Posted on 02/15/2021 10:05:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
The following is a news analysis.
Parler is a Twitter option that promises not to censor legal speech for political reasons, as other social media companies are doing.
As such, it has been a target of coordinated attacks.
For example, propagandists in media have tried to link Parler to the Capitol attacks, even though both left wing and right wing activists involved communicated widely on Facebook and Twitter.
The Wikipedia description entered by agenda editors and propagandists borders on the ridiculous:
There are also efforts to link Parler to "The Russians!" even though it was Facebook that the Russians used, according to analysts, to try to sway the 2016 election.
Defenders of Parler say they expect the attacks to continue, particularly because the platform welcomes free speech that supports Donald Trump and opines about possible election fraud.
It also welcomes speech that opposes Trump and denies election fraud.
It's sort of like being in America, again.
My professional account on Facebook is also down throttled. I only have about 55,000 followers after many years, but originally a post would still easily get 10,000 views. Today, many of my posts sit idle with the metric of "0" people seeing it.
In contrast, Parler doesn't manipulate follower numbers or reach. And it's easy to see what happens on an unrestricted platform like that.
In just a few weeks, I amassed over 1 million followers on Parler, compared to the under 300,000 on Twitter in 15 years.
The exact same post that gets a few thousand views on Twitter gets 100,000 views on Parler.
Find me on Parler today.
https://parler.com/profile/SharylAttkisson/posts
I'm also on Gab.
https://gab.com/SharylAttkisson
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
It is amazing. Informative about how much manipulation and control is going on behind the scenes as well as upfront with Twitter and FB.
Me too - thank u
Watch Sharyl host "Full Measure," a Sunday morning talk show on the Sinclair network. More info.
Her newest book Slanted is available now along with her book Smear which has a Five Star rating.
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both of your links takes me to a 404 not found page
Does the old app work? Or, is there a new one?
It takes me to the log in page, but when I enter the information, the site just crashes. Tried “Account Recovery” and nothing. Tried my iPhone app and nothing happens there either.
UPDATE: Just tried logging in on the iPhone and it worked. Don’t know how long it will be up, but it’s working for now.
Well preserved for 60 years old.
Well it works now, but it did not work earlier. Probably some change that took a while to propagate to all locations.
My wife uses the parler (/s) to watch TV and entertain company...
It's operating most of the time, with no monitoring or censorship...
As for gab... When she is on the phone with one of her friends or family it is gab, gab, gab, gab, gab.....
They worked at the time I posted them - it did take 2 tries on the site link (not Sharyl’s). I think they’re being swamped with people jumping on. Parler was definitely up when I checked/posted.
No idea - I just use my PC.
Just tried again - both links worked.
bttt
Why would it be up for some people but not others(including me).
Agree. It’s not back. Keeps giving me a password error though I am following the rules. IT IS NOT BACK!
Well, it is up, I get the logo, and the main page to come up - but it times out as people are flocking back to it.
I wonder what the usage reports look like for the caching servers (that’s what Akamai does) and any load balancers in front of them. I imagine Zayo is also having a crisis of bandwidth.
The 404 error went away. but it is still useless. None of the user pages that I have saved have any posts on them.
SNAFU.
Give it time....
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