Google suspends Parler from app store after deadly Capitol violence

Axios ^ | 1-08-2021 | Shawna Chen

[Anti-Bubba182]

Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company's role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.........

[familyop]

"They’re killing the internet for good. It’s going to be nothing but a giant echo chamber."

Fallacious arguments and ridicule are a waste of time for politics anyway. We need more collaboration for effective political action with knowledge of civics and good strategies behind it.

Girls who just want to have fun should troll the leftist forums and get them to fight with each other and waste their time instead of ours.

[LouieFisk]

so much for the Android fallback.
Web App! Web App! Web App!”
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The website should work - unless that gets taken down, too. Maybe linux has a Parler app.

[austinaero]

Hopefully some sane patriotic money will pour into Parler and get it enough financial boost to host it’s own site!

[steve86]

Parler still seems to be available on Apple App Store at the moment.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Team Trump on Parler already has 27 million followers.

[GreyFriar]

Rummy, that is inviting the fox into the hen house. First Fox, then Blaze, Newsmax, and all conservative sites out there.

[Shady]

Duck Duck Go and Brave.

[Dad was my hero]

I just downloaded the app from apple App Store.

[Shadow44]

Apparently Amazon is trying to kick them off their servers.

[steve86]

Yeah, I can see it now. But still can’t get content on it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

An update to Safari or Chrome can include predetermined blocked sites.

I've never heard of a browser shipping with pre-blocked sites. And in any event, there are lots of alternatives to both Safari and Chrome, and Chrome is based on the open-source Chromium project. Any conservative who wants can always download Chromium and use that.

I'm not trying to minimize the impact of the Google ban on Parler and the threatened Apple ban - they're devastating and will seriously harm Parler's adoption by more people. But there are ways around it for now - the bigger threat is that other companies will be pressured into boycotting Parler and strangling it financially.

[LouieFisk]

“Parler is a website. It’s just crashed because Trump joined it.”
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True that a lot of hits will cause a DDOS-like crash. I hope Parler has it’s own hosting & servers so they’re not dependent on someone else for their being up & online.

[Shadow44]

They’re using Amazon apparently, and they’re in the process of kicking them off.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Me too! Most however are doing it by phone. I think the phone is where the future is unless that network fails for some reason.

[DCBryan1]

What is Trump’s handle on Parler?

@weareallscrewedbuygunsandammotoday

[ifinnegan]

“I’ve never heard of a browser shipping with pre-blocked sites.”

These are not normal times.

I think also they could do it more sophisticated than my example.

[Swarthy Greek Immigrant]

This is a sign of weakness by the Deep State - both Republican and Democrats. They fear us - this is their reaction to fearing us and rightly so. May God have mercy on us all because from here on out we are in a fight for freedom the likes of which we have not seen before.

Patriots breached the Wizard of Oz Capital and we saw them cowering. Lots of martyrs will be made. This is OK - Saint John revealed to us this was coming. These are birth pangs. The horsemen are loose.

[Jonty30]

Even on my phone, I work through a browser app than through a phone app.

[dfwgator]

It’s starting to resemble the Soviet Coup Attempt of 1991.

[jersey117]

Thanks for posting. I just deleted my google app.