* Parler went offline at 3am EST after Amazon booted it from its web hosting app
* It has already been kicked off Apple and Google's stores after the Capitol siege
* The app was the most-downloaded on Apple after Donald Trump's Twitter ban
* CEO John Matze warned that 'we will likely be down longer than expected'
* He later said the app has 'worked hard' to 'remove prohibited content'
* Don Jr. shared a post which read: 'The internet was a hell of a lot safer before @Twitter, @Apple, @Google, and @Facebook started protecting us from it'
Right-wing social media site Parler has disappeared from the web and vanished from the Apple and Google app stores after tech giants cut ties with the platform in the wake of the deadly mob attack at the US Capitol.
Parler went offline shortly after 3am EST after Amazon booted the platform off its web hosting service, effectively shutting it down until it can find a new hosting partner.
Hailed by Donald Trump supporters as a conservative-friendly alternative to Twitter - which permanently suspended the president on Friday - the site is seen as a magnet for the far right and was accused by Apple, Google and Amazon of continuing to allow messages inciting violence after Wednesday's riot.
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WNU Editor: If Amazon, Google, and Apple applied the same standards to themselves as they did to Parler. They would also be forced to shut down. Parler's mistake is that they positioned themselves to be dependent on Amazon's hosting services. And because of that dependence .... once Parler was cut-off everyone followed suit including their text message services and email providers.
I am the cofounder of Bookyards.com .... after Gutenberg the second oldest free online library on the web. I cannot tell you how many times over the years I have been told to put Bookyards on Amazon's cloud. It would be mega-cheaper in the long run to do so, and if technical problems should occur, Amazon would correct it very quickly.
I have always refused preferring to have my own servers and people involved to avoid exactly what has happened to Parler.
One thing that I learned very early in the evolution of the web is if the large tech companies see you as a competitor, they will shut you down. Parler has just learned that sobering lesson the hard way.
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I appreciate your commitment to free speech and free expression both on this page as well as in your management of Bookyards.
I studied radicalization at King's College London and was reprimanded by a professor for citing the ISIS English e-magazine "Rumiya" in a paper on ISIS...I argued that it was essential for me as a graduate student to study primary sources directly. I was told that in the UK there is a risk of arrest and imprisonment just for having the materials, even for research purposes, and I was told that there "are plenty of experts who have witten about these publications whose work you can study". Needless to say I did not accept this. I continued studying extremist literature and a year later had a paper published with information I learned largely from right-wing extremist sources ranging from The Turner Diaries to Mein Kampf. One of the best instruments to dismantle an extremist ideology is their own speech, their own literature, and their own hubris.
Having returned to the US, this trend concerns me greatly. I trust no one to determine for me in antecessum what is truth. It stands in contradiction to our protections against prior restraint...and recklessly overlooks lessons learned centuries ago and seen in the works of Milton, Mills, and Payne.
"I was told that in the UK there is a risk of arrest and imprisonment just for having the materials"
There should not be if you put university officials on notice ahead of time and perhaps the government. Many people have claimed they were doing research, when they were not an academic setting and had no product.
There was and is a problem of wanna be terrorists claiming their reading material is or was research. But this is not your case. There are reason for them doing this. Blanket rule making because they are lazy. Or they want to control the narrative on Islam. Not possible, but they will try.
Please do not use big Latin words like antecessum scare are esteemed and learned readers here. When they do learn its meaning they will immediately rush off to see what one of their shamans have to say to refute such a dangerous ideal.
1:33 here.
I agree with your post (12:24). Also, it was very informative.
A big thumb's up from me Alex
Obviously, the comment below did not age well.
fred said...
There is no reason to use or depend on Google if you dislike them or do not trust them. None.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018
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Did we see a cordinated assault to silence critics, remove their platforms as well as their recorded history and ability to connect by taking the service of the server - or does the information and contacts etc. Still exist.
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