I see now that Amazon Web Services have kicked Parler off their site. So Parler has been effectively removed.
One of the reasons Amazon gave was Parler had people posting about marching on the capitol. Well that wasn't Parler, but some people. Lot's more plotted to loot and burn during the so-call Summer of Love last year on many, many sites. THAT was of course, applauded.
Many FReepers spoke out about marching on the Capitol.
When they pull the plug on Free Republic, what will we do?
John has some recent experience relocating, so FR is in reasonably good shape as far as this sort of potential threat goes.
The forbidden website went through a relocation that was fairly painful, took a couple months. Conservative Treehouse was booted a month a or so ago, and relocated. Went fairly smooth. Lots of work for a couple weeks behind the scenes (CTH got notice), and a week of so of pain making the move.
Pretty much whether or not a digital community survives is a function of will of the proprietor.
My sense is that FR is a small player at this moment in history. Might be good, for a change, to have a bit of obscurity.
Shortwave?
Exchange phone #s right now?
Stock up on food, A2 gear and supplies?
Damn hunnert Larri.
Just watched Parler CEO on Maria’s show, all other cloud server sources have denied access to them. A big tech coordinated effort to destroy them and “unapproved” speech.
As an aside, when FR went down a month or so ago, John and Jim were criticized for hosting its own servers instead of moving to the “cloud.” Given the events of the past 24 hours, it’s the only reason FR is not now in the same place as Parler is because of this difference. BTW, it still remains unknown if individual ISP’s will shut off access to FR.