Groups so as to spare the rest of the world our collective insanity...but I found a way out]

I have this horrible feeling that there are still Tripod sites I made, floating around out there in the aether.

I remember them saying there were “thousands” of websites online.

I made plans to read them all, from start to finish.

Boy, did that ever escalate.

/not done, yet

:D


86 posted on 01/09/2021 10:38:23 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: Salamander
There’s a billion other webhosts who don’t give a crap as long as you pay your bill.

There aren't many other cloud providers with the kind of scale that AWS has - MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform. Those companies are just as woke as Amazon and just as likely to shut down Parler if they tried to switch.
87 posted on 01/09/2021 10:41:52 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: central_va

The legislative folk will INDEED be preoccupied with that.

However, they will simply mention to the “law”-enforcement folk that they want Trump and his family’s heads on pikes.

The LE people will comply.


88 posted on 01/09/2021 10:43:41 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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To: Lazamataz

I don’t think so. Not enough political capital be gained.


89 posted on 01/09/2021 10:44:44 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
I don’t think so. Not enough political capital be gained.

You underestimate the value, in political capital, of 'making an example' and warning millions of people off any similar resistance, all at once.

Hell, to my mind, it's a damned good deal for them. Crucify one family and scare millions upon millions into submission.

90 posted on 01/09/2021 10:47:58 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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To: Salamander

I lost my win 3.1 desktop 20 yrs ago
I got 95/98 disks someplace, and bayberry a modem around too might come in handy. :-)


91 posted on 01/09/2021 10:50:08 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at )
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

It all boils down to backbones.

[and I really don’t want to learn Morse code]


92 posted on 01/09/2021 10:53:25 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

It has nothing to do with “competition.” Taken in total with everything else going on, it is a well-coordinated attack on anything they believe to be conservative speech. There are more nefarious implications as well, but competition is not what this is about.


93 posted on 01/09/2021 10:55:05 PM PST by tballard56
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To: markman46

Buried somewhere in the now unused upstairs bedroom, is an archaeological dig of outdated tech.

:D


94 posted on 01/09/2021 10:55:11 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: Lazamataz
The only BBS name I remember is 1SG’s Canteen. But I was prolific all over upstate NY.

Eminence Front from here in the Shitcagoland area was mine. For some time I was the largest due to the number of dial-up lines I had coming in and having the fastest (at the time) modems while others had fewer lines but more storage for Usenet, Echolink, Fidonet, etc.. Good times.

95 posted on 01/09/2021 10:58:20 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: central_va; Lazamataz
No, I think they will leave Trump alone. Once Trump is out of office they will be on a legislative bender and don’t want to divert attention.

Disagree. They think they have to destroy him completely so he cannot come back in 2024.

This ain't over. Not by a longshot.

Let's mark this post and see who's right in 4 years.

96 posted on 01/09/2021 11:00:08 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Salamander

I had compuserve and a prodigy account, and later a local Minnesota isp. Moved to California in 1998 and signed up for at-home, have a back up isp just in case ;-)


97 posted on 01/09/2021 11:01:29 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at )
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To: usconservative
Disagree. They think they have to destroy him completely so he cannot come back in 2024.

Thats the smaller of the reasons.

The primary reason is to terrorize us all. Make us live in fear.

They don't know us very well, do they?

98 posted on 01/09/2021 11:02:32 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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To: Salamander

As an aside I have a set of warpserver for e-business cds around


99 posted on 01/09/2021 11:02:56 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at )
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To: usconservative
Let's mark this post and see who's right in 4 years.

You misspelled '12 months'.

100 posted on 01/09/2021 11:03:16 PM PST by Lazamataz (America is a carcass, to be plundered.)
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