Posted on 01/10/2021 6:36:53 AM PST by EyesOfTX
In a somewhat unbelievable turn of events, it was revealed last night that the folks at Parler were using Amazon of all companies as the provider for their web hosting services. I honestly am having an incredibly difficult time wrapping my mind around that fact.
That reality came back to haunt Parler’s management on Saturday when Amazon very predictably notified them that their social media endeavor will be de-platformed as of midnight tonight:
Now, from my own recent experience, I can assure you that Parler will not be able to move its extremely complex operation to a new hosting provider in a single day, so Amazon’s anti-trust action will cause Parler’s service to become temporarily unavailable. That might last only a few days, but it will be quite damaging to Parler’s business. Again, it is really rather amazing that Parler left itself at the mercy of Jeff Bezos and his company’s whims and evil intent.
In an email sent to its users this morning, management at Parler’s competitor, Gab, addressed the current brutal monopolistic behavior by these Big Tech oligarchs:
If your business is built on the backs of Silicon Valley tyrants (Apple, Google, et al) they can and will attempt to destroy you if and when you become a threat to their interests.
They did this to Gab. Then Fortnite. Now Parler.
Terrible content of all kinds is available on Twitter and Facebook.
Everyone on the planet knows this fact.
Yet both companies are on both App Stores.
Apple banning Parler is not the neutral implementation of some objective standard, but rather a cynical, politically motivated gesture and evidence of Silicon Valley elites’ disdain for ordinary Americans.
The solution, as always, is not government.
It is to build your own.
People mock this meme, but Gab lives it.
While others whine, we build.
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No doubt many are growing weary of reading this here, but all of this could have been headed off had President Trump and the Republicans in congress focused their efforts over the past four years to getting rid of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which serves effectively as an anti-trust exemption for these Big Tech oligarchs, and enables them to basically do as they please. With Democrats about to be in control of both houses of congress and the presidency, we can be sure that nothing will be done to rein in the abuse for at least the next four years.
If Donald Trump decides to go the route of forming a third political party around this army of 75 million voters when he returns to private life, it should be formed around the founding principle of ridding our nation of these Big Tech monopolies. The GOP has already conclusively proven that it has no ability to or intention of protecting the free speech rights of U.S. citizens.
That is all.
A lot of freepers love the big tech idea of “freedom”. Sad.
Did someone rush here and mock you after your “own recent experience”, jackass? Maybe add me to your ping list so i don’t miss your next deplatforming so i can dash off some stream-of-semiconciousness mush and LOL at you...
Maybe short wave will make a comeback.
I knew they would step up the reprisals against Trump. It looks like they are very skilled at destroying any platform that DARES practice free speech.
We have lost the country.
Great! I figure that cancelling Prime is the best way to hit them where it hurts. Even if you have an Amazon account, you don’t have to buy anything. If you have Prime they get an annual payment or like me, a monthly payment. That payment is a sure thing. Buying things is not.
The first step is to deplatform the platforms.
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Sure and how do you propose that be done? This is the most serious case of attempting to lock the barndoors after the horses have fled of our lifetime. There have been many (here on FR and elsewhere) who recognized and warned that everything that we were doing was built on an infrastructure that was totally in the hands of thugs like Dorsey, Zuckerberg et al..... but in the end, did nothing about it. For them, life carried on using the full range of google products, fascistbook accounts, twatter and bought their i phones and took the amazon deliveries etc. and did so in a way that they became as dependent on that infrastructure just as much as being dependent on the flow of electricity when a light switch is turned on.
Well, here we are.... It’s like going to battle with your military depending on all kinds of the highest tech electronic gizmos that were all made my the enemy who has a wide open back door into it. The entire premise is preposterous but that is the vulnerable situation we all find ourselves in now.
May I suggest that everyone take heed of Christ’s words which I admittedly take slightly out of context but the implications are exactly the same....from Matthew 7..
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
If this isn’t a coordinated effort to destroy a company/competitor I don’t know what is.
The RICO act comes to mind, but the commie bastards about to take over will NEVER allow any conversation.
If they think that little stunt of breaching the capitol was bad, they haven’t seen anything. It will look like a walk in the park.
And now Apple is threatening to ban the emergency alert system. All of these criminals are unmasking themselves. This is what Trump wants. You have to let the criminal commit the crime. Let the traitor commit treason. Trump is not about to let Biden be inaugurated. He won’t do it because he’s a patriot pledged to drain the swamp. But if for no other reason Trump’s life won’t be worth 3 cents once he leaves office. The cabal cannot afford to let him go. He would have to take his whole family and flee the country.
I really like Dave Blackmon but he doesn’t get the big picture. Donald Trump is not planning to leave office. Think of what he would face as a private citizen. He’d be dead in a few months. He totally knows this. I believe that Trump knew in 2015 when he agreed to run that this was going to be a winner take all gambit.
From now on I buy locally.Amazon be damned.
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