The CEO of Parler, John Matze, appears on Fox News to discuss the targeting of the social media platform and the removal of their website from Amazon servers.
Obviously the issue of targeted deplatforming is one close to the current community of CTH 2.0 users and administrators after we suffered a similar targeting from WordPress/Automattic. However, there is something about the Parler construct that is puzzling. WATCH:
Outwardly, Parler launched as an alternative to Twitter for conservative and liberty-minded voices concerned about having a space for free speech. With that in mind why would Parler start by using Amazon host services for their platform?
While it is not OK for Parler to be removed under any circumstances, John Matze primary responsibility was stewardship toward the Parler user community. Responsible stewardship would not include going to the ideological Big Tech enemy, Amazon, for the primary provider tools for the platform.
Additionally, it appears the vendor tech community that supported the Parler platform simultaneously announced they too would drop Parler as a customer, following the announcement by Amazon. Parler was apparently caught off-guard.
With Big Tech and social media companies now increasingly allowing users to be identified and/or targeted; and considering the sensitivity of privacy for all web-hosted engagements; perhaps now our CTH community has a greater context for why we go to such painstaking levels during the rebuild to remain anti-fragile.
A few examples below as noted when we were addressing the commenting system:
CTH 2.0 does not have any tracking software initiated to recognize the user in the comment system. THERE ARE NO COOKIES deployed to track you. There is no system in place by CTH to monitor you or recognize you. This is part of our current privacy position.
This is a privacy and tracking issue. CTH 2.0, as an independent website, is currently not tracking or applying any host generated tracking data of the participants.
Most websites do apply some version of tracking via “cookies” to make your engagement part of an active tracking system (make user experience easier); and/or use those cookies to deliver you targeted advertising.
CTH wants to ensure that your user-data is private to you. This is why we did not originally engage the third-party Disqus commenting platform. We do not want any tracking system on the website for your data.
We selected comment software from WPDiscuz (not affiliated with Disqus in any form) specifically because we can control the platforms internal content according to our privacy demands.
The content in the Treehouse community (the comment section) is derived from your choices, your freedom. It is your discussion and we are stewards protecting your conversation.
No outside system is gathering any user data or content on the commenting platform, everything within CTH 2.0 is being built on a very stable and private proprietary foundation.
On email notifications. Again, we explain that currently we do not have an active email notification system for new posts in place. The reason for the delay is again a matter of privacy. An email auto-notification system is done by a third-party provider.
[…] One of our priorities right now is establishing an email notification system where you can subscribe to automatic notifications of new posts etc. As with almost all systems of this type (there are many) it involves the use of a third party email transmission process. Y’all are aware that privacy is a CTH priority, so we are being very careful about vetting the service and setting up this notification system to protect CTH users.
CTH does not compile user information, does not engage in the manufacture of processes that assemble lists of users or any user data. We are working to ensure we do not end up creating an external list of subscribers that would be vulnerable to exploitation. Your privacy in all matters related to CTH engagement is my priority. (read more)
The example of Parler is a real life example, playing out in real time, providing you context for why some of the CTH 2.0 features you request are slow to deployment.
Thanks again for bearing with us as we work through some technical issues, search for optimal solutions, and fiercely retain the original values and mission priority of the Treehouse. The Truth Has No Agenda
Myself and the incredibly hardworking site admins consider ourselves stewards to this community. YOU are what matters. Your ability to analyze, discuss, crowdsource and provide your comments on the subject matter is what makes CTH home.
The key to Treehouse 2.0 is recognizing we have built something within a big tech ecosphere that wants to see us removed. By being proactive we have avoided some serious challenges and that makes us better stewards for our conversation.
Remember, YOU are the important part.
Without you CTH doesn’t really have a purpose. Individually we could stand outside shouting at trees with no impact; but together, sitting on the figurative cyber-porch, the conversation is rich with unique skill-sets, subject matter experts and life-long experiences that make discussion so much more valuable.
The importance of safe assembly is more prominent than ever…
Hmmmm … Trump video NOT from YouTube … UGETube … seems to load faster than either YouTube or Rumble but I wonder, what’s the catch …
https://politicrossing.com/donald-trumps-latest-commercial-is-epic/
This is awesome.
That was beautiful and the prefect song to go behind it. I’m crying tears of sadness and anger.
I really appreciate the captures of Hillary’s and Obama’s PO’ed faces at the beginning
So good, thanks for sharing ??
“ugetube.com refused to connect” —for me.
I count myself lucky that he was my President for four years. There will be nobody else like him. God bless him.
I am really going to miss President Trump. Hope everything goes well for him. It is going to be a long four years with Biden.
I doubt he will last 4 years. Reign due to health and K takes over. What disgrace and an affront to America.
Yeah at the exact right moment that will allow for her to have 10 years as POTUS.
Ugh. The stuff nightmares are made of.
harris is a bit player. she only keeping the seat warm. watch for obama (either one) or clinton (either one) to be president within the year.
you may think differently when the bill for the $7 trillion comes due. you kids, grandkids and great grand kids will curse trump’s name!
I’m not aware that President Trump acted unilaterally to increase the debt. Why? Because he didn’t and he can’t…it took enough people in the Senate and House of Representatives to pass legislation that President Trump then signed into law.
Those in Congress (both sides of the Uni-Party) who went along with all of this spending and during the Trump, Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush l, Reagan, etc administrations are equally to blame as President Trump.
So, it is stuff and nonsense to blame the $7 trillion debt on President Trump’s back.
You are so very wrong and I completely 100% reject such juvenile thinking.
We shouldn’t pay back one cent. The debt is designed so that it’s impossible to ever pay back the banking and foreign interests like the CCP. Anyone preaching “austerity” is either delusional, or trying to keep America buried under debt forever.
Wont show on firefox!
Get Brave or Dissenter for quality browsers. I have used Vivaldi too. Firefox is Mozilla and they are not your friend!
The video implies that it’s all over for Trump. I don’t believe that.
Exactly.
This is an unofficial Trump music video by a user named Justin Bellucci that was uploaded onto Vimeo back in November 2020.
https://vimeo.com/451311835
Unfortunately, Justin Bellucci had his Trump music video stolen and uploaded onto UGEtube with a misleading title “Trump’s newest TV commercial”, tricking people into thinking that Trump has conceded or given up the fight.
Please warn others that an unofficial Trump music video is being falsely claimed as Trump’s newest TV commercial.
Beautiful! “They” can steal an election and engage in every other violation of the 10 Commandments, but not our knowledge of what is true and right. The truth is what it is. WE KNOW. I encourage all Treepers to start writing a small historical biography of sorts, to pass on to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Entitle it “When America Was Free”. Put it with your will, to be read at a later date.
There is just one problem, Leon. ugetube “refused to connect.” No video.
Isn’t it suppose to be Dan Scavino’s job to post these music videos for President Donald Trump yet Dan Scavino did not post this particular music video on any of his social media accounts.
Because of this fact, I believe the Trump music video you have linked too may have been created by a Trump supporter who is a private citizen and not someone from the Trump administration.
I have seen it on another site recently.
It is not over until the fat lady sings. That wasn’t a fat lady, that was Frank Sinatra…
The source of this unoffficial Trump music video has been discovered.
Trump – My Way – Edited by Justin Bellucci uploaded on November 2020:
https://vimeo.com/451311835
In other words, Dan Scavino did not create this music video but a private citizen named Justin Bellucci back in November 2020.
Unfortunately, this person named “The Crazy Conservative” on UGETube is falsely claiming this music video as Trump’s newest TV Commercial.
You should consider warning others that this unofficial music video was stolen from Justin Bellucci and then used to mislead people into thinking it is Trump’s newest TV Commercial.
A must watch for all Treepers. Thank you for posting!
more of the same institutional story telling.
remeber, it was trump who invited followers to the capital on the 6th. it was a setup from the beginning.
there were political agitators intermixed in the crowd. another name for agent provocateurs!! a very, very old trick of the political class.
Oh, yeah. I watched it. Glad I was home alone…nobody seeing the tears.
How on earth is it that this man doesn’t have another four years?
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values.
For a Nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people.”
– JOHN KENNEDY 1962
JFK could not win their nomination today. This is not his party.
Irony of ironies….someone (sorry, forgot who) pointed out that in order to get something published that is now verboten in our country, one can go through RT.
Magine that – Russia protecting OUR former free speech!
Someone in the comments’ section on CTH.
Ezpz2.
Yip twas I.
A great British MD Dr Malcolm Kendrick, a practising doctor down in England, is a vehement opponent of Statins, High Carb diets, doubts the Chinese Flu death rates, opposes House Arrests and has his doubts about Gates vaccinations.
A man after my own heart, but for months has been censored here, so had to go to Moscow to get his blog published
Look him up http://www.drmalcolmkendrick.com I think.
Yes ironic is it not.
drmalcolmkendrick.ORG
Neither of these sites open, .com or .org
Searching for him via duck duck go will yield results.
Ah, thank you, Patrick! Dr. Malcolm Kendrick sounds like my kind of guy, too!
I will definitely be reading him. ??
Thanks again!
Does CloutHub use AWS?
Is it a honey pot?
Its lame, Gab is the best alternative but they are seeing such massive growth right now it’s hard to access.
Tucker Carlson is thrilled to be back in his comfort zone, playing the pretend conservative whose pointing out leftist hypocrisy.
When we needed him, he was a disloyal POS who stabbed Trump in the back. I’m not interested in – and don’t need to be enlightened by – anything Carlson says now.
agree 1000% percent. Not watched any fox of any kind since Nov 7th.
Caught a few moments of Michael Savage’s radio program this evening – where he was totally blasting Trump, saying he should resign.
Turned it off – and at least (for now) they can’t track what radio station I listen to.
I never cared for Savage’s bombast in the first place.
Every once in a while, I check out the front page of the lefty mediaite site, which is now behind a paywall. Of course, I won’t pay to read their junk
But, as I said, you can see the main page and the titles of their entries.
Tonight, one of their headlines was that on Friday, faux was trounced in the ratings by both cnn and mess-nbc in ALL of the demo groups.
Love it when that happens. They are in the abyss.
I haven’t watched Fox since the election night in November. This weekend I started the removal of all Twitter and FB content. I’m done.
Happy to see Twitter’s stock is down.
I deleted my very bleak and barely used Twitter acct working on my gmail/google acct now. Taking longer as I used it for all my email comms.
The only time Savage is anyone’s friend is when that person says his name loudly.
Savage has a sick ego.
I sent an email to Cumulus media informing them that I don’t listen to them anymore…their hosts on WLS Chicago have become intolerable. I used to have that radio station on for 10-12 hours a day. No more. Nor do I patronize their advertisers.
I quit petty much
Fox back in the summer…their changes were palpable then.
I’ve been out of the loop for a while (death in the family). How did Tucker stab Trump in the back?
So sorry for your loss.
Tucker didn’t quite seem “to be back in his comfort zone” fully to me; although he was certainly trying to be. His high pitched lecturing rants were similar but his “outrage” acting was more obvious.
It is almost laughable that he is now pretending to be championing the fight against the Democrat/Big Tech abuses when he backed off his support for Trump somewhat during the election while most of his FNC colleagues were clearly heavily promoting the Democrats. FNC can not escape the fact and the truth that they helped elect the speech clampdown Biden/Harris admin and then ignored or downplayed any mention of election fraud. FNC is partly responsible for everything the Democrats do to America.
Tucker said, he didn’t delve into the allegations of election fraud because he had “mixed feelings.” Perhaps if he had delved into the evidence accumulated he would no longer have had mixed feelings.
But each public person now has to decide f they can skirt the key words that will get them banned. I think there are examples, esp from WW2 Germany, where people were able to disagree w/out speaking the verboten words. Levin, Bongino, Rush et all each will need to stay on air, in the public forum, to try & reach the people who are feeling a bit of whoa, what’s happening. Because those are the people who need to think where is this going.
Levin, Bongino, Rush, and all of the Cumulus radio conservative talking heads have been told NOT to refer to the election as being stolen. I noticed even Rush yesterday cutting off some callers when they came close to broaching the subject.
I don’t think Rush is on cumulus. Levin said on his show last night that it is not true or at least he has not been contacted or told anything of the sort.
Tucker also did not want to delve into Hunter’s personal problems – did not want to be part of the “piling on”
Ditto.
Here here.
Yes. Remember the Tea Party how it got coopted by the same sorts of backstabbers and do nothings,
I don’t click anything on twitter or fox. I’ll take SD WORd FOR IT!
The CEO seems to be reading from a script and not all that emotionally attached to the situation. Just my take. I watched Sidney Powell be so angry at the situation she was shaking but still under control. This guy, not so much.
The CEO didn’t seem the least bit upset.
Something doesn’t seem right that he didn’t really think this was going to happen.
Why is that exactly? Did he have prior assurances from someone or people that it wouldn’t?
It just seems like the Height of Naivete…so what was the real answer.
AWS a big provider to the government… to the CIA – he set up the kill switch on Parler.
Amazon’s October 2020 quarterly results:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/amazon-revenue-model-2020/
Corporate philosophy much like Walmart. Sink all the other boats then pick up what floats to the top sans survivors. It’s just business. Kinda like what Sir Willard the Weird dilecto did.Slash and burn move on don’t look back. Never look back. It’s the American way after all.
In the late 70’s early 80’ Control Data Corp & T RW were hot. Made money and got out. Learned it was a crap shoot at best. Bought land. slower yield on investment but much easier on the blood pressure. No regrets. Hate brokers and financial advisors. Most of them. Never liked someone trying to sell me something. If it’s good it sells itself
Like the Bushies in Texas…
Yup, got a big boost from COVID. Shut down or restricted all retail/wholesale businesses.
I think he was really, really tired. Looked peaked to me. And no wonder. Think about what he had been through.
I thought I saw something where Dan Bongino said that he owned Parler but anything to that
Dan Bongino owns a very small slice of Parler. He said he’s gotten very little sleep in the last three days.
Yes! My Mom looks at the stock market every weekday and says why is Ford so low and Tesla so high – I mean she knows what they are saying but it irks her – she says it would be so wonderful to own a lot of Ford stock – she just FEELS it will bump up
Tell Mom the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
The market is a casino. A field of broken promises and broken dreams. Don’t let it make you jump out of any windows. It’s only money right? The big boys jump out of the game just as you are jumping in. Lands the thing the only thing of real value. I own Swamp Land lots of it. It’s the safest most serene place I’ve found in 70 plus years of on this nut house planet. The Swamp has been greatly misunderstood. D C used to be a swamp. NOW it is a disgusting fetid fever slough. It is a SEWER. The home of Sewer Rats sporting ccp Cash and with a real bad stink eye out for folks who love their country and their way of life.
We haven’t heard about this at all…back when Donald was a candidate, he sold gazillions of his stock holdings…big DOW stocks, all overpriced. Around that time, I remember hearing him also saying that the “market” was rigged. I can’t find those reports anymore.
I suspect the same. Too many people are not working and or not spending. Common sense, (as I am not a finance person), tells me there is a huge “correction” coming.
Well, these 4 years have been extraordinarily costly to PDJT. He missed the market climb during his watch, he passed up revenue from his businesses and now the bastards want to see his businesses are never acceptable to use as an ‘American’.
I read that he never put his money in stocks as he knew how the market worked and preferred real state.
$$$Thirty TRILLION in debt brought to you by The mitch&nancy show. With special guest stars: 535 of the most out of touch human beings on the planet. Maybe with one or two exceptions to that statement. The jury is still out. I really don’t appreciate them selling out my kids future. This treason thing rubs me the wrong way.
Thank you for all your very valuable work!
and I should have added that it’s needed now more than ever.
With utmost gratitude Sundance and CTH Team. ??
when I use my wordpress details to submit comments here, I see my avatar, from my login there, posted here.
therefore, something somewhere is linked up between CTH and WP.
I’m not concerned, just making observation. you have crafted an amazing platform.
Your avatar is most likely hosted on Gravatar, another property of Automattic, the former host of CTH. Since you have a custom avatar, I guess that at some point you went to gravatar.com and put in your WP credentials.
Looks like a good opportunity for the Treehouse to build the new Parler
The new Parler already exists: Gab.
They are really slow right now, but they are adding servers as fast as they can to keep up with load.
Actually, do you remember that it was implied to SD that CTH was more like Facebook than a blog, and that it was the reason CTH was kicked out of WordPress?
My suggestion: build the Treehouse as a more solid Facebook than Facebook itself.
Listen to Dan Bongino, at least the beginning.
https://rumble.com/vcnt97-ep.-1432-the-road-ahead-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Thank you for all of this.
pressing my own virtual “like” button on this post – thank you, Sundance!
The reason Parler probably used Amazon servers is because the business Parler is in, by its very nature, is extremely server-intensive, server farms are expensive to build, operate and maintain, and it’s a lot cheaper, if you want to get a server-intensive messaging platform off the ground quickly, to rent Amazon’s servers – they dominate the market – than it is to build server farms and find people with the expertise to operate and maintain them from scratch.
Parler was always going to be in a tricky situation. Part of what makes a social media platform work is that it’s big. There is little point to using a social media platform that few people use when there’s another one available that lots of people use. To be credible, Parler needed to get big, fast.
Obviously the advantages of going with Amazon were a mirage, but I recognize that Parler was in a tricky situation. I don’t know if it’s reasonable to expect them to have done much better than they did without the benefit of hindsight.
I agree with you that critics are being overly harsh. Parler is clearly the victim of a few tech giants engaging in cartel behavior, conspiring with one another to take the company out. If our nation were operating normally, Google, Apple and Amazon would be facing severe legal consequences for what they’ve done. Just how cynical do critics think the people running Parler should have been? Would Parler execs have been equally naive to assume that if they had build server farms from scratch here in the US, that hired goons from Google, Apple and Amazon wouldn’t have burned it down, paid off the insurance company not to cover Parler’s losses and paid off law enforcement and judicial system not to prosecute anyone over the crime? How cynical should we be? Because at some point, if you assume this is how things work in this country now, there’s no point in doing anything other than capitulating.
There is a thread I sense in the thrashing of Parler – an intense dislike or even hatred of Dan Bongino. This hurts Bongino therefore serves them right… We are very, VERY good at eating our own.
I don’t get the Bongino hate. I know Sundance went round and round with him on twitter about the privacy issue. My understanding was the phone number was to keep the left wing mob and bots off the site by making them accountable. I can listen to about ten minutes of his podcasts before he devolves into repetitiveness. But he is a pro Trumper, former SS and NYC cop..so he does have some unique perspective amongst the podcaster sphere.
Tad of reality here. Who has more available legal funds, Goliath Amazon or “David”Parler? Who has the ability to judge shop and/or influence judge?
Parler has sued Amazon. If this ever goes to trial, it would be years from now. Amazon will be able to delay this for years and find a judge to assist. Way too late for Parler.
Gab was lucky to have been kicked off by Amazon earlier. That gave them time to be self sufficient. At the precise moment an alternative was needed, they were ready and robust
.
I suspect there are other ways Big Tech can attack Gab. For now they are in the game.
If Parler can find a temporary host quick enough to get back in the game while they try to get self sufficient remains to be seen. Once people get comfortable with a competitor, it will be very difficult to get users to switch.
Amazon is evil, yes. But I think Parler missed its moment.
Please, everyone, understand this isn’t because “they don’t like you.” Only little people operate under these terms. This is the thinking of foot soldiers and useful idiots.
How many hate Trump for reasons which are actually lies? LOTS. LOTS of people hate Trump because of lies they were told and lies they believe.
These people in big business have skins thicker than this. They operate based off of other things and other motivations and other influences. The connection between Amazon and China is well established.
They don’t hate us… at least that’s not the reason they hate their customers. They do it mostly because China wants it. Because China demands it. And they comply. Every business complies even when it visibly destroys their own credibility.
Biden will be the first dementia patient President that was elected to step down shortly after inauguration and make Kamala President because she had no chance of winning herself. She was polling at 8%.
Kamala/ Pelosi. Frauds.
I knew after SC that Biden was a Trojan Horse, stalking for a radical candidate who could NEVER withstand the scrutiny of a long, transparent presidential campaign.
Its fraud upon fraud
Biden is the elites way of thumbing their noses at us and letting us know that our votes don’t count. And guess what, they don’t, thanks to the uniparty and the fake Supreme Court. The Republic is over. Just try and find a way to survive the great demise.
I agree with your comments, Sundance. I could tell a few days ago this guy Matze was not up to the challenge. He was on Parler talking about how they were number 1 in the app store. I responded, telling him they were going to destroy everything he built if he did not take it seriously, stop being nice and prepare for war. At least he’s suing them and I believe will (at least) get damages.
But I would also caution you to not get so smug. I notice you use CloudFlare. CloudFlare has banned websites from it’s service before. All it takes is for the media to push the narrative that 1 single shooter visited this website and get them to shut you down again. And that’s just where they begin. Once the blood is in the water.. they go after the host, your name, your banking, your billing, everything.
We’re going to figure our way around all of this, it’s just going to take some time. But I think it’s important to give people time to adapt to our new world. We’re going to need brave people in technology to step forward, and help. I hope they do.
Cloudfare only carries the Cache…. not the site.
Is Mark Meadows a traitor? Listen to this “What Really Happened In The Oval Office”
https://rumble.com/vc40bd-patrick-byrne-what-really-happened.html
Talk about laugh……
Now the neo-marxist left has got the Presidency, Fox can look after its ratings.
Ignore them please.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/fox-news-moving-martha-maccallum-3pm-slot-7pm-slot-filled-conservative-opinion-show/
That’s nap time. Cancel your cable.
Ayn Rand had it about right when writing in the ‘50’s. John Galt and the rest of the industrial entrepreneurs of their community simply stopped investing and producing for their dystopian totalitarian country which had drifted so far out of touch with the people that passive civil disobedience to the “new normal” was appropriate for liberty.
With Ayn Rand, government and industry were independent of each other. The thing she didn’t predict was that gubmint and industry are joined with an unbreakable bond………maybe govt and industry read Rand too and decided to join each other.
This is why they (Apple, Amazon, Google, ect) are Communistic.
Thank you, Sundance! I appreciate your hard and diligent work in every aspect of this site, and the the diligent and hard work of the admins and anyone else who may be working behind the scenes.
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Next areas of attack: banking, video conferencing, accounting software. I suppose it is an endless list.
When Cyprus was going through an invasion (not sure if that’s the right term) overnight on a weekend the government confiscated ALL banking accounts and left the people zero money.
What is the possibility that is gonna happen here?
Yes and an apparatchik by the name of David Gilbert of VICE News is celebrating that Parler was hacked and its’ users information was stolen to be used to “expose and arrest pro-Trump ‘rioters”. He’s using the typical false narrative demonization’s that Parler users are extremists and QAnon adherents that profess hate speech and anti-Semitism. You see David Gilbert of VICE News can spew hate speech and anti-Semitism because he’s on the side of his totalitarian overlords who fund and protect his platform of defamation and propaganda. Anyone offering up the truth and immutable facts that go along with it are being viciously attacked, censored and unpersoned by these genocidal, evil cowards.
What they don’t know however due to their own protected bubble echo chamber is that an increasing majority of Americans now truly and rightfully hate the global collectivist death cult because they are behaving like a death cult. Because what we’re seeing be revealed are the disciples of every global collectivist death cult that has ever existed such as the German National Socialist Party (1933-1945), the Soviet Socialists of Russia (1917-1991) and their current mentor, the Chinese Communist Party which has murdered millions since its inception in 1949 in China.
Amazon shutting down Parler all seems like free advertising for Parler. No media is talking about other alternatives to Twitter and Facebook. Gab, CloutHub and others. One of these days Amazon will allow Parler to function and everyone will be trying to join up. Didn’t Sundance say Parler is collecting data probably for an establishment republican such as Nikki Haley?
Yes it is free advertisement. If they ever are able to better protect their product. It’s also advertisement as to why you don’t give over biometric data like Parler wanted from its users. Exactly why I don’t give them any other “verification” then my personal E-Mail. Exactly why you and anybody shouldn’t. The obvious naiveté of the Parler CEO John Matze on the Tucker Carlson Tonight Show was astounding too. I never signed up for Twitter, I deleted my ten year Facebook account a month ago, and two of my other three social media accounts I signed up using only my E-Mail never get comments because nobody sees them even before they were hacked and taken down. Because I only give my E-Mail and no other “verification” credentials of biometric data to these guys for their ‘checkmarks’, ‘badges’ to be able let others see your comments there. Not a good business model. Just a way to ‘brand’ people and then unperson those whose brand is to be targeted for deletion by those Deep State apparatchiks like Nikki Haley.
Yes….but
The probability is high that there are “troll” accounts at CTH. Screen scraping is still an option. Simply builing a list of identifiers and then conducting sophisticated I-Net searches is an option. Hacking backend DBs is also an option. Is your ISP backdooring your IP to the Federales?
You want anonymity? Then there is some research and reconfiguring in order.
It’s all one big sea of data end-to-end. Plenty pools to fish from to capture data associated with a session.
Think your browser is secure? Thinkj again – and what persistent data it stores.
Want anonymity? You want true anonymity? Then get off their internet, their world wide web. Put that cellphone down. Only that can limit the gathering of data into your dossier. Everything else is just attempting to make it harder to track down your IP address, and the internet is forever. Anyone who really wants to find who and where you are will eventually, no matter what do just that. But if you can’t identify “troll” accounts then you have no discernment. What CTH ‘account’? All you give here is a valid E-Mail account and a user name. If you don’t think the Artificial Intelligence inside their several Quantum Super Intelligence Computers can’t identify or find your current location while connected to their networks in any way then you truly live in a delusional existence.
Maybe.
Lest you forghet…..Quantom mechanics is based on probability. I get the Dumb and Dumber part of the conversation (“So there’s a chance?!”).
It’s not a binary problem with a binary solution space (pun intended). Encrypt with an x times 1000 length OTP using a proven algorithm. It’s a tradeoff; a cost function.
Thanks for the lecture. Not very edifying. But thanks just the same.
Why did they use Amazon? Don’t underestimate the allure of convenience. I don’t give credit to the people behind Parler for being smart.
If they were smart, they would have decentralized the entire thing and put everything behind reverse proxy servers to obfuscate their actual hosting locations.
The pirate bay has been online for DECADEs helping people to pirate software and entertainment media. The US Government has been failing to take them down for as long. What does THAT tell you? It tells you it can be done and they aren’t doing it.
That there is value in monitoring?
Not a big fan of Parler but they should do what they need to to keep going
Can we host Parlor like Rosetta@Home. I have a 8 core dell, 3.9ghz 48gb ram, server in my basement (done ask). I would be happy to let Parlor use some of my bandwith.?
Tucker,
You had a chance to show evidence of election fraud to millions of viewers from November 3 to January 6 but you refused. Now you will have to deal with the onslaught of the Communist purge.
That video brought tears. It should settle all the empty promises out there of some kind of last minute miracle to keep President Trump in office. As much as I wish that could happen, I settled my heart in favor of President Trump and his family. He and all of his family must be exhausted. I am not sure the throngs of evil people, filled with so much hate toward him, including people far too physically close to him, would allow him to live through another four years. I hope he can settle somewhere safe and enjoy his family and the rest of his life in peace.
I will never stop trying to find a way to do something, as much as I can, to bring a nonviolent fight against the evil they are bringing against America. I will never give up trying!
Sundance, don’t be too hard on the decision making process that the Parler exec’s used, it was based on normal, everyday good-faith that’s been the hallmark for centuries. What was done is not only criminal but undermines so many things we take for granted in the business community. These folks either get sued & pay through the nose in punitive damages (maybe even jail time) or we as the United States of America go swirling down the toilet. Am praying for the former.
interesting that parler has a wiki page, yet john matze does not. the site lists someone named ‘Rebekah Mercer’ as the deep-pocket investor behind parler. it directs you to a CNN business site for additional information. she’s the daughter of billionaire hedge fund manager robert mercer.
i remain skeptical of parler.
if it were me, and i owned twitter, i would have provided the seed money for parler myself. it’s known as market diversification. think GM owns chevy and buick. GM doesn’t care which one you buy!
You are more correct than you may know.
Technoids are everywhere. You have my word on that.
““A group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. ….Turns out it was all of the security authentications that were used to register a user. This allowed anyone to create a user, and not have to verify an email address, and immediately have a logged-on account…. Well, because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to deliver content — ALL CONTENT….”
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/all-parlers-data-are-belong-to-them.html
This was planned. Deliberate. imo And Matze is stupid. Really stupid.
It doesn’t take long, but it does take some time to upload all that data to their cloud – you all are intimately familiar with that – and Matze left his backdoor WIDE open.
How could anyone in their right mind not go after Matze;s data? Of course they will.
To quote a famous Speaker of the House – “People will do what they do.”
They should have stayed with p2p (torrenting) and blockchain. imo
And so it goes.
H/T Fred over at Col Lang’s https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2021/01/news-updates-from-inside-the-forbidden-city.html#more
and Wooley, who introduced me to Voxday Populi
This is not over. Not by a long shot.
Not over
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https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/01/12/308745-n308745 : “Apple, when it was leveling its decision to delist Parler from its app store, explained in their decision that this was due to the fact that Parler was responsible for the content that appeared on its platform.”
As this article points out – contradictory arguments for social media sites and their responsibility for content. Also the specious argument by facebook that ‘at least we have guidelines for proper posts’ even if the enforcement of said guideline errs (is biased).
The hypocrisy can work in the political arena, but in business law it would seem obvious that AWS can not deplatform Parler and not twitter. That the Section 230 argument either applies across the board or not. What is the action item to enforcment? FTC on the face. DOJ?
Sickening
This poor lady got shut down November 4th, the tech a-holes were just itching to drop the hammer on any patriotic American.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-bans-retailer-pro-america-products
I apologize for being off topic .I’d have to search back for a few weeks if not months to the election but why wasn’t there a recount for Georgia’s two senate seats . And was nothing changed from the first election mess .Were ballots delivered in the middle of he night? When that election was over, everyone just gave up .Maybe thay could have rescued one seat . We couldn’t have found our own full drop boxes ? Our own extra ballots?
I am glad you no longer use disqus..i used them for years and then automatically they started requiring me to resubmit yet when i did they would not accept my pw and when i signed on for a n ew one they did not accept that..after numerous attempts gave up. WP same thing…had to re-sign up and after numerous ’gotcha’ attempts they were not satisfied and didn’t accept me…so i gave up. Not sure if this will get thru.
Free speech only in a free society. CIA Dir. Colby “CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” CIA Dir. Casey “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
If Biden installed & communists controlling WH/Congress/DOJ/FBI/Courts/… all future elections hoax gets much more sophisticated no fix possible; Think Telex = Dominion in 4yrs Ai progress = Deja Vu (2006).
Just wanted to let you all know that there is going to be a FB shut down by it’s users starting tomorrow the 15th @7am for 24 hours to boycott the censorship of FB! Please help by boycotting to show we the people will not stand for these big corporation censoring or freedom of speech!