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1-11-2021

PARLER, the right-winger's Twitter,
is going DARK tonight, and it may never come back, ever.

Parler, in addition to seeing its app banned from the Google Play Store and Apple’s AppStore because the platform allows for the uninhibited airing of hate speech (exclusively far-right), unfounded conspiracy theories, and open calls for violence against and killings of politicians and others, is going to be shut down tonight by Amazon Web Services.

AWS is the site’s chosen web host, and they decided yesterday to part ways with Parler.
Effective 11:59 PM tonight Parler is going dark.

Subject: Re: Parler ----- Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:33 am

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The Parler lawyers dumped them..
They cut ties, will not represent Payler.

Subject: Re: Parler ----- Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:50 am

Temple wrote:: The Parler lawyers dumped them..
They cut ties, will not represent Payler.

WTF are you babbling about??

Parler's lawyers didn't dump Amazon Web Services.

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CEO John Matze warned in his final post before the
3am deadline that 'we will likely be down longer than expected'
as tech firms distance themselves from the 'free speech' site.

'Amazon's, Google's and Apple's statements to the press about dropping
our access has caused most of our other vendors to drop
their support for us as well,' he said.

'Parler is my final stand on the Internet. I won't be making an account
on any social. Parler is my home.'

Launched in 2018, Parler operates much like Twitter with profiles people
can follow and 'parleys' instead of tweets.

'Our mission is to create a social platform in the spirit of the First Amendment
to the United States Constitution,' it boasts.
'We prefer that removing community members or member-provided
content be kept to the absolute minimum.'

The site claims more than 12million users in total, although analytics
firm Sensor Tower puts the number at10 million worldwide,
with eight million in the US.

Founded by computer engineer Matze and Republican donor Rebekah Mercer,
it attracts a mixture of far-right users and more traditional Republican voices -
and is already used by the president's children Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka.

Fox News star host Sean Hannity has 7.6million followers on Parler,
while his colleague Tucker Carlson has 4.4million.

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1-11-2021

Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First.

Including posts made during last week's insurrection at the Capitol, which could now be used to expose and arrest pro-Trump rioters.

Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including messages, images, videos, and users’ location data — shared during last week’s attack on the Capitol.

The data taken from Parler is still being processed, but Trump supporters are already voicing their concerns about what the data dump could expose about them and their activity in Washington, D.C. last week.

Twitter’s decision on Friday to ban President Donald Trump from its platform permanently — together with a raft of major QAnon accounts — should have a boon for Parler, the right-wing Twitter alternative that positioned itself as a “free-speech social network” but was in effect home to hate speech, anti-Semitism, and wild conspiracies.

But before CEO John Matze could even begin to dream of Trump moving his 80 million followers from Twitter to Parler, the roof fell in.

First, within minutes of Trump’s Twitter ban, Google announced it was banning the Parler app from its app store because of lax moderation policies.

A day later, Apple followed suit, and on Sunday, Amazon Web Services, where Parler hosts its platform, announced that it would be pulling the plug.

And so, just after 3 a.m. ET Monday morning, Parler went dark. But that’s not even the worst of it.

A hacker who goes by the name Crash Override on Twitter claims she found a web address that Parler used internally to retrieve data.

That allowed the hacker to make a list of all posts, videos, and images uploaded to Parler — including posts that users had deleted, such as those referring to the Capitol attack last Wednesday.

Like most online services, Parler didn’t actually delete user posts; they simply marked them as unviewable and omitted them from search results.

Initially, the hacker worked on downloading the data herself, but when Amazon announced it was going to shut off access, they urged her followers to join in by publishing a list of all the posts.

The hacker set up a crowdsourcing system where multiple people could help download the content. The downloaded data is now being processed before being uploaded to the Internet Archive, where anyone will be able to view or download it — including the open-source intelligence community and law enforcement agencies.

And the possibility of everything coming out has scared some Trump supporters.

“Bad news. Left extremists have captured and archived over 70TB of data from Parler servers. This includes posts, personal information, locations, videos, images, etc,” a Telegram account called North Central Florida Patriots said on Monday morning.

“The intent is a mass dox and a list to hold patriots ‘accountable’. It is too late to scrub your data, and it’s already archived. There is nothing you can do to prevent what’s already happened. All you can do is prepare for the fallout. Accountability may come in many forms for our free speech, doxing, jobs might be called, addresses leaked and people coming to your house, etc.”

Matze had said it would take the company a week to get back up and running with a new provider after Amazon’s decision. But in his final post on Parler before it went dark, the CEO sounded much less optimistic about coming back online.

“We will likely be down longer than expected [because] most people with enough servers to host us have shut their doors to us,” Matze said.

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1-11-2021

Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First.

Including posts made during last week's insurrection at the Capitol, which could now be used to expose and arrest pro-Trump rioters.

Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including messages, images, videos, and users’ location data — shared during last week’s attack on the Capitol.

The data taken from Parler is still being processed, but Trump supporters are already voicing their concerns about what the data dump could expose about them and their activity in Washington, D.C. last week.

Twitter’s decision on Friday to ban President Donald Trump from its platform permanently — together with a raft of major QAnon accounts — should have a boon for Parler, the right-wing Twitter alternative that positioned itself as a “free-speech social network” but was in effect home to hate speech, anti-Semitism, and wild conspiracies.

But before CEO John Matze could even begin to dream of Trump moving his 80 million followers from Twitter to Parler, the roof fell in.

First, within minutes of Trump’s Twitter ban, Google announced it was banning the Parler app from its app store because of lax moderation policies.

A day later, Apple followed suit, and on Sunday, Amazon Web Services, where Parler hosts its platform, announced that it would be pulling the plug.

And so, just after 3 a.m. ET Monday morning, Parler went dark. But that’s not even the worst of it.

A hacker who goes by the name Crash Override on Twitter claims she found a web address that Parler used internally to retrieve data.

That allowed the hacker to make a list of all posts, videos, and images uploaded to Parler — including posts that users had deleted, such as those referring to the Capitol attack last Wednesday.

Like most online services, Parler didn’t actually delete user posts; they simply marked them as unviewable and omitted them from search results.

Initially, the hacker worked on downloading the data herself, but when Amazon announced it was going to shut off access, they urged her followers to join in by publishing a list of all the posts.

The hacker set up a crowdsourcing system where multiple people could help download the content. The downloaded data is now being processed before being uploaded to the Internet Archive, where anyone will be able to view or download it — including the open-source intelligence community and law enforcement agencies.

And the possibility of everything coming out has scared some Trump supporters.

“Bad news. Left extremists have captured and archived over 70TB of data from Parler servers. This includes posts, personal information, locations, videos, images, etc,” a Telegram account called North Central Florida Patriots said on Monday morning.

“The intent is a mass dox and a list to hold patriots ‘accountable’. It is too late to scrub your data, and it’s already archived. There is nothing you can do to prevent what’s already happened. All you can do is prepare for the fallout. Accountability may come in many forms for our free speech, doxing, jobs might be called, addresses leaked and people coming to your house, etc.”

Matze had said it would take the company a week to get back up and running with a new provider after Amazon’s decision. But in his final post on Parler before it went dark, the CEO sounded much less optimistic about coming back online.

“We will likely be down longer than expected [because] most people with enough servers to host us have shut their doors to us,” Matze said.

Subject: Re: Parler ----- Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:34 am

Progressives Who Desperately Want to Censor Parler Just Got Some Bad News
By Jeff Charles | Jan 11, 2021 9:30 PM ET

They tried, and it looks like they may have failed. Social media company Parler, which has been under attack from the far-left for not censoring conservatives, seems to have found a new home after Amazon Web Services decided to stop hosting the company’s site.

The Washington Examiner reported:

On Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet webhosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik.

Last week, a group of Big Tech companies colluded to destroy Parler, claiming that the platform contributed to the riot that occurred at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. Google and Apple both removed the social media app from their stores only days before Amazon announced that it was booting the site from its hosting services. The collaboration came amid a widespread purge of conservative accounts on Twitter. (See: The Purge Is Here: Twitter Banning Influencers on Right, Removing Followers)

Epik released a statement on Monday explaining that it had not discussed providing hosting services to the social media company, but stated that Parler was “working on satisfying the requested terms placed upon them.”

The company also defended Parler, arguing that it was not being treated fairly by Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook. It said these entities operate by an “undeniable double standard” when it comes to their enforcement of their rules. Parler’s website has been down since Monday since it does not have a host.

The social media company also filed a lawsuit against Amazon in what could be a landmark case in the realm of online censorship.

From The Examiner:

Parler sued Amazon on Monday, alleging that the tech giant’s actions are unfair, anti-competitive, and politically motivated because Amazon has not taken any action against Twitter for similar violent content on its platform. Twitter is also a client of Amazon Web Services business for hosting websites.

The lawsuit claimed that without Amazon’s support, “Parler is finished as it has no way to get online.” The company stated that switching to an entirely new service provider would require significant changes to its website. This would cause the site to be offline for a “financially devastating period.”

Epik has been the subject of scorn from the far-left before this fiasco. They criticize the company for hosting sites that publish racist content. Most notably was their outrage at the company’s decision to host another social media platform called Gab, which was another service they sought to destroy in similar fashion.

Vice, a left-wing activist media site, wasn’t too happy about the new development. “Epik is already known as the internet savior of the far-right due to its support of other social media sites associated with the far-right,” they wrote.

The Southern Poverty Law Center also complained about the webhosting company. In 2019, they published a report claiming that despite not being overtly racist in its mission statement, had started “cornering the market on websites where hate speech is thriving.”

Indeed, the service has hosted some rather unsavory entities like white supremacist site The Daily Stormer and some Neo-Nazi podcast. But the company does host other more mainstream sites as well. The company, which is based in Seattle, argues that it hosts these sites due to its commitment to the idea of free speech.

Still, anyone who has been paying attention knows that the far-left and its adherents in the activist media have been waiting a long time to shut Parler down. Progressives have railed against the company, complaining that it became an echo chamber for conservatives who were fed up at the biased censorship at Twitter and Facebook. Of course, it never crossed their minds to consider the fact that their politically-motivated silencing of conservative accounts made platforms like Gab and Parler necessary in the first place.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The left did not try to destroy Parler and Gab because they had anything to do with political violence from the right. They are not as concerned over conspiracy theories as they might want us to think. Their motivation is clear: They do not want conservatives to express their views on platforms they do not control.

For the time being, it seems that they have failed in their attempt to wipe Parler off the internet. But there might still be other ways they can target Epik. They have already discussed going after email providers and financial institutions that do business with platforms they don’t like. The battle is far from over.

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People will be paranoid to use Parler.
Parler will have undercover posters,
the FBI will be all over the place, inside and out.
And- they have all the IP and info on most all the users
from the hack, they were given.
Parler is rendered useless in many ways.
it will be a FBI info base

Subject: Re: Parler ----- Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:59 am

Parler Returns In Skeletal Form, Reportedly With Backing From Infamous Russian-Owned Digital Firm
Dade Hayes | BusinessInsider
Tue, January 19, 2021, 11:05 AM

Social network Parler has returned to the internet, with the company’s founders continuing to promise a full-fledged comeback after the site was banished for its role in the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol.

Parler went dark earlier this month after Amazon Web Services decided to terminate its hosting agreement. The move followed the Parler app being removed from the Apple and Android stores.

A report by Reuters on Monday said the IP address used by Parler is owned by DDos-Guard, an entity controlled by two Russian men that has been linked to racist, right-wing and conspiracy sites, including 8kun. An infrastructure expert told the wire service that the company provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks.

“Our return is inevitable due to hard work, and persistence against all odds,” co-founder and CEO John Matze wrote in a message posted on the site. “Despite the threats and harassment not one Parler employee has quit. We are becoming closer and stronger as a team.”

The networking functionality of the Parler site is not available in its current incarnation.

Followers of Donald Trump flocked to Parler in recent months as the once-marginal site became known for having a far more laissez-faire stance on speech than mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Many personalities banned by larger networks hopped over to Parler, and some with large Twitter followings also decamped. After Trump supporters invaded the Capitol in an hours-long incursion over Congress certifying Trump’s election defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, the role of Parler and platforms like Gab and Telegram in helping rioters communicate became more widely known.

In a court filing last week responding to Parler’s lawsuit over alleged breach of contract, Amazon detailed numerous posts on Parler calling for the “rape, torture and assassination of public officials and private citizens.” While this material reached a crescendo before and during January 6, the tech company said, it had flagged the content for months, but Parler management was “unable or unwilling” to remove it.

Twitter and Facebook, among others, banned Trump’s widely followed accounts in the aftermath of the Capitol siege.

Parler’s disappearance was met with howls of outrage in some quarters, with TV personalities like Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo decrying the ouster by tech giants as an unwarranted attack on free enterprise.

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All 35TB of 1M+ parler videos and most of the images are finally accessible at https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Parler (you know it's good when twitter won't let you tweet the link)
5:42 PM · Jan 19, 2021·Twitter Web App

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1-21-2021

Judge rules against Parler says their claims are ‘inaccurate and unsupported’

A federal judge has denied the social media platform Parler's request to force Amazon Web Services to put its site back online while a lawsuit against the company is ongoing, Forbes reports.

According to the court, the platform favored by right-wing users has "fallen far short" of proving
the credibility of its legal claims.

"The Court explicitly rejects any suggestion"
by Parler that Amazon is obligated
"to host the kind of abusive, violent content at issue in this case, particularly in light of the recent riots at the U.S. Capitol," U.S. District Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein wrote in her ruling.
"That event was a tragic reminder that inflammatory rhetoric can more swiftly and easily than many of us would had hoped turn a lawful protest into a violent insurrection."

Amazon removed Parler from its servers after similar actions were taken by Apple and Google.

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[size=16]jesuukerist Obi..
can you size your junk so the pages/type don't runway off the screen..
you do not have word wrap so doit manually..fuk your posts and pictures run off the screen as do all other posts following your gigantic juk. are pushed off screen also..

Subject: Re: Parler ----- Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:31 pm

Temple wrote:: jesuukerist Obi..
can you size your junk so the pages/type don't runway off the screen..
you do not have word wrap so doit manually..fuk your posts and pictures run off the screen as do all other posts following your gigantic juk. are pushed off screen also..

Get a bigger monitor.

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2-3-2021

Parler CEO forced out — by GOP megadonor investor Rebekah Mercer.

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the CEO of alternative social network Parler has been fired — by a board of directors controlled by an infamous GOP megadonor.

"John Matze, the former CEO, said he was fired on Friday by the company's board.
He said the board is currently controlled
by conservative political donor Rebekah Mercer," reported Jeff Horwitz and Keach Hagey.

'Over the past few months, I've met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed,' he said in a statement. 'For example, I advocated for more product stability and what I believe is a more effective approach to content moderation.'"

Parler bills itself as a haven for unrestricted speech, attracting right-wingers frustrated that sites like Twitter and Facebook have recently taken a stronger stand about removing hate speech, election disinformation, and other content they deem unsuitable.

For a time last year, Parler was the fastest-growing social network, topping the app store in new downloads. However, the site has had a rocky few weeks, with many of its users storming the Capitol in January and the site being taken down by Amazon servers. It is unclear whether Matze's dismissal will result in a new policy direction.

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2-11-2021

Pro-Trump Parler network under congressional investigation for involvement in Capitol riot.

House Democrats are pursuing more information on the investors and creditors behind Parler, the alternative social network that has become a haven for Trump supporters and far-right extremists.

"In the weeks leading up to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, Parler users actively took to the platform to call for violence and even 'civil war,'" wrote House Oversight chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in a letter to Parler COO Jeffrey Wernick.

"A recent analysis by USA Today shows a strong connection between President Trump's speech at the January 6 rally and a significant uptick in calls for violence on Parler.
Immediately after President Trump exhorted his supporters to 'show strength' during his speech, the term 'civil war' surged into one of the top five most frequently used terms on Parler. One user wrote,
'Be men fight back and f*** them up. Civil war is upon us.'"

Parler bills itself as the "pro-free-speech" social network — which has disproportionately attracted Republicans who have been kicked off other social platforms for harassment, threats, and hate speech.

Many Parler users were present at the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January, with GPS data showing a stark real-time picture of how they converged on the building.

In the wake of this, Parler has come under fire from other tech platforms, with its app being removed from Apple and Google's stores and being kicked off of Amazon's hosting servers.

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