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:
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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.
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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.
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The importance of safe assembly is more prominent than ever…
He can still tweet using the POTUS platform.
Read Pompeo’s recent tweets, If that is not Trump I will eat my hat.
As far as Parler goes the answer is that they are all part of the Club. So this CEO was oblivious to Bezos, Jack, Mark and company? Seriously? Talk about an idiot. Nah, not buying it. More likely he is on the team with the GOP donor class. Kabuki theatre
At one time I thought Bongino was an owner in Parler.
He still has an ownership stake.
We can all do something besides tweeting, or supporting any of that fascist garbage.
As for me, I’m going to pour myself a glass of wine and commence making a divine stew. As I await real news which effects my life, I’ll enjoy it to the best of my ability. 🙂
Smart lady!
Meant to add:
Enjoy and cheers!
Toast to better days ahead! Long live our Republic!
Salut! L’chaim!
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Hi, EZ – sure wish I could bring you some smoked turkey noodle stew (all fresh veggies and herbs, of course). Good for what ails ya!
Oh man, that sounds goood.
Thank you for the nice thought – and for making me hungry. ?
How long do you cook your divines?
And where are you getting them, these days?
I get them from my trusted butcher. I “cook” them until a stock is rendered. Same as anybody who knows how to do stocks and broths from scratch. You can search this on the internet, if you have more questions.
I hope he pardons Julian Assange and Snoden and commutes Ulbricht’s sentence.
If not, we are all Julian Assange in the coming months and years. I wonder how Pompeo will feel about Assange when they come for Pompeo? Pompeo was one of the most rabidly against Assange and sorry to say so was PDJT.
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Sundance and Treepers, do not let ourselves be sidetracked by the present machinations of social media. Bad, yes of course it is. But we must remain focused that actors within the battleground states fraudulently stole this election. We cannot lose sight of the theft of our presidential vote being stolen. The thieves are still out there while we are focused on the ills of Twitter and FB.
ALL OF OUR VOTES were stolen and we cannot ever accept joebama as a president.
It almost seems like the Swamp didn’t realize we would mind having our vote stolen. They thought they could fool us. Now that it is obvious what they have done and Trump remains popular,they are in a panic mode. We will always know our vote was stolen and they are going to try and govern us without our consent?
Sometimes wanting something is better than getting it. We are watching this unfold and it is wrong.
We have always just went quietly along……
But President Trump taught us to fight.
Yeah…they don’t know how to deal with this.
Give them time to get in office I am quite sure they will find their way around the white house and feel very comfortable in totalitarianism using Fascist and Nazi and Communist tactics at whim.
I remember the Obama regime, people got the knocks on the door for even speaking critical of him.
Does anyone else remember those days?
This time they control everything. And we’ve got maniacs and one with dementia in the white house.
I’m sure dementia is rife in the octogenarian Congress as well.
I remember the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ used to bludgeon cities and police departments into submission. Seeing federal police conspicuously present in your city is quite unnerving. Thanks Obama!
They expected us to do what we always did before….quietly go away.
Not happening and they don’t know what to do!
I think they are afraid.
Also think they are not that smart.
They pushed their time frame up 4 years too soon.
If they would have waited until after President Trump 2nd term ended in 2024…we may have done as before and went quietly away.
President Trump taught us to fight.
First company that makes a “Not my President “ t-shirt will make millions.
And probably get arrested… ?
Probably already on sale from the leftists for the 2016 election
The old phrase is worth repeating, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”
I will forever consider President DJT the 46th president of the USA.
Trump will always be the 45th President in his 2nd term.
Amen to that! I agree!
We’ve seen how Soros bought state and local prosecutors, Zuckerberg paid off local election officials and China targeted state officials in Georgia and city officials like Swalwell. All of those “Republican” state legislatures certified their fraudulent elections.
By knowingly certifying illegal criminal votes doesn’t that make them criminal too?
If a bank robber goes in and robs the bank and I drive the robbers get-away car don’t I go to jail too?
It’s information warfare as cover for the steal. You do not have a chance when all your institutions are corrupt and there is also no opposition press and speech.
With that in mind why would Parler start by using Amazon host services for their platform?
Possibilities:
Years ago( when they started Parler) the swamp was doing a good job at pretending to be just a little bad and we thought we had rule of law, so something like this was very unlikely
Things changed drastically in the last 2 years.
maybe money??? We need someone with a lot of $ on our side.
Parler is not for free speech! Stop going with places that data mine!
They don’t, watch Bongino’s podcast today. he explains. Don’t spread fake news.
https://rumble.com/vcnt97-ep.-1432-the-road-ahead-the-dan-bongino-show.html
I just read today that Matze used to work for Amazon Web Services!
Will Chamberlain said at Charlie Kirk show it is cheaper and AWS has global reach. Building massive Infrastructure is impractical when the traffic are only during peak hours.
Obviously #2 and #3. Obvious
Maybe financial, but still stupid as he was basically signing his business over to them. He thought he had a business when he was only renting it.
Welcome to the ‘Big Reset’.
Don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. Almost every new IT person out of school is fed the cloud as the the scalable solution to everything. And there’s only like 3 major cloud providers, of which AWS captured 60%, Google 20% and Microsoft Azure 15%… all of which are ideologically aligned to treat the customer as a product. So, I’m not surprised their IT went with a big name instead of rolling their own.
As somebody who’s spent nearly all their adult life in what is now known as IT: The ‘dirty secret’ of ‘Cloud Computing’ is that it’s just a new name for “your stuff is stored/run on somebody else’s servers.”
General Mattis – ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’
Well, I don’t like Mattis but maybe he’s on to something.
Our side won’t do that.
But the folks coming in now?
“OH YES WE CAN”
We would fare better to be invaded by Russia and rescued by Putin.
Russia? Isn’t that the quaint Eastern European oligarchy with a GDP lees than Texas?
Alternative social media companies need to seriously consider maintaining their infrastructure outside of the US – probably in several non-NATO, non-anglosphere countries. The website TheSaker.is chose to base itself in Iceland.
Your care to insure our privacy is appreciated more than you know. Americans need a space to speak freely without censor. I was banned from Twitter (don’t know the reason) and we all know what happened to Parlor. Maybe Parlor can take some cues from CTH!
Matze runs to court to make AWS play nice … still rather naïve … he still missed his wake up call, needs to chat with Sundance … would be more productive than blowing hot air at Tucker.
I know many people abroad leaving FB, TW even Whassapp.
We need to make this a bigger movement.
Gab CEO claims he’s getting inundated with senior level IT resumes.
Watch out for the Chris Christie / Bill Barr / Mark Meadows moles.
Bingo!
If he knows what’s good for him he throws them in the trash can.
GAB is coming back to life. Rumor has it that President Trump will open an account.
Thank you all for what you have done. CTH is one of the few sites where I feel safe, and this is why.
Have y’all seen “THE SOCIAL DILEMNA”?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/
Yes, it’s very good…it sort of helped me tame my FB addiction…watch it while you can
Watching it now. Had an “AHA!” moment – these social media sites take advantage of the human need for connection – which is ADDICTIVE. These social media sites were also LOSING SUBSCRIBERS/SLOWING GROWTH prior to Covid.
Covid comes along and we’re hit with CLOSURES of all the places where human interaction takes place: no more gyms, no more hair salons, no more churches.
Masks. Physical social distancing. Even in the grocery stores – so you aren’t saying “hello” to anyone.
What is left?
SOCIAL MEDIA SITES.
We’ve not checked – but I wonder … did these demon infested sites get an uptick in their growth once Covid came on the scene?
hmmm….
Okay the last third has a lot of BS. Some pure propaganda.
At one point, the claim is made that ‘studies have shown fake news spreads 6 times faster than legitimate news,’ yet they follow that point with the claim that their AI cannot discriminate between real and fake news. lol….
Another one…they claim ‘democracy is under attack globally…mostly in countries that have democratic elections.’ Well, DUH. Then they list the countries that are being (intentionally) destabilized, and all of them are Western nations. They don’t touch Belarus, Ukraine, Thailand, Hong Kong…all the places where the US State Dept has been at work to destabilize. They even had an ‘expert’ who yammered the lefty “Russia! Russia! Russia!” crapola, too!
One thing hubby caught…the tech people maintain that they now have the ability to manipulate us and THAT is what is being sold. Yet … think about what we’ve seen with Covid – MASSIVE effort on the part of the various ‘platforms’ to SILENCE discussion about vaccines. If they’re fully able to manipulate us – they would NOT have had to bother with SILENCING discussion, now, would they? They could just manipulate us into hushing up about it.
Same could be said for shutting down conservative discussion arenas – but that, I think, is tied more into the globalist goal of destabilizing America.
Worth a watch, use your discernment.
Sundance, you have changed my life with your website.
Thank you for your privacy and free speech efforts on this website.
Now, let’s look at Parler. You write:
“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?”
Strange bedfellows . . . only in appearance?
Another Fox news? An organization aimed at SELLING a service to the targeted demographic, with the side purpose of manipulating that demographic toward a more globalist orientation?
Parler . . . requires your real name to sign up.
Why put yourself on a target list?
Deregister from the republican party. It’s not worth suffering for a party that doesn’t represent you.
When Parler first came out billing itself as a place where conservatives could go and have freedom of expression, my first thought was it was a herding operation, move those whom the Big Tech wants to easily identify so later they could silence them.
I thought that after reading their terms of service and the identifying information they required; along with Sundance’s comments that the Mercer’s were involved, since they were also involved in the Analytica information mining program when they were pushing the Cruz campaign.
If that was the intent, creating a platform to gather self-identifying conservatives or even simply MAGA, it was just a matter of time to wait for the perfect excuse to begin the silencing and identifying part of the program.
Posted on the President thread earlier an article from Gizmodo that a self-identified hacker has downloaded all the messages posted on Parler and is now in the process of using technology to locate via GPS where, and by whom, those posts/messages were made.
Openly acknowledging that discovery work is going on by sifting through all the posts on that site is another means of silencing people, making them afraid to be who they are. which is why, for me the Treehouse is most definitely a Last Refuge. THANK YOU!
I’m not going to share the methods I use, but they would have a difficult time tracking me down. Not saying it cannot be done, but considering my perceived value to them, I’m not worth their time. Yet!
We are deploying cyber-security to protect Americans from some of the largest companies in America. Growing up we admired the big companies of the day, General Motors, US Steel, Boeing, Texaco, IBM, etc. We knew they weren’t perfect, but we knew they were “on our side”.
I never dreamed such a situation of enemies within would ever come to pass.
Twitter loses $5 billion in market value after Trump is permanently barred from the platform
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/twitter-stock-price-president-donald-trump-permanently-banned-tweeting-2021-1-1029946778?fbclid=iwar0fxf8dn_ongh5n9ovbowy5jwbmo1ldscmusdrydctb6gzcyalb36tc3oy
Take em down. Get off Twitter. UTTERLY DESTROY IT!
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Well, our own military went to Amazon, so I reckon Mr. Matze thought Amazon had at least an ounce of business integrity. He clearly has been knocked upside the head. I feel sorry for him, surely there is a place inside of him where he thought he had made the big leagues in a worldly way and in seconds that was pulled out from under him. He seems so very young to me. I am keeping him in my thoughts and hoping he can get back in the game quickly. We need as many places as possible to stay connected.
Isn’t there a non-discrimination clause in DoD contracting that requires suppliers to DoD to be pretty much on the up-and-up, not misbehaving list?
If so, who is going to enforce it?
I think you are right. I am dismayed that our side keeps thrashing our side and throwing our people under the bus. I don’t think he should use the courts though. I hope he finds a way back. He may need to rebuild from the ground up though. I wish he and Bongino and the rest of them well and I hope, pray they come back fast. And I hope when they come back they take privacy more seriously.
I am not/was not on Parler. I am not on Gab but I refuse to thrash my own when it is clear the evil is out in full force.
They’re suing on 3 causes of action.
Included I believe is breach of contract. As part of that filing, I believe they noted a 30-day cure time period for issues. Well, they took down.offending posts… in 12 hours! Two times in a row. Then booted!
Ironically, at that time, what was Twitters #1 Trending topic? “Hang Pence”!!
Given the timing, this could wipe the company out, and Gab has a golden opportunity.
Gab needs to stop playing small ball, stop adding 10 servers, get a big whale & deploy 100, 300, 500 servers! Musk? Rush Limbaugh (what a way to go).
“With that in mind why would Parler start by using Amazon host services for their platform?”
So yes Amazon (WAPO) is the enemy but Dev Ops, Containerized applications with on demand scalability from well funded Fortune 10 provider is a pretty safe technical decision. You saw this scalability value when Parler and Gab saw massive growth via the conservative Twatter exodus and could not get servers fast enough. Amazon AWS does this in a blink of the eye.
Was it a good business decision? The result speaks for itself.
I do believe there is more to this story than meets the eye. Cancelled credit card processing, the data hack, Bongino going ballistic … all of it.
Methinks they’re just politically ignorant. They didn’t anticipate the threat of being canceled, and probably figured there would be someone willing to provide them infrastructure.
They also probably lack a little common sense and bought into the typical model for startups in Silicon Valley, of just renting your infrastructure so you can scale rapidly with no headache.
Gab did it the hard way and the right way. They’ll be rewarded. Hard work pays off.
They thought there was a 1st amendment. Now they are coming for the 2nd.
Exactemundo.
Sidney Powell,
I know you sometimes you post a comment on here so why not contact President Trump and have him grace us all in the Treehouse where he can speak his mind and keep us abreast to what and where he is taking us?
Sundance,you have his number?
Rumor has it Sundance and POTUS share an affinity for pancakes.
What is Sundance is POTUS?
Fantastic idea!
Why isn’t the Italy deposition / confession of M6 and CIA rigging 17 States from Rome getting any traction?
BC everyone is freaking out about Parler & delisting?
I read elsewhere the main funders of Parler is the Mercer family, big GOP donors. Don’t know much about them, except the apparently helped Team Trump in 2016 and beyond.
It may be the CEO John Matze formerly lived in the shattered fantasy world of thinking the democrats/leftists in the tech world would somewhat play by the rules. They’ve been mugged by reality.
Perhaps some paradigms have shifted.
Of course that would assume that Parler and its harvesting of phone numbers was operating in good-faith. A number of Parler critics such as “Ron” whose handle in “Codemonkeyz” said Parler was not secure enough at least a month ago.
Rebekah Mercer is a part owner. If your not familiar with the Mercer’s go look them up. Mz Mercer is exactly who we want to help finance conservative endeavors.
Did the MSM tell you Parler was harvesting phone numbers or did the fake “Ron” let that leak. BTW the real “Ron” is codemonkeyZ1).
CHT needs a better class of trolls.
Yawn. The parler ceo is a toolbag. This cheese dick popcorn fart poser amateur establishes a company as an alternative to the big tech twitter and then engages big tech amazon to provide servers, the very same amazon that provides server services to twitter. This clown is a joke.
Bravo,TBH ,enough words wasted on Parler. Now please everybody get off twit and fbook, your not going to miss a thing.
well said. I agree word for word..Parler ceo is a toolbag. This cheese dick popcorn fart is a poser amateur.
Dan Bongino is co owner?
To be fair, Amazon was probably the cheapest. You have to work within the resource constraints you have.
Mercers have limited funds??
I dare you to repeat that description of him real fast five times in a row after your sixth straight up scotch. Betcha you can’t do it!
If a tech company gives their service away for free, YOU are the product.
Two things:
“The Big Tech” is acting in sync, just as the election was stolen in sync. This is grounds for RICO and conspiracy.
Why did Parler not plan for this? Didn’t they see what happened to Gab?
Speaking of Gab… why didn’t they sue VISA as a monopoly that affects their business? Perhaps VISA too needs to be broken up.
Oh. has anyone been able to post at Breitbart? Posts seems to “moderated”…
Sounds like the grounds for invoking an executive order or two.
Epoch times article- Amazon and eBay no longer allowing sale of Q products.
Even though I and many others don’t go along with Q stuff….
Still not right what they are doing this.
That’s a mistake. That will entrench and enhance the conspiracy mindedness of the whole thing.
I wouldn;t be surprised if Amazon bans selling POTUS Trump items. As soon as he is out of office.
Matze may have set us all up.
By doing what? How? Parler has been around for a while now. No one made anyone sign up with them. Why is it all of a sudden this guy Matze is public enemy #1? Of all the things happening right now, our country on the brink of collapse…makes perfect sense to get ‘some’ people all worked up about a service called Parler.
stay calm
Thank you Sundance, however we as your readers also have a responsibility to ensure our own safety & that’s why I urge readers to get a VPN outside of “Five Eyes” that has a proven history of not logging their customers travels on the web.
President Trump has declared a state of emergency in DC.
Cite your source please?
Trump Issues Emergency Declaration for DC Ahead of Inauguration
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1005169
Hope you were careful with your DNS provider. GoDaddy started banning.
I am also suspicious about Parler. Not only was it deplatformed, it was designed to be 100% integrated into the converged cloud platforms which means it was incredibly fragile.
Apparently, it was also compromised and hacked for many days, with hackers having admin perms and where able to create fake accounts and incite violence on Jan 6
So, now it’s basically a database for doxing.
They also where able to extract the entire social graph. Parler should be completely dead to any serious person now. It should be completely shutdown.
Like the GOPe its designed to fail. I feel bad for Bongino, I like his energy and irreverance. But the Parler people should never be allowed to be taken seriously as a serious platform again.
As usual, Trump knew, and never moved there. Maybe he will stay offline. The power vacuum is quite entertaining as we watch the “winners” become full totalitarians and stage the most outrageous over-reach.
“the “winners” become full totalitarians and stage the most outrageous over-reach.”
This should wake up any fence sitters and a lot people that have been deceived by the [Mockingbird] Main Sewer Media’s propaganda. what happens after that is unknown at this point.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Ah, it’s already been shut down. And Trump did move there right before it was shut down.
Re: Tucker and Parler video
Why is our side soooooooo STUPID?
There’s been an overthrow of the government and our sitting president who won a 2nd term has been unseated.
And our side is complaining and explaining why this is just not right?
I’d say “Duh!”@#!!
But sometimes people involved in a crime being committed against them are not even aware it is happening to them until AFTER.
So I will patiently give them time.
But people must wake up.
We had ONE CHANCE to stop this and instead we put our faith in courts. Courts don’t quell insurrections. The courts were in on it.
Today it’s little things like Twitter and F. Book and they’re not even in power yet.
I don’t think people understand what happened yet.
But if these maniacs get into power they have full control of the house, the senate, the presidency, the FBI, CIA, Secret Service AND THE MILITARY.
They will do as they will.
They can even enact new laws to make anything they want illegal punishable by prison.
Just ask Julian Assange they can put whomever they want in prison until they rot.
Constitution?
NOPE.
They’ve put that on hold and should be obvious to anyone who saw the election fraud and approval of it.
Don’t worry Monica…Biden’s going to resign …for sure….soon….as you assert.
Never got on twitter or have used facebook. Rush mentioned that facebook is a cesspool. One of my relatives agreed that it is a cesspool. The companies that my wife and I used to work at admonished us not to use social media platforms such as twitter/facebook. Glad I never did. I am also contacting my financial advisor to sell any interest I may have in twitter, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix and google. I refuse to support these corporations. Hit them where it hurts, in the wallet.
Tucker, Fox News, the GOP, are busy work for losers.
Does suprise me that anyone on the conservative side of social media got caught off guard by what was inevitably coming their way.
The collaborators always think they will be spared when the revolution comes. They are just 2nd on the list. A dictator can’t leave anyone around who knows how the sausage was made.
Don’t forget, Bongino spent the last several months taunting Twitster to ban him. He was on their radar to begin with.
I’m conflicted on Parler. Sundance says one thing, Dan Bongino says another (listen to today’s podcast, he sounds like hell). Personally, I don’t care that much because I think social media is poison, and while I signed up when I still had a Twitter account, I haven’t used it since my registration (and have since closed Twitter).
I have de-: Twiittered, Facebooked, Amazoned. De-Googling all my account emails has been a grind. Then I have to deal with Google Authenticator on my accounts. 2nd to last will be trying to escape Apple’s grasp, but it will take time and money. Then finally Microsoft?
But you know what? I listened to Dan today and it seemed like the least effort I could make.
Control free speech?
Don’t underestimate them (or as George W Bush would say – don’t misunderestimate them).
They want to ELIMINATE free speech.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Nazi-lingo.
And Brennan was talking Stalin-ese
Sundance and all you wonderful friends that keep this Treehouse in order… “THANK YOU!” BD
Parler should have NOT planted their orchard at next door neighbor.
Really dont understand why we dont collectively make a massive coordinated move to dump these people asap. The iron is hot.
Today, I cancelled Amazon. I installed Brave (fantastic browser btw, great for vastly improved privacy). I changed my PC name resolution service to OpenDNS for better security. I created a protonmail account (data hosted in Switzerland) and started figuring out how to move contacts and save critical emails out of gmail. I will soon start switching over all password recovery config at financial service web sites.
I am evaluating feasibility of switching to a cell phone unlimited data plan and dumping Comcast.
I am researching phone options. I really think I can live with a simple flip phone, but hoping there’s a linux phone out there somewhere
that will support limited smartphone functionality.
I look forward to the day I can smash my iphone with a hammer and send pictures of this event to Apple and to Gab.
We 20 million people to do this. Dump facebook, dump whatsapp, dump everything. We must do it and sooner is better.
Fight! Don’t take this crap lying down. Be a true American.
https://linuxsmartphones.com/can-a-linux-phone-replace-my-iphone-or-android-device/
I wrote so much and deleted it. Without diving into grandstanding things look pretty bleak. I see a lot of conservative writers and commentators are making comparisons to NAZI Germany and the USSR. What none of them point out in their approach to fighting this is that the Jews didn’t beat the Germans, and the Ukranian kulaks didn’t beat the Russians. Once you have lost economic freedom, you don’t have political freedom. Dan said that yesterday. But I don’t think he took it to the logical conclusion, you can try to grow a conservative economy, but that only works if you have equal protection politically and judicially. You don’t. There’s only a few logical endings to this, and I’m afraid the best ones are in a Kurt Schlichter novel.
I should also add, most hacks are inside jobs. There are holes in every system. My guess the hack came from a vendor, possibly unauthorized or unofficial, but a combination of stupidity, hubris, and perhaps another GOPe backstabber who just happens to fail at exactly the right moment, just when they are needed the most. Seems to be a reoccuring theme in the GOP/conservative inc ecosystem. And Tucker is always there for a healthy catharsis and witty aphorism.
Right now they have everyone worried about banning of their social media accounts. I am more worried about; “Education” Camps, Gun Confiscation, Forced Labor and thinks like that every Communist take-over entails.
Last year it was mandatory shutdowns, social distancing and masks no one ever dreamed about. What will it be this year no one ever dreamed possible? I can see grocery store day assignments, required travel psses to vist another City, assigned time slot to get on the Freeway. Who ever dreamed you couldn’t go to a football game, etc.
you can add Matze to this photo now.
At first it was fun at parler blocking the Boob girls ..then it got annoying.
Old Katy and Betty must have opened 3-4 different profiles a day. Their profile pic..them showing their boobs.
Then they got the Kstan and anime trolls. With name like poopy Trump..doo doo! Had to be kids.
Then the lbqt trans,BLM and Antifa trolls!
Blocking all the trolls on Parler was fun–candy crush game addicting.
Ad Rem needs a medal. I can only imagine what she goes through.
Parler was ok..moderation not that good.
How could this happen to Parler?
Never thought it was going to get this big, and would only be a gnat on Amazon’s back.
Never thought through the whole backroom backline infrastructure issues.
Never thought they would actually pull the plug.
When using the vendors, there are pre-arranged agreements with the big guys.
Some of the startup investors may have made the arrangements with costs or cross investments in mind.
There is no one else at this level of scale that could handle it. CTH is finding out the same as bandwidth and gateways for traffic.
OR, they are like some of my bankruptcy clients, and they are that damn naive or dumb.
Realize how many of these tech CEOs and leadership have no C-Suite experience.
You can’t buy experience.
Communists count the votes!!!
As the fascisti scramble to slam the door on unapproved thought, the Conservative Treehouse is going to become a beacon in the dark. I’m seeing new posters every time I come in here.
Problem is, half of them seem to be trolls……
Add Verizon and Comcast to the list.
Wall Street cutting off all donations to Republicans would actually be one of the best possible outcomes of all this in the long run
I am concerned that what they are willing to do to elected congressmen will then come down to us. Considering acquiring a new credit card in case citi chooses to dump us. Will be harder to acquire after they do so, if they do so.
The elected congressmen shoukd have thought about that before they sold out the country.
Inexperienced, naive manager.
(I was part of a small team that did a SWOT Analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats – for a $100 Million company 20 years ago. Simple, but raised cogent needs.)
Parler CEO had no backup plan. I feel for him. Gab had to invent this all 4 years ago – for some reason they were virtually banned across the board. Has to be illegal behavior.
Gab built their own browser (or browser extension); their own email system; and are now piloting a competitor to YouTube. Visa won’t even process their payments! (They use bitcoin & checks.)
Maybe their “no tracking” mantra panics the Oligarchs. All I can figure.
Too bad Musk, or 5 medium players can’t band together and take on Amazon Web Services!
Breaking: 1-11-2020
Live Q&A: Emergency Declaration in DC Approved by Trump; First Time Trump & Pence Speak Since Jan 6?
Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP
Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration for Washington, D.C., and up to 15,000 National Guard troops could be deployed on inauguration day amid rumors of armed protests. NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE INSURRECTION ACT it’s for the INAUGURATION.
And after Republicans blocked the House from bringing up a resolution on the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, Democrats are have introduced an impeachment resolution.
From the video:
Biden will not be at the inauguration in person, it will BE VIRTUAL.
WTH???
So it’s easy to get 15,000 troops there for a fake emergency but it wasn’t a state of emergency when they stole the election in November?
What is going on?
Wolfe Blitzer is claiming there will be armed protests by Trump supporters at capitols around the country on inauguration day.
This is such a lie.
This is a set-up!
My take is, mockingingbird fake cia news will use the chance with 15,000 National Guard at so called inauguration for pedojoe as a photoshoot with caption something along the lines of (vomit) ‘ look at how our wonderfull new president is adored by our troops’ .
Anybody want a bet?
I had resubscribe but, to my horror, all the comments were coming into my email box. So, I unsubscribed until the glitch is fixed. However, I do check into the Tree House via Twitter a few times a day. That said, I’m terrified that Twitter will suspend The Last Refuge.
About Parler, my first and only thought was why did they choose Amazon, it made no sense. If a nobody like me questioned it, there’s something fishy going on with Parler’s CEO.
As a sidenote, I appreciate everything the Tree House is doing for its supporter base.
We live in very sad and depressing times as we are seeing many people who made money on Donald J. Trump abandon ship, the latest being the PGA who will no longer host its tournament on Trump property. They all want to strip him down to the bare bones. And that second impeachment attempt will deprive him of security services and of running again in 2024. Nancy Pelosi is evil, indeed.
2 can play the PGA’S game kick them to the curb and take away their cash cow. Us being their cash cow!
So someone on Youtube got the new name for the fraud. Let me unveil it for you so that you may publicize it far and wide:
Joseph Stealin’
This is my theory. Based on the origin story of Gab and the origin story of Parler. I think that Parler was designed to be *just like twitter” except in disguise to benefit the GOPe. Maybe even the CEO is unaware of the motives behind his benefactors, the Mercers.
They have been trying to do to Gab what they are now doing to PDJT for years without success. Gab is truly a threat to Big Tech while Parler is a straw man created to dupe delporables.
Parler is like the former head of the KGB begging the new head of the KGB for his life in the basement of the Lubyanka
Just my gut feeling.
Funny how things work out, Parler’s loss is someone else’s gain.