Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service
by Nihal Krishan, Economic Policy Reporter | | January 11, 2021 07:55 PM
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A handful of Big Tech companies moved to take down social media platform Parler over the weekend, but it appears to have found a new company to help try to keep its website running.
On Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet webhosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik.
Epik put out a statement on Monday claiming it had no discussion of providing future services to Parler. Epik did acknowledge, however, that Parler was “working on satisfying the requested terms placed upon them.”
Epik also defended Parler and said that it was being unfairly treated in comparison to its larger competitors Twitter and Facebook, which create an “undeniable double standard” when it comes to their policing and enforcement of content.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/parler-finds-refuge-with-right-leaning-webhosting-service
Rumble sues Google for anti-trust violations
YouTube rival Rumble Inc. filed a complaint on Monday against Google parent Alphabet Inc. alleging that Google has violated antitrust laws by “unfairly rigging” its search algorithms.
Ari Hoffman Seattle, WA January 12, 2021 4:23 AM
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YouTube rival Rumble Inc. filed a complaint on Monday against Google parent Alphabet Inc. alleging that Google has violated antitrust laws by “unfairly rigging” its search algorithms and mobile operating system to drive traffic away from YouTube’s competitors. This is the latest allegation of anticompetitive conduct against the tech giant.
Toronto based company Rumble brought in the US District Court of the Northern District of California’s San Jose Division. The video hosting platform, popular among conservative social media users as an alternative to YouTube, stated in a 38-page complaint that, “By unfairly rigging its search algorithms such that YouTube is the first-listed links ‘above the fold’ on its search results page, Google, through its search engine, was able to wrongfully divert massive traffic to YouTube, depriving Rumble of the additional traffic, users, uploads, brand awareness and revenue it would have otherwise received.”
The lawsuit argues that Google’s agreements with cell phone manufacturers to pre-install the YouTube app on mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system have unfairly deprived Rumble of viewers.
The suit cites data analytics for views of Rumble’s original content on YouTube. Rumble alleged that the company lost a “huge amount of revenue on 9.3 billion views that Google wrongfully directed to YouTube with its unfair YouTube-preferencing algorithms.”
While Rumble has exclusive rights to original content videos, the platform claims that Google’s “unlawful anti-competitive conduct” has forced the Toronto-based company to syndicate its videos to YouTube in order to survive.
Rumble told Fox News that “If even a portion of those 9.3 billion views had occurred on Rumble’s website instead of YouTube, that would have generated well in excess of 100 million additional video uploads to the Rumble platform, which in turn would have generated billions of more views on the Rumble platform, and massive amounts of additional revenue for Rumble and its content creators.”
Google spokesman José Castañeda told Fox Business in a statement. “We will defend ourselves against these baseless claims.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/rumble-sues-google-for-anti-trust-violations
Where did the term big Tech come from? All of a sudden we are using it. Did Trump come up with that as well as fake news?