Parler is back

Parler is a Twitter option that promises not to censor legal speech for political reasons, as other social media companies are doing.

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.

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.

Is anybody else having problems accessing Parler today? I only use my MacBook Air to access the site...no cell phone. I was able to sign into Parler yesterday, and the site was working. My profile had even come back up. I went to bed after 3 a.m. this morning, and have been trying to access the site without luck. I searched to see if it was up, and it is, but I can't access it using Safari or Firefox, with both regular browser pages, and private browsing pages. I cleared the cookies in my Safari preferences to see if that would help, but it hasn't.

All I get on Safari is a white page. No matter how many times I reload it, it's still white. If I use a Safari private page, the sign-in page shows up, I fill in my ID and password, fill in the Captcha, and then it goes to a white page.

On Firefox, with both regular and private browsing page, I get the log-in page, but after filling in my ID and password, and click on "continue," it takes a while for the Captcha to show up. After I fill that in, and click the button, it just sits there as if its loading, but nothing happens. It never connects. I also tried signing in using my VPN and got the same results on both Safari and Firefox.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this same issue. Thanks.

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