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Parler CEO ‘Prepared to Take Full Legal Action’ After Big Tech Companies Target Platform
The Epoch Times ^ | JANUARY 10, 2021 | Janita Kan

Posted on 01/10/2021 11:19:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Parler founder and CEO John Matze said his company is “prepared to take full legal action” after several big tech companies suspended the social media network from their services, according to an email.

John Matze, Parler’s founder, told The Epoch Times in an email that he believes Apple, Google, and Amazon had acted in bad faith and that the social media platform is considering legal action.

Responding to accusations that Parler was enabling “threats of violence and illegal activity,” Matze said these companies are using recent events to “go after Parler,” even though “there is no evidence Parler was used to coordinate the events.”

“Parler has no groups-style feature and Facebook was the number one tool for coordinating meetups for that event,” Matze said.

The targeted moderation by these companies against Parler came after civil unrest and acts of violence marred a largely peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. A group of rioters and a minority of protesters waving American and Trump flags illegally stormed the Capitol building as lawmakers were counting electoral votes in a joint session of Congress. The mayhem on the day left five people dead, including one police office, and dozens of officers injured.

In response to the Capitol breach, a number of Silicon Valley technology companies ramped up their policing of statements and comments from President Donald Trump, conservatives, and other voices they believe may cause harm. Twitter on Friday permanently removed Trump’s account on its platform and justified its censorship by saying that the president had violated its “Glorification of Violence Policy” after he posted a message urging protesters to remain peaceful and leave the Capitol. The Trump campaign Twitter account has also been removed.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; parler; twitter
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maria bartelomo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdgQE-13EA8

skip to nunes interview

makes point tiktok is still available


41 posted on 01/10/2021 12:33:48 PM PST by SteveH
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The problem that Parler.com has right now is that unfortunately, they are using Amazon Web Services Redshift database. I am an expert at Redshift. And I can tell you, it is a LOT easier to switch to a different ISP. It is going to be a hell of a lot of work to swap out their backend database system. Basically, Jeff Bezos has a kill switch on Parler.com. He can shut them down in the blink of an eye.


42 posted on 01/10/2021 12:38:59 PM PST by jroehl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We used to call this “restraint of Trade” and “Conspiracy to restrain Trade” and it is a Major Felony under our existing Anti Trust Laws, it has severe consequences too, Like Prison and Dissolution and Seizure of everything YOU OWN. If we actually a Department of Justice, on Monday morning they would be filing CRIMINAL ANTITRUST Cases and ARRESTING all the execs at these tech companies. You would see SEIZED BY US MARSHALL’S if you went to their domain.....

A Lawless Banana Republic


43 posted on 01/10/2021 12:46:36 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: bike800
Maybe I am off base... but how is this any different than a baker denying service to a same sex wedding?

The baker and the pervert don't have a signed contract.

44 posted on 01/10/2021 1:03:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: jroehl
"I am an expert at Redshift. And I can tell you, it is a LOT easier to switch to a different ISP. It is going to be a hell of a lot of work to swap out their backend database system. Basically, Jeff Bezos has a kill switch on Parler.com. He can shut them down in the blink of an eye."

This is not the barrier to entry elsewhere that you think it is. Given that Parler wasn't particularly robust to begin with, suffering from horribly-implemented 2-step verification, and the invisibility of external search (and not particularly great internal search), if it shakes them up as Bongino should be shook up ... I have advised to take their time building up an defensible infrastructure and get Matze off the boob tube.

45 posted on 01/10/2021 2:00:51 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: rktman

He needs allies, us.

Jan 20th is Big Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, cable tv, etc


46 posted on 01/10/2021 2:04:19 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Big Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, cable tv, etc)
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To: janetjanet998

That is good news! Hopefully, many who have been asleep are waking up.


47 posted on 01/10/2021 2:12:10 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Big Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, cable tv, etc)
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To: bike800
"Maybe I am off base... but how is this any different than a baker denying service to a same sex wedding?"

Judicial offices, firms and courts were refusing enforcement against discrimination against conservatives based on creed a long time ago. I saw such refusals as far back as the late 1970s. It's a problem with judicial interests. They infested the legislatures, the executive, and started taking over a long time ago. Universities train them to fulfill the desires of global plutocrats.

48 posted on 01/10/2021 2:40:13 PM PST by familyop
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An enforced anti-trust action of any consequence would need to be backed by the President and Congress. That was blown by conspiracy theory propagandists pushing weak minds against educating themselves, campaigning and voting.


49 posted on 01/10/2021 2:43:35 PM PST by familyop
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; ...

Destroy them before they can destroy you.

PING!


50 posted on 01/10/2021 4:05:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: janetjanet998

Sort of. There’s that old fantasy about the Chinese market( A fantasy as old as the United States). They may not mind losing a few million Americans if they can get a billion Chinese (if the Chicoms let them) users.


51 posted on 01/10/2021 5:46:08 PM PST by rxh4n1
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