According to numerous media reports Amazon is no longer going to allow Parler to run from its Web Hosting Servers, which means deplatforming the Parler Website effective midnight Sunday. The CEO of Parler responds:
It is a little surprising that Parler was using Amazon servers to host it’s platform considering the obvious ideological risks involved. However, given the Mercer financial backing behind Parler, and considering there is a background data-collection system, perhaps that surprise factor is slightly diminished. Dance within an ideological system and there is always a risk the music will stop.
The efforts of Big Tech continue unabated by any regulatory agency….
It would be interesting know if Twitter in any way influenced Amazon.
Bezos do something with Dorsey in a crony way towards a partisan agenda? Perish the thought
Funny you say “perish” when people keep buying produce from the cock-eyed bald freak’s grocery stores.
Well, that was an interesting place for the hyphen. 😉
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Ever since the Bezos dic#-pic scandal, I can only see a dic# when a photo of the creep is shown.
Don’t judge me.
I wonder if the smartphone readers can appreciate this. 😀
Got rid of the apple phone today. My cell provider’s only other option was samsung. At least its not a rotted apple.
That’s good. I think Samsung is one of the few options for a phone not made in China. I think most of theirs are made in Viet Nam or India.
Google controls android/Samsung phones.
Google provides the operating system, Android. Samsung manufactures the hardware.
If you need a smart phone check out the new Blackberry due out this month. I know it is not made in China, but forgot where. Not a Chinese company unlike the last version. It also has a lot of security features like the old Blackberry. Also physical keyboard. Worth a look if you want the technology still.
Thanks. I’ll look into it. I am also considering a Linux smart phone.
Google controls android phones. This is going from the frying pan into the fire.
Other than one on-line game via Google, I have uninstalled most everything else. Use Samsung services, and DucDuckGo as search engine. Then bookmark everything so I don’t have to use an app.
I’ve never owned an Apple, ditched Microsoft everything years ago, and have had Samsung phones and tablets for 6 years. I have no idea what I am missing, and am a happy little clam with my Samsung 10+ 4G cutie. (10+ is the larger screen).
There is NOTHING smart about a “smart-phone”. Get a flip phone. You’ll thank me later
See if you have access to Republic Wireless.
Another MVNO on T-Mobile/Sprint network
Also, Android phones only are allowed. Android is Google.
https://bestmvno.com/mvnos/republic-wireless
Dang it!!! You people are good. I fell off my chair ROTFLOLOLOLOLOLOLing!!!!
When that story about the exhibitionist came out I realized that symbol for his company, that’s him, putting his privates on every package for the world to see.
…huh…
I just tried to put “cock-eyed” at the end of a line, and though it breaks up the word in the edit window, it preserves the whole word on the next line, in the published version…
huh…verry in-terr-est-ing…but…(hee-hee)
Buying local produce and farmers markets is a way to support farmers. They make nothing selling to supermarkets.
No hyphens here.
Oh, darn darn darn (channeling Fred Gwynne there)…you didn’t even try putting in a hyphen…at least I tried
(hee-hee-hee)
Dropped off bags of winter clothing at a Church thrift store in town yesterday. The thrift store/cottage now comprises 3 buildings, and the parking lots were jammed, and a long line of people waiting to get in. They only let a few in at a time, masks mandetory. People are hurting folks, already.
Across the side street from the thrift store complex is the parking lot for the main church. They had a farmers’ market….huge….crowded. They were parking a few blocks away and walking to the market. And something I’ve never seen in our little, (if you blink your eyes, you will have driven through one end to the other) town are cops directing traffic, right next the the newly installed, and only, stoplight.
There are a lot of people already shopping local. Thank God we live in a semi-rural area on the West Coast of FL, where produce is plentiful.
And I had such a good feeling dropping all those bags of winter clothes off. There already is a need.
And if y’all are in a giving mood, drop your items off to Church or small non-profit thrifts.
Other than Salvation Army, (which we do not have near us) I will no longer give to the larger non-profits where executives skim larger than life salaries.
Also, to sum up, a lot of people were shopping local, and not Amazon.
Ya think?
I do not think there’s even a question there. It is well coordinated and a liberal hive mind.
It will probably get worse. This is the cutting the power stage. Need to fight this in the light with facts truth and perserverance. The plotters of this information coup are afraid they act quick, they are bound to mess up. They have to.
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348140708285222913
Yeah, well if Gab hires those “senior-level” lefties, they’ll get more of the same. Watch the hires.
My opinion, they should learn to work an “essential job” like at a convenience store.
Any communication platform that allows likes, up votes, followers, friends or any other dopamine inducing system should be shunned.
After 20 years of watching these reward and clout building systems I have yet to see one do more good than harm in the long run.
You are so right about the dopamine.
I hear Homer Simpson: “Mmmm…dopamine!”
Do you mean platforms like this one where you have 3 upvotes? I had recommended when they were first setting up the site that if they allowed up votes, they should also allow down votes.
@MG
Doesn’t the Treehouse allow likes?
Bingo. Don’t allow your company to be colonized by leftists.
In the words of BHO, maybe they should learn to code…oh wait
With the word Traitor tattooed on the forehead.
oh sure, put them in a critical position like that, where people are confronted with them on a daily, intimate basis…
Aiee ! (primal scream, you know…from ancient times)
I agree. Why hire them? They need to stand up and speak out. Why only leave now? What’s to stop them from getting inside Gab and undermine it? I would not trust them.
Why would you assume all or even most of Silicon Valley employees are rabid leftists? There are probably as many conservative and independents as there is in the general population. It’s just that rabid leftists are the one’s the yell and make demands. Conservatives tend to just leave rather than fight.
Some truth to that. The guy that runs Brave is the guy that was kicked out of Mozilla (Firefox) essentially for having his own opinions as a conservative and Christian. Brave HQ is in San Francisco.
Just removed firefox as my server and added Brave this morning!
Here’s hoping some of those lefties who lose their cushy jobs have to try to find new employment with a company that got de-platformed or censored by them. Good luck with that.
I hope Gab, drops all resumes into the circular file.
Those Senior Big Tech level employees are the very people who controlled the shadow banning and shutting down of accounts at Twitter and other social media.
It would be a very stupid thing to hire them in my opinion. This would be inviting spies and Big Tech operatives into Gab operations that would sabotage or undermine efforts to maintain free speech.
Check with Project Veritas first
—from Newsweek
A legislative counsel member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned Friday that the suspension of President Donald Trump‘s social media accounts wielded “unchecked power,” by Twitter and Facebook.
Kate Ruane, a senior legislative counsel at the ACLU said in a statement that the decision to suspend Trump from social media could set a precedent for big tech companies to silence less privileged voices.
That’s actually a bit of a shocker, considering how lefty the ACLU is in general!
That tells me the recent censorship by big tech is not ok with many, many people. That’s good. I assumed all liberals would be happy with it. Maybe I’m wrong? I can’t confirm because I’ve closed FB and the only liberal friends I have in my real life are truly kind people.
A broken clock (ACLU) is right twice a day.
If it is an exodus of people that disagree with the current policies of censorship, maybe we will see some more competition show up.
From necessity is born competition.
Unfortunately, there will be a % of people who will “obey” and cling to Twitter, will do anything for their iPhones, pads and Microsoft products. They will fold, beg, and pray they won’t be cut out of the cool, team.
Or, the are afraid to give up their pacifiers.
Before Parlef went down last night, there was a collage of pictures of a naked Malia Obama and Hunter doing coke and having sex. The poster said they were from Hunter’s laptop, and there were many more to come. Wonder if Hunter was blackmailing the Obamas?
Anyway, not long after that around 1AM, the site went down.
There is a real sex pic of Hunter but I think the black woman is just some prostitute or hoe. Th Obama part is an embellishment.
Competition is what we’ll get regardless. The are over 74 million of us. Seriously, who among us goes to the propagandists for there news? There’s so many sites now to get information and they will continue to grow. The legacy media will wither and die on the vine.
Censorship is only going to work in the short term of a few weeks, which may be all they want, but the long term damage to their business models is yet to be seen. These are publicly traded companies and the shareholders should make their voices heard. Go woke, go broke!
PRAY that this is God’s way to end the blight in California and across the nation.
Trojan horses… take no prisonners!
jx, I suspect all Big Tech participate in an echo chamber (Parler pun), just as the MSM.
While I was surprised to hear this, Parler will work out the server hosting issues and ultimately be better off for it.
My concern is more if they attempt to interfere with the POTUS emergency communication requirements in spite of the recent reminder sent out as to what those requirements are as required by federal law.
Law? That side flouts the law and says, “What are you going to do about it?” They are not constrained by law because they never have to face the consequences.
I think POTUS will use the military emergency radio system.
And how do we receive this “military emergency radio system” ?
Cell phone. There is such a thing on bases. Remember a few years back when Trump revised and set up the new emergency alert system? EO, as I remember. And they tested it.
As I remember, this was a military emergency alert on phones and TV. It overrides everything.
That is the one I think Apple is shutting down tonight put your Iphone on manual updates…
They are all in cahoots
We have multiple billionaires who own congress who can do what they want with impunity. Somebody tell Antifa…. They do not have to worry about deep state or DOJ or FBI. Only Trump and Trump supporters have to worry.
Big Tech, Big Media do not have to worry about rule of law. Rule of law is something used on MAGA people.
There was a story that Amazonco employees were pressuring the company.
As aware as I am of all that is going on politically, I do have to say I have been amazed at how quickly this censorship shutdown has happened (even starting with the CTH)!
Has to be coordinated.
Multi Billion companies, with lawyers, risk assessment, and layers of management … had go be gaming this out. All acted within 12 hours?
Is the number 12 major tech companies are enacting The Purge?
They probably have all the story board scripts of how this plays out.
Seems very coordinated and very Chyna-like.
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1348059838551650304?s=20
Please, looking forward to it
Well Dr.Shiva ,it is called Protonmail.com and is hosted in Switzerland and is secure and does not snoop on your email.
Switzerland the home of ‘Bank of Settlement,s’ the banker,s bank and LSD that Switzerland?
“Switzerland?!” Did somebody say “Switzerland”!?
Slowly I turned…step by step…inch by inch…
I’m glad you caught that, as did I, instantly…”foreign interference”, “foreign manufacture of a critical industry” anybody?
Switzerland…European Union…Aiee!…talk about compromised.
But first chuckle of the day, mungral; thank you very much. seriously…”Switzerland”…sheesh
Haven’t thought of The Bowery Boys in ages. Such a fun show for Saturday mornings.
I don’t believe that Switzerland is a member of the EU. Not that it is safe, but it is separate.
The one where UBS bank is 75% owned by the CCP. The bank that wired $400M from CN to Dominion in Sept.
Protonmail is good, ditch Gmail.
Ooh, attaboy Dr Shiva.
We don’t need no stinking MSM, big tech, big business, big pharma, big anything. We need big thinking patriots to industriously build out the new 21st century “Wild West”. It will be beautiful, with no safe space for the weirdo’s!
For those of us who have de-platformed or have been launched by Twitter, please post images of Tweets (er Or is that not possible on the new CTH platform? Oh well. )
The responses to the shiva tweet are interesting and great because they reflect our side. Also of note was from whom the responses came.
I’m convinced Big Tech is playing a dangerous game.
Dangerous Game, you write. And add, Big Tech will run up the score!
Carry on Doctor!
The Insane Left is a cult, it came into power with Obama. The cult is, metaphorically speaking, a hive of killer bees, instantly swarming at every opportunity (which they make up themselves)…
The Insane Left existed long before Obama. His presidency simply inspired them to come out into the open.
Does it surprise anyone that the corrupt political system that IMPEACHED President Trump just for sniffing around Joe Biden’s Ukraine corruption now has the power to purge the internet of all voices of dissent?
It’s not dissent its a Constitutional effort to count all legal votes and let We the people choose representation.
If you are already talking about dissent you are starting to parrot the narrative of the left. Have to be careful.
The government has been overthrown. That might seem exaggerated but consider what has happened. A private organization, the Democratic Party, executed a campaign to debase election systems, then exploited the debased systems to give the appearance of victory. States were not prepared for the attack and reacted in disorganized ways. Courts have avoided redress apparently fearful of a fictitious number of voters’ reaction. When challenges to electors were made by representatives self-serving senators rejected the challenges, they are more interested in preserving their chummy clique.
There has been a complete breakdown in law. Crimes have been committed by elections officials and workers, as well as by state supreme court judges. These crimes have enabled a private organization to enforce their choice over that of the people. It has enabled a private organization to sweep away the will of the people by diluting their votes with a sea of illegitimate ballots and corrupted processes.
The government has been overthrown, it is now an subsidiary of the Democratic party. This can not stand.
My name is Inigo Montoya, and I do not think “government” means what you think it does. The government was overthrown, entirely broken, with the introduction of Obama as President (and the transformation of the Democrat party into the Insane Left) in 2008. We haven’t had a legitimate government, aside from the Herculean efforts of President Donald Trump, since then…nor a sane public discourse, on their part.
After Obama’s victory, I texted to friends: ”This is the end of America as you know it!”
Very well put.
Yes, we are under totalitarian Democommunism.
Of maximum importance and missing from your description, j x, is recognition of the stark reality that the Democrat Party did not accomplish this overthrow without the help, and the blessing, of Republicans: elected, appointed, and hired.
The only Republicans I continue to trust belong to the Freedom Caucus in the House. My own Congressman is one of them, and he tore the place apart during his allotted 5 minutes of floor time on Wednesday. Comparable to and as well stipulated as the declarations of Rep. Matt Gaetz of FL. were those of PA Congressman & Nat. Guard Brig. General, Scott Perry.
Right now, I’m leaning more for support, trust, and hope on his continuing service in the Guard rather than on his minority position in the Houz of Nanxi, who is behaving as if “her Majority” grew, rather than forcibly throttled back.
“rather than being forcibly throttled back.” Even as a vigilant proof-reader, I screw up.
BINGO!
Looks like FB and Twitter’s act of pulling down news reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop were just a dress rehearsal for the current purge.
Well if there is a bright side the covid fear porn seems to be put on hold.
Yesterday I heard no-balls walz, gubner of Minnesotastan, is lifting much of his lock-down mandate starting today.
And just like that, the left kills the country and does whatever they want with whatever they want.
He’s not letting go of his powers until the state legislature makes most of those powers into law. Including requiring masks in public areas and businesses. “Make my executive powers into laws so I can relinquish my executive powers.”
F*** you Walz, you petty little fat tyrant!!! I call him Tim Jong Un, he is portly and round like little rocket man. I’m getting out of this s-hole state by hook or by crook.
I didn’t even hear anything about the “insurrectionists” not wearing masks but I suppose someone was complaining.
There’s a Conservative Treehouse on Parler, Sundance – is it real?
I would guess no. Sundance and Bongino had a public falling out on the Twit a little while ago….
Bongino is an invester not owner of Parler, I keep seeing this he has nothing to do with site other than he is on it.
Maybe if some of us go on Gab or Parler we can make our profile pic be of trees, any kind of trees, so we know each other is a treeper..or have you pic have trees in it somehow..
Whatever shall we do?
Smoke signals and carrier pigeons.
Ok, then I’m good.
I have a Quaker Parrot, but I don’t think it will cross picket lines to serve as a carrier pigeon. ?
Can’t it self-identify?
Peoria, you are on a roll tonight! ???
Sadly, Kiki the Parrot has no desire to be a pigeon. Pigeons have had bad press for years, difficult to overcome.
and those Quakers tend to be pacifists
…well, can it talk, or can’t it? That’s what’s important. Asking for a friend…
Sorry, I like to make fun by channeling the insanity of the public discourse, you know…YOU KNOW?!…good grief, man, tell me you know!***
***from “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”…good lord man, do you have hold of the stick?!…
In the old days we used comment sections. The Bush era anti war movement managed pretty well without social media. Smaller groups of like minded people where it was much easier to ID infiltrators of China’s 50 cent Army.
Good idea.
sleigh bells ring, are ya lis’nin…
To be honest it was a bit of a weakness on Parler part to rely on AWS infrastructure / Amazon Servers. They could have logically seen this coming. Any ready-made turn key cloud solution is off the table. Have to build it from the hardware up.
TCH being thrown off WordPress was already foreboding.
We have to go back to the Internet as it was. Raw servers on raw pipes, stationed in countries that have open policies.
Using these “platforms” and infrastructure is oh-so convenient but you are at the mercy of the people who write the usage policy. In this case they want you to parrot their opinion.
Oh and on the consumer side use VPN services, as no doubt commie style DNS blocking is next. Tor browser for multiple re-routing.
If they can’t control the infrastructure they will put the squeeze on the providers.
There is already a Dark Web for backroom stuff. I feel the Internet as it was in inception with “Free Speech” is going to be pushed to the back in DarkWeb style (Call it ConservativeWeb) requiring special clients and tricks to access.
The Commie Web – the internet that you see with Facebook, Amazon, WordPress.com – etc. parotting the uni party narratives. For real news you’d have to browse the ConservativeWeb with VPN, and collocated servers. Good luck to us all.
“If they can’t control the infrastructure…”
Recent events indicate they have perfected or are hard at work to do so.
Citizen Free Press has had huge issues as well…
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/they-can-never-purge-cfp-nation-cfp-is-back-and-better-than-ever/
Open policies? After this monstrous bill just passed…and free money to other countries? You know there are strings attached. (For instance, gender studies in a country that clearly hates women and gays?).
Hardworking American citizens have once again, been shellacked.
I could see (the possibility of) this coming 40 years ago. Proprietary software, a la Windows…anybody remember Windows?…the entire system was corrupt from the very beginning.
Wait a minute…you don’t LIKE the internet, do you? Aiee! (yes, yes, I’m kidding…I am Groot)
Perhaps the release of the latest Purge movie was a warning to us…
The Pentagon is going to move their data onto the Big Tech cloud rather than building their own.
Should about as safe there as a small child in the presence of Hunter or joe Biden.
Remember that news article on Mattis touring Amazon HQ to offer them a defense contract!
At least Microsoft won that defense contract and not AWS. Though I do not think you’re going to be safe on Azure in the long term either.
Microsoft seems to be the least fanatic of the bunch but still they lean left.
I think its a mistake really. Your company should provide a service. Its like the Washington Post objecting that I put it in the kitty litter as it’s not fair use of their newspaper. (That was a joke – I dont read the WP. My cat doesnt like it :-D)
Try it as liner for a bird cage. Birds aren’t as discriminating as cats about what they poop on.
MS won’t get too stupid. Too many business have the abilities to replace them quickly now.
…too late…
“The efforts of Big Tech continue unabated by any regulatory agency….”
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Yup.
Grace to you and yours.
Ditto. Thank you, most appropriate, Dear Infidel
Sure seems like a massive, coordinated overreach to me – begging for an antitrust lawsuit? No lawyer here.
China Biden DOJ unlikely to move… could private individuals sue?
They control he judges look at the Flynn case, it won’t matter
They shut down Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch, he is a lawyer. I think we are past law suits?
No offense to Judicial Watch or Tom Fitton, but he is not a lawyer.
What is he?
Most courts and government offices are still in some kind of lockdown mode. The “workers “ get paid and do nothing.
Plus, 99% of judges are corrupt, top to bottom
My nephew’s divorce is in limbo, everything is done except the Judge signing it off. Courts are closed where he lives. Where I live they are working on a murder trail, but can’t present it to the court. Meanwhile criminals are being left out of jail. Life is so grand!
Fitton isn’t a lawer
So I am learning, I thought he was since they are always filing.
I don;t think people can sue on this.
Do you ever wonder what is in those pages and pages of end user agreements? You know, that everyone presses “agree” on.
It is right in there. You basically rent their platform and they have a say in what you can install on it.
Only was is to not rely on pre-made stuff, and build your own. Sure that is more expensive but the only way to ensure nobody controls what you run on your computer.
Interesting fact: Technically you rent Windows 10 as well. Maybe time to dust off the old open source Linux installations.
My son-in-law put Linux on my daughter’s last laptop. It lasted 14 years.
In fact, he used to resurrect laptops by installing Linux.
The technical term for “pre-made stuff” is “proprietary software”. See my other comment on this. I saw this coming back in 1980…really. The shadow of Windows was recognizable from its beginning, from the days of MS-DOS, Bill Gates’s first proprietary invasion of computers.
Relying on proprietary software, making employees learn it and no other, is an example of how science has become a producer of mere technicians, working on the “consensus”, instead of real scientists, working on exposing the truth. I say this as a real scientist (think Einstein, Newton, and Galileo), from before the Great Fall…
FB owns all your photos.
Yeah. Or tortious interference.
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Apple is going to do an update on all phones to shut off the emergency broadcast system. This is Nazi Germany 1938
Turn your auto update toggle off.
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Sydney echoed Wood’s message – Apple to disable EMS tonite.
DIsable auto update on your phones pronto,
God bless you all.
Devin Nunes has Setup text alert subscription. Text FREEDOM to 98078
Info is in his Parler account. Won’t be there long
This is Devin Nunes on Redstate with how to get onto his alerts list.
https://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=179249
I got Lincoln and CBS eye, but the others were blank. Here not there, I turned off auto update.
I have a top of the line 4s, it’s great and when they decide to shut it down then I’ll start using cans and a string.
That is my favored approach also. Thanks for playing, guys…
All the more reason to have Android.
Oops, that’s what I have…I don’t know how to use it, it’s overwhelming and lots of unnecessary stuff, for me…so my phone isn’t vulnerable to what is scaring these other guys?
Just another instance of God protecting me…and not to exert myself over “pissant” (that’s French, never mind) worries.
Hee-hee-hee.
Um. For Historical Purposes and GeekSpeak points in History, data center evolution is quite interesting.
If anyone is interested in data center history, this is a fair starting point for reference purposes:
Google: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/
Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale.html
Facebook: https://www.datacenters.com/facebook-data-center-locations
The scale is amazing. Hats off to those who solve such issues. Cheers 🙂
Got any links other than Gargle, Tweedle & Fascistbook?
It’s amazing but when you use their engineering you are bound by their rules. In this case their opinion.
Convenience comes at a price.
All those progs are going to get bored talking to each other. Maybe the enviros can offer up a bunch of Greta Thunberg lectures.
how DARE you!
Hee-hee-hee!
Greta? Vomit.
On Monday everyone needs to call Amazon and let them know how we feel about this move and what we’ll do with our business.
Vote with your wallet that will be most important. Support local produce, buy American.
The call to Amazon support might be wasted effort as you probably get some rep in Badalahare, India.
Well for starters you need to cancel your prime membership.
Cancelled my Prime a couple hours ago
My Prime just renewed a couple months ago. Can you get a rebate for the remaining months?
I don’t think so. When you request a cancellation it says you will be cancelled when your subscription ends. I got lucky, as mine is late Jan
Same here
Yep, just cancelled any and all related Amazon account product services.
…You see, this is why I just don’t join ANYTHING in the first place…
Honestly, I learned that before I grew up, even…I swear, all you Joiners…
Everybody knows, NEVER VOLUNTEER…even five year olds know that (!)…even THREE year olds (!!)
hee-hee
Should have cancelled it a long time ago, but I just did a couple minutes ago.
Canceled Amazon, canceled mozilla, ditched twitter opened parlor, considering ditching facebook but sites most used are political free homestead site and animal crossing that I will miss.. hoping parler will capture like content. Trying to understand wth and onion site is and if I should use it.. this is going to require some relearning equivalent to that first big leap from aol into the www. Brave-ly I go into the murky waters of cyberspace…
I’m with you. I have no clue what I’m doing but I’ll sure try. Time to call my granddaughter.
In the good old days, when Amazon first started, I would find the product that I wanted, information on the seller and contact them directly. The companies were very appreciative of this manuever.
I won’t miss my account as I rarely used them.
That’s why i keep the account but ditch Prime. I have found really great companies this way. Same with FB !any have unwittingly turned themselves into digital share croppers. Use the platform to find them, then communicate directly.
Turned off Prime.
Lets be positive about this. Time to get neighborly.
Monthly Trump cook-out and BBQ’s. Conservative meet ups, and family gatherings
Newsflash: The young Commie’s with their “Eat the Rich” t-shirts hate Jeff Bezos.
Someone smarter than I could figure out a way to make this werk.
ChinaVirus here to stay to prevent that from happening
Where I live in Texas, we can invite friends over at our own risk. That’s what adults do.
Way to go! Too bad I’m so far would love joining! Post pics.
Hopefully, the concerted action to deplatform various people and businesses may lead to a viable antitrust case some day.
In what uncorrupted court would that take place??
Give up Prime, boycott Amazon.
Are there any more idiots here saying “they’re private companies. If you don’t like it, start your own platform”?
Don’t know who Michael Tracey is but he makes no sense. These sites are about to become echo chamber ghost towns that are as boring as can be. They’ll go the way of MySpace if people dump their addiction of them and give them the boot. They are not as powerful as you think.
agree!!
If twitter and facebook got myspaced it would awesome!
They are as powerful as people make them. Stop using them and they have no power.
PS. Michael Tracey is an actual journalist. He is a liberal.
Just think what will happen to the Commie media if they don’t have conservatives to bash.
People aren’t interested in anything the Left has to say.
As our President Trump says, the Fake News made a bundle off of him.
The only thing those sites will have left are a bunch of bubble-heads, (well, and Jeff Bezos and Geraldo Rivera) posting semi-naked selfies, and ANTIFA and BLM uglies ranting, raging, and recruiting.
And look at all those millions who left them forever, giving them the finger as the door closed, never to return. Or see one ad from their advertising.
I pray that you are right.
They are no more important than their advertising dollars,no people no advertising,professional sports ring a bell.
but if they have big government contracts … do ad dollars even matter anymore?
You are only too get so much from the trough ,also when their usefulness is not needed any more,no more money.
… well… we defeated Panzerkorps and USSR, so………
… forgot Imperial Japan!
I am also amazed how at the beginning of Trump’s presidency, access to his Tweets were so important that he was barred from blocking people from the platform, now all of his Tweets are barred by Twitter and not one court thinks those are inconsistent outcomes.
Yes I was thinking about this as well
Trump wanted to ban 1 person from Twitter => Could not do it because freedom of speech
BUT
Twitter banning Trump altogher => Perfectly fine
If that is not dual standard what is
But Buckhead (above) says Twitter isn’t important, so what’s the problem?
He is saying, Twitter doesn’t have to be important…if we all kick the habit.
so evil
Doesn’t this mean Parler won’t be able to be used on Amazon’s Kindle devices, being they use there own web providing system.
Any device that has a webbrowser would still work.
You’d have to use Parler through its web interface. Not as snazzy as app, but it will work.
Any device that can load a web browser would be able to access parler. The difference between App and mobile website arent that great in 2021 anymore as they were in 2008. So for communication should be A-Ok.
Do not use Safari, Google. Might be better of with Brave browser, or Opera used to be alright.
Amazon kindle devices are worthless anyhow. You can read a kindle book from any device now. I read kindle on my PC.
I read Kindle on my Android phone and tablet.
I have an intense distrust of apps. I have very few on my phone and no I’m going to get rid of most of them.
We were warned and told this would happen, but it is still really bizarre to witness it. I feel a type of solidarity w/the people’s of the past that have been through this in a twisted kind of way. Of course I thought it could never happen to me, now I am a declared terrorist for supporting my President. How many times have people asked how did the Jews not know?
Even though I knew it was coming, it is still very much like shell shock to believe it is real. To see the scramble of everyone trying to deal w/it. This is America, home of free speech and 400 Million were wiped off Twitter overnight, insane.
A few weeks back a friend I had not seen in years stopped by, she didn’t believe censorship was happening. I told her it is everywhere, her response was she hadn’t heard about it on the news. I literally laughed in her face, I could not help myself. I wondered this evening if she has discovered the truth, or is still in denial. My guess is she is still watching the news.
I understand your shell shock.
Grace to you and yours.
Even tho we knew we were being lied to and manipulated, the narrative still penetrated our thoughts to the point where we subconsciously went along with it OR we didn’t want to be lumped in with those tin foil hat conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones. So when Twitter banned AJ we were like, “Well you know, he is a bit ‘out there.'” And we made sure to distance ourselves mentally and emotionally . 2 years later they ban the PRESIDENT of the United States. And we did such a good job of convincing ourselves AJ was an anomaly bc he’s a crazy conspiracy theo that we are truly shocked when they collectively label us “domestic terrorists” and put us in the same basket of Deplorables that they had AJ in all along.
Most people I know have NO CLUE of what’s going on… to them, Trump is a plain madman! They couldn’t tell you ONE thing he accomplished. I can’t talk about the ongoings with anybody… that’s why I’m here. ”Refuge” is the appropriate word.
If I take a guess, the establishment mono party want to move MAGA out of the public forum and treat it as domestic terrorist group. The establishment knows rallies are Trumps biggest strength in connecting, so they need to ban him from public acceptance.
It will be a long march with facts and truth to expose these people cracking down on US free speech.
I asked the question earlier. If they mark us as terrorists, they can take our guns!
You think we are galvenized now,just try that one, they are already planning the false flag to set this up.We still out number the cops and the military. This is why Apple wants to shut off EBS and possibly internet going dark. We will find out which side the Ham community is on. I have a AM/SSB radio,350 Watt amp,and a starduster ant.
Thanks to Affordable Care Act they can label you with a mental illness and prevent you passing background checks. Even HIPPA can’t stop them. I found this out in a training at work last week. Of course it was stated more obliquely than that. This especially true if you have any form of government healthcare because the payer has access without express written consent. And the standardized coding that is also a part of that means even if you do have a copy of your rwcoreds, you need a decoder ring to understand it. Stay away from gov’t subsidized healthcare and stay away from Federally Qualified Health Centers as much as possible.
Wait until he moves permanently to Florida. Our legislature has mightily cracked down on any riots and UNPEACEFUL gatherings. In other words, antifa and BLM are unwelcomed in FL.
And if businesses, homes, people are attacked, we can use lethal force to defend ourselves and businesses.
Governor getting ready for the possibility of the. Trump’s move to FL, and the Super Bowl in Tampa.
FWIW
Lin Wood just said Apple with turn off EBS so turn off your auto update toggle.
Why are they turning off the Emergency Broadcast System??
I think they are anticipating emergency action by the President. Hence the panic in Congress.
Some on Twitter has speculated that Trump could use EBS to get around Big Tech censors and talk directly with Americans.
My guess would be to shut off (even further) President Trump’s ability to reach us.
Where was all this outrage when GAB was deplatformed by its host? Where was all the anger when GAB was removed from the Apple and Google store two years ago? Where was all the free speech concerns when VISA banned GAB using its merchant system? There was none. But the same things are happening now to Parler, a social platform owned by GOP Establishment billionaires, and everybody goes batsheet crazy.
Well it looks like GAB is having the last laugh, because they began preparing for the Great Purge years ago and built their federalize platform from the ground up, which includes owning their own servers. Wake up people! It’s not a coincidence that all of the GOPe celebrities and talking heads have gone to Parler – and are asking you to follow them. It’s no coincidence that Parler demands your phone number when opening an account.
GAB is the only platform actually dedicated to free speech.
I think I joined Gab a long time ago. Haven’t been there in ages, looks like the site has really grown! The functionality seems much closer to Twitter; Parler is clunky slow and somewhat cumbersome. Trying to reset my password there now.
There weren’t enough people on GAB at that time to notice. Many of us were only on Twitter to follow President Trump.
Yes I registered there false phone number and fake email. From looking around it has all the wrong people there. I noticed Catturd is on Gab.PS Parler has this captcha after you login,stupid
https://parler.com/assets/SVG/new-badges/00.svg President Trump News
2 hours ago ·4.8k
@ PresidentTrumpNews
ALL MEMBERS OF THE @presidenttrumpnews MANAGEMENT TEAM HAVE JUST CLOSED THEIR AMAZON AMAZON CREDIT CARD/AMAZON ACCOUNTS. WHEN ASK FOR REASON STATE ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH/PARLER
How many people here own a paper map, and know how to read it?
Me, 100%. Old school
Me too!
Even use a real compass.
DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteers fan here. I was ridiculed for purchasing the Ohio one when I was in Dayton (March 2016) with Carl Paladino’s NYer’s for Trump volunteers.
“We have GPS on our phones, they chimed”.
Heading back all the phone’s batteries were DEAD, compliments of the power hungry canvassing apps.
That paper got us back to the hotel, otherwise we would have been going the wrong way down an Interstate just for starters…
Saw the rally in the airplane hanger. I was about 20 feet from the fellow that jumped the barricade and rushed the stage.
Hey, DI, I’m a DeLorme Gazetteer fan, too! I consider those things ESSENTIAL!
Same here!
old school map person here..have that GPS stuff on phones and now in the new car..never used..probably never will..it is always taking you around robin’s red barn to get anywhere..usually wrong!!! or off a bridge!!
We’re literally having this conversation over the internet. I can use a map. The remember making copies on a mimeograph machine, cranking out those stinky papers. It’s great to remember how to use old technology, but you wouldn’t want to go to war with a single shot musket.
AAA and Rand McNally. For Southern California, I had 15 separate AAA fold up maps in my glove compartment.
Absolutely! Several years ago while driving home from vacation in Florida traffic was stopped for hours heading north on 75 heading to 10. I got the AAA maps out, found a small county road that would take us west and connect with a more coastal road north to connect with 10 in a different spot. GPS wouldn’t offer any other options. We ended up enjoying going through all of the small towns.
Have maps and know how to use them.
Can read and write cursive.
Can tie my shoes.
Can read a clock with hands and know what Roman numerals are.
Know how to address a letter and where a stamp goes on the envelope.
Know how to make change and do so in my head before the machine gives an answer to the clerk.
I’m sure there’s a lot more people can add to the list of simple problem solving/doing things our uneducation system stopped teaching years ago.
Raven,
The sad thing about your list is the number of people that can actually do all of them is dwindling.
I get a kick out of giving additional cash after the original amount is entered on the register and seeing how clueless the clerk is.
Drive a stick shift and read and write shorthand.
My nephew moved to Alaska and from time to time I will send him a card. He did not to check his mail box for the longest time, everything he does is online. Finally I texted him and asked if he had received anything from me. Now that he has his own place he has learned to check his mailbox. I made fun of him, then realized it isn’t funny because there are more out there like him.
I always keep an updated road map in my vehicle’s glove box. Have done so since I started driving at 16. I can read a compass, too. Of course the map hasn’t been used in years but if need be I can navigate it.
We used to travel for months each year in our RV. My husband insisted on relying on the Garmin. Through the years, he was thankful wifey had her paper maps on her lap, and had plotted the routes we would take the night before.?
Same thing when we were boaters. I relied on charts…they kept us out of many a dangerous area that the electronics failed to warn.
Have gone back to keeping records, etc., address books, phone numbers, everything, on paper and in file folders. Removing as much info as I can off of tablet and phone. Started doing this a year ago. Who woulda thought this might be important?
Yes that is something folks need to be doing, pulling phone numbers and address off their phones and putting them on paper.
As SD said, there’s Trillions at stake. Main Street verses Wall Street. Eagle vs. Red Dragon. Deep state vs citizens and Congressional indulgences.
Those Trillions include the unholy alliance over half of US Corporations sending their manufacturing to China where labor is less than 1/3 of US cost. Over half of big box items are made in China for US Corporations.
Since late 70’s our labor was exported, 40 years later our freedoms are about to be nulled as well.
The only thing is: these are Trillions that are paid by .. drum rol.. the tax payer. Meaning: you.
That is you and your children, and your childrens children.. Liberalism only works while you can spend other people’s money. They want to keep the right to spend your money indiscriminately. The people are knocking on the Washington door now to have some say in how it gets spent.
Wallstreet doesnt like the gravy train changing tracks.
I wanna know where the kraken is and if it was ever released. So many hopes dashed so many times.
I see many concerns that Apple has pushed out an OS update which will disable emergency notifications.
Just in case, I’ve turned off auto update setting. You decide for you…
Devin Nunes has set up subscription text alerts. Text FREEDOM to 98078 to join
Decentralized communication has its merrits. Like the old phone lists.
I have 10 people to text. Those people have 10 people each. Those have 10 people each.
There’s only one “emergency broadcast system” so that will be too easy to pull the plug out of.
go to the dark web for support.
Please educate us as to how to do that.
I think he’s referring to Tor?
https://www.torproject.org/
I just joined
All the purges are alarming suppression of free speech but isn’t there likely a bigger political goal in mind? Doesn’t this seem like a way to try to get the MAGA / Patriot movement to dissipate into obscurity as the old guard retakes power? While we are scrambling to re connect our lines of communication and media outlets the other side will flood the masses with their message and few challenges to it.
This is what I referred to in my earlier post.
The establishment knows MAGA rallies are empowerment. They are the way for Trump to share ideas. They cannot have Trump undermining Biden’s move in rallies. They are terrified. Then again it wont take much undermining just pointing out common facts and common sense.
This is why they are trying to make Trump supporters extremists and terrorist and the MAGA rallies can be abolished. That is in their game. We need to expose them in the light with truth and facts so that their game won’t work.
I don’t know why they’re doing this. This will actually cause dems to say, “That’s going too far. When will you not like my views on something else and ban ME?”
It seems to me they are/were expecting Trump to either release something they don’t want people to see OR address the nation about something.
They already said that in response to the so-called Muslim ban. It was all over social media from useful idiot liberals and cant-we-all-get-along nominal Christians
I am very grateful for this site. God bless you SD, admin, team and fellow Treepers…
Thank you God for so many blessings!
Jiwary…..
Sundance very politely asked Treepers non to post regarding Q at the Treehouse. I believe this was quite some time ago….like at least a year ago.
Not sure what I am doing, looks like I am unintentionally putting up red flags on posts.
Me, too!!! Ad rem, If I have any red flags that are clicked, they are accidental. I would never red flag anyone, even if I didn’t like what they had to say
Me also. The flag icon is popping up in the area I use to scroll. I don’t intend using it.
Jack is on drugs on the time; Bezos has been on Hgh and other steroids for a few years now and his aggressiveness knows no bounds.
What’s the old saying :
When you plant your tree in someone else’s orchard, don’t be surprised when you have to pay for your own apples ….
Parler sucks any way. They really need work on their interface. If they intend to be the future they have to step up their game.
GAB is the future. It is owned by its investor members, not GOPe Billionaires and talking heads. And GAB just started GAB TV to take down YouTube. According to GAB CEO, they are getting over 60k new members every day and have increased traffic 750% in the past week.
I really wish Sundance would create an account on GAB for those of us who are not GOP sheep and refuse to follow GOPe talking heads to Parler.
Also saw where a GAB phone is in the works
Cancelled my decades old Prime membership tonite. Annual renewal was next wk.
No loss there. Have you noticed in the last six months your Prime two-day delivery packages rarely arrive in two days anymore? A total fraud.
Actually, Prime deliveries here have been even faster—often one day.
Not for me. Taking a week for that 2 day. I cancelled my prime last night too
Well we see who the smart person is here.
3 hours ago Herschel Walker posted Very unfortunate to hear about Parler. I’ve made a Gab account so follow me there!!
5 hours ago Phil Robertson echoed post Phil Robertson – Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the
Dinesh D’Souza echoed post Dinesh D’Souza – Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the
4 hours ago Dinesh D’Souza posted Take heart, my fellow conservatives and patriots. We’ll get through this. We have been holed up for months—surely we can live with Parler going offline for a few days. Censorship is the product of fear
The tech oligarchs really believe that the Communists will remain in power forever. Their hubris will be their undoing if the worm turns.
They will be ripe for dismantling and huge financial losses if constitutional conservatives get back in power. I am still hopeful that all is not lost yet.
The “Cultural Revolution” in China aka communist takeover was 1966. That same group is still in power today because they appealed to corrupt individuals for profit in exchange for leniency, enabling and looking the other way. They are now doing the same thing in America. For anyone in China born after 1966 it has always been communism. Unfortunately it may be the same for America. We must fight this at all costs somehow.
Communism, socialism, collectivism, totalitarianism all eventually collapse.
But not overnight.
They need to learn that filtering all aspects of one’s life (particularly if you control, or just have strong influence, on everyone’s lives, by providing a widely popular product) through a dogmatic, one-sided political ideology is…incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial…
…in short, insanity, based upon an insane politics and incompetent science (which should have prevented, from the get-go, such disconnection from reality).
As soon as the left won, their mega media allies unleashed the bannings, knowing it’s approved by the Deepies and DoJ. Four years of this will not end well.
I told you a long time ago that your speech will be criminalised and your livelihood will be the lever if you work for a corporation.
The beginnings of de facto social credit scores are already with us. Get cancelled, be jobless.
Thank Mitch and his RINO minions for not removing the 230 protection for the SM platforms. This one is on him.
Mitch still has his tweet and fakebook accounts.
Not an accident!
I just downloaded Tor browser. It seems a little slower than before, but that is a small price to pay for security.
is Rumble safe from this kinda stuff
It’s a web site, doesn’t need an app. Beyond that fact I don’t know.
Hopefully Parler has lawyers seeking restraining orders and injunctions before a Trump-appointed judge in a red state. It seems like a clear antitrust conspiracy to squash a competitor since the supposed rules against inciting violence aren’t applied evenly. The DOJ should be doing something but we know that won’t happen. It also is a good opportunity for red state attorney generals to be pursuing action, preferably in rural counties with Trump supporting judges. States have laws against antitrust conspiracies too.
The main federal court that hears tech patent litigation is right here in a little East Texas city with a population of fewer than 25,000 residents.
Doesn’t the CIA use Amazon cloud services?
Several years ago at the time of the Pulse nightclub shooting, a journalist requested a copy of the 911 audio traffic. Lo and behold, the sheriff’s department used Amazon cloud for data storage. Amazon refused for several days to release the recording. They claimed that they were not a public entity and so were not subject to public information requests. In fact, it turned out that other counties, including most in Alabama, were using Amazon.
It might not be the worst idea to find out where our jurisdictions are storing data. The contracts should be publicly available information. If Amazon is going to be an unreliable provider, the county judge may need this to be brought to his/her attention.
Amazon has always been one of the biggest threats to the country, really even more than Twitter and Facebook, because they have been trying to control physical infrastructure, food and medicine distribution, etc. If you boycott just one company, please boycott them and convince everyone you know, especially younger people. There are so many better alternatives to every single “service” they offer, and it really is worth it to pay a little bit more if you have to. Amazon is subsidized by the Deep State (“data contracts”) so it can sell trinkets and bad tv shows for less.
So Antifa communicates and plans with Morse code? It could be entertaining to find their means of coordination to highlight their need for deplatforming.
What these idiots are missing is that talk doesn’t hurt anyone. If they keep taking away the means of peaceful protest, what is left?
I have used Amazon as my main supply source since Covid-19. I link to Amazon products on my site, although I am not an Amazon partner. I know to Amazon it’s not much, but this is $10k/yr loss to Amazon.
The other thing they are misunderstanding is that every time they take such an action, it increases the number of deplorables, not reduces them.
I have been trying to find someone from Wallstreet – do you hear me Steve Bannon and Steve Cortes, to start a deplorables Venture Capital Fund so we can fund alternatives to big tech. If we had done that, we could pump a few million into Parler to get them quickly moved to a new server platform. You can help by contacting Bannon and Cortes, although with parler out of service for a while I’m not sure how to do it.
Deplorables Venture Capital Fund – A fund specifically created to fund alternatives to FB, Twitter, Instagram, Googe Search, Adsense, and Youtube, and Amazon. This fund would be funded by investments from $1000 to a max of $10,000, to prevent anyone 1 person or group from gaining control. The goal is to raise a minimum $500 million.
Contacted my retirement investment fund manager yesterday about moving into funds with no offending corporations (as mentioned here). He’ll be calling me Monday with suggestions.
had a similar idea. Now we need to talk specifics.
Bannon has a web site, (can’t remember URL offhand) and his war room is on a bunch of places including rumble.com.
I’ve tried contacting him that way and get no response. Friday I tried contacting Fog City Midge, Steve Bannon, The War Room, and Steve Cortes through Parler. I got a lot of likes, but no response from any of them.
Will be interesting to watch Twitter stock prices on Monday. Glad I’m not an investor there. They are making Trump stronger by turning him into a martyr for liberty. As usual, the communists go too far and advance the cause of liberty to even more Americans.
LOL anyone who watched the old Star Wars knows that….. it’s a total Obi-Wan. By cutting Trump down it only makes him more powerful!
I got my 15 yo to watch New Hope couple of nights ago so he could see similarities in Mandolorian. PS Mandolorian takes place about a generation after Last Jedi. The empire never gives up sowing chaos to convince uninformed and harrased that they are the answer to the problems they created and so take over the galaxy. Watch last 2 episodes of season 2 for the communist playbook played out and spoken in soliloquy.
Twitter was down 4% overnight…already
Has Microsoft participated in any way?
They REALLY don’t want us speaking to one another, do they? Pathetic!
Why is everyone dancing around the issue, deplatform amazon. I like their service, but who couldn’t make money if you have post office (tax payers) shipping your stuff. Time to walk away