Posted on 01/10/2021 1:27:32 PM PST by Onthebrink
Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their 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.”
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People forget Auschwitz wasn’t just an extermination camp. It was a huge complex with three camps. Auschwitz was the main labor camp and admin center, and Birkenau was the extermination camp. Monowitz was the slave labor camp for the IG Farben synthetic rubber plant. The big corporations were all in for cheap slave labor, and certainly they knew what was happening.
Just think.... All this with the Purge just beginning...
The really bad stuff will start within weeks of the inauguration... It will be commonplace to see and hear people being dragged from their homes at all hours of the day & night...
Your FBI, DOJ, BATF, DHS, CDC, and National Guard can hardly wait till they are turned loose..
I would be nothing to pull the plug on Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google.
It is one think to enslave a small unarmed minority and quite another to oppress the better armed half of the country.
When speech ends, shooting begins.
>It will be commonplace to see and hear people being dragged from their homes at all hours of the day & night...
It only succeeds in its aims when you don’t hear it.
On December 31st 1983 set out for a non-stop drive with a friend from Indianapolis to Phoenix. (Celebrated New Years in a car driving through Memphis.)
Before we left my dad insisted that we take his C.B. We got to the pan-handle of Texas in the middle of the night, low on gas, and boy did that CB come in handy.
God bless truckers.
On December 31st 1983 set out for a non-stop drive with a friend from Indianapolis to Phoenix. (Celebrated New Years in a car driving through Memphis.)
Before we left my dad insisted that we take his C.B. We got to the pan-handle of Texas in the middle of the night, low on gas, and boy did that CB come in handy.
God bless truckers.
Our side isn't innocent in this. It was our side (Republicans, free traders, etc.) that pushed for these trade deals with the communists. I can't count how many debates I've had with other Freepers who defended the free trade deals citing lower prices while ignoring who it was we were sending our wealth to. At least once I was called stupid for choosing to buy higher priced American made goods.
If anything we're even more at fault, because we knew what the communists were and what their goals are, yet we sent our manufacturing, our wealth, and our jobs over there for the sake of saving $.10 on foreign made pens. Did we honestly believe we could deal with the devil and not get burned?
Now we have our cheap big screen TVs to make the lefties rich as they perform for us, and we want to blame everyone else. At what point to wee accept responsibility for our part in funding all of this?
I was just on there it is still working!!
The service providers are an even weaker link. At least for web hosting you have the ability to DIY with your own hardware. I believe that this is still what Jim and John Robinson do here at Freerepublic.
Raheem Kassam’s National Pulse is best Conservative show I’ve ever seen....and I’m a big fan of Rush....he could carry the mantle into the future
Think time will tell.
Just sit back and watch and pray for our President!
The predominant “social media” are companies that have the right to set the rules for their membership who use their services.
The destruction of a company and its interstate commerce, on the scale that “suits” and politicians of many stripes (including judges and lawyers), are affecting in concert -— organized or not -— is effectively a violation under RICO plus a violation of:
The Interstate Commerce Clause
. . . of our Constitution. A *clause* so broadly used as an instrument allegedly to establish “EQUAL OPPORTUNITY” according to the decades of leftist rhetoric.
Young people suffered economically under Obama and were starting to do better under Trump. When they go back to struggling again under Uniparty policies, they will start flexing their political muscle as they begin approaching middle age
Can the states enact rules regulating these big companies.
Can Texas enact a law that says companies cannot ban companies/people for their political beliefs in order to operate in their state.
I figure Texas and Florida would be the likeliest candidates.>>> Yes i just emailed Doug Mastriano here in PA to initiate a free speech internet charter where companies can operate without being sanctioned by the federal government or individuals.
I have Paler and it is still around.
You raise good points, but I think you are not properly accounting for the degree of outright viciousness and hatred of our enemies. They obviously smell blood in the water and are circling for the kill.
You wrote “the only services they (FR) consume are physical datacenter hosting and ISP connectivity.”
FR also depends on the DNS system as well as myriad other necessary business services such as email, payment, legal, insurance, and banking (I’m probably missing a bunch). All of these are vulnerable points of attack and they don’t have to shut them all down, just one of them, to end FR.
The reason FR is not being attacked (yet) has nothing to do with the type of content, the fact it is not publicly held or has moderators. It is because the FR scale has stayed small enough to not attract the attention of mortal enemies.
But, as they exhaust the big targets, you can be sure they will go after smaller and smaller targets. Want to see how this has played out before? Look at the “gay rights” movement. That battle went on for decades and, as soon as they won everything they were fighting for, they immediately switched to the much smaller aggrieved group — trannies. Mark my words, they will use the same tactic here.
They use the same strategy in reverse, too. Start with a small target, then go big after bagging some trophies. In the energy industry, they first got power plants to install sulfur dioxide scrubbers, then NOx scrubbers, then went after mercury emissions. Then they leapfrogged that and went big and sought to shut down ALL coal. That was successful and now they are shutting down all natural gas. Now they are working aggressively to end the production of gasoline burning cars.
They are never satisfied and, once they sense weakness and smell that blood in the water, they adapt strategy and tactics and continue the fight.
This shifting of the battleground to business does not bode well for freedom and liberty.
I hear that the NBA had a Jewish D-league there too /s
I have Paler and it is still around.
util 11:59 pm tonight
And I think the only reason Microsoft exists is that, when IBM developed their first PC, they purposely sought an outside developer for the PC software because they fully expected anti-trust action if they developed and owned both the hardware and software for their new PC. - IBM could definitely have developed their own PC software if they thought they would have been allowed to do it.
Now these giant tech firms just buy up any new firm that might become competition and not a word from the US government.
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