Posted on 01/09/2021 6:26:58 PM PST by janetjanet998
Edited on 01/10/2021 2:52:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline.
Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C. It has recently been overrun with messages encouraging “Patriots” to march on Washington D.C. with weapons on January 19.
Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will be offline until it finds someone else to host it.
Amazon declined to comment on the suspension. Parler has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Parler comment:
Employee
John Matze 🇺🇸
23 minutes ago
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John
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.
We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.
This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.
#speakfreely
More Info: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business
"....Parler CEO John Matze said today that his company has been dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements with the social media service.
“Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day,” Matze said today on Fox News.
Matze conceded that the bans could put the company out of business while raising free speech issues, calling it “an assault on everybody.”
“They all work together to make sure at the same time we would lose access to not only our apps, but they’re actually shutting all of our servers off tonight, off the internet,” Matze said. “They made an attempt to not only kill the app, but to actually destroy the entire company. And it’s not just these three companies. Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.”...."
This is a partial transcript of a Fox News show with Maria Bartiromo.
I wonder if the Trump kids could help with financing a big server farm?
I can’t recall.. I do remember going through a whole deplatforming issue something like 15 or 20 years ago. I think there was a lawsuit that Jim won. Don’t remember the details but maybe we have already had that fight?
What you posted re the tracking and geofencing. I am an “I.D. Addict” so know how TPTB use cell info. It seems they do it on older flip phones, too. And, like you, I think the info is retained forever.
Parler still up
Me too.
Easy enough to never use Amazon again. I have avoided it for years and have managed to survive just fine.
May have already been asked but can we as the public file a class action against big tech for their intrusion (putting it mildy)free speech or is that just a waste of time. Not looking for any compensation except to those service tey are trying to suppress.
Cell tower info is less accurate, and I keep mine off anyway. Also, I am not sure how geofencing works with the cell carriers. This was Google, ie Android phones they were working with, so the phones are sending GPS info back to Google.
These guys are heros.
Why execute the VP? He has already committed suicide. (Political)
It took me about 6 hours to remove all my photos, albums, videos, and posts yesterday. I’m going to stay with FB for 30 more days so “the photos you have moved to your trash will be permanently deleted in 30 days”. I have been with FB since 2009.
You don’t have to go anywhere to cancel Amazon Prime. You can do it online, just like you have typed your post online.
James Lindsay, king of your mom
@ConceptualJames
People are now asking (demanding) Cloudflare to deny Parler DNS services and DDOS protection.
If these tech companies (Twitter in particular) want to act like publishers instead of platforms, then they should be treated as such.
They should be sued every time someone uses twitter to send out a libelous tweet. Let it go to the supreme court where a decision will have to be made as to whether twitter is a platform or a publisher.
“ maybe it will be different this time and they will not kill people who want liberty”
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Yeah, and perhaps I will win the next Megamillions lottery, and on my way to claim my winnings, I will observe a flock of flying pigs so large that it darkens the noonday sky.
Sorry for being sarcastic, but that’s just not going to happen. First, it never does - ALL repressive regimes kill their opponents to the best of their abilities - after they try to silence them with laws and limiting access to communications. In our case, the Leftist scum (but I repeat myself) have already set up a web site for the “Trump Accountability Project,” as Orwellian of a name for compiling lists of future residents of re-education camps and shallow graves as one can imagine. This isn’t new, Bill Ayres spoke of getting rid of 25 million recalcitrant Americans...when our population was less than 2/3 of its present size; now it would be in the neighborhood of 40 million.
They ARE coming for us, in the same way that Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Einsatzgruppen did for people in the middle of the last century.
Coping MAGA
@CopingMAGA
Twilio just cut ties with Parler, meaning 2FA or phone signup verification is down.
You would be able to bypass needing a phone number/email by entering random digits, and possibly start botting depending on how good their captcha is.
This could end horrifically.
That’s why you can’t have any unmoderated platform.
Leftist provocateurs would just post Nazi Crap and overrun it and drive normals away.
Did not know that. And agree concerning “FR, Parler, Gab and the rest”. Still would use precautions in regard to “state actors”.
Is FR down?
Did I miss it?
I haven’t had my coffee yet.
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