Of coarse it was the big three Amazon, Google and Apple that deplatformed Parler. Three companies that have or would love to create their own monopoly. Just goes to show how absolute power corrupts absolutely. At the least Google should be broken up. Funny how those that can afford huge political donations become protected by both sides of our corrupt political mafia. J.G.
Exactly! I found it hard to believe that Parler trying to be the "free speech" platform left itself in a so obviously vulnerable position of depending on the good will of openly hostile lefty Amazon, Apple and Google server services. I saw that screwing coming from a mile away and was severely disappointed the honchos at Parler weren't sharp enough to see it coming too.
Almost all giants get taken down a peg or two at some point. Look at the tobacco companies, phone companies, GE and now, Honeywell, one of the last current conglomerate structures is breaking into three parts. Monopolies - Boo. I'm very concerned with monopoly building of Left leaning Billionaires. The ones out in front of us we can watch, what about all those hiding in the shadows? Oh, and those government monopolies with the monopolistic unions.
Six or seven years ago, I stopped using all my social media accounts, including Facebook where I had several thousand friends, several hundred whom I knew in real life. It was just too much to manage while doing 24/7 healthcare for a dying mom while also losing my one-person business at the same time.
Then, the pandemic came, later that year mom died, and as an unvaccinated person, I found myself socially ostracized and more isolated than ever. I could not go back to the nanny state censorship of existing social media to be repudiated by my previous online friends.
An alt news site discussion thread referred me to the pivotal podcast by Bret Weinstein hosting Steve Kirsch and Dr. Robert Malone in the summer of 2021. Somehow, I followed those voices of reason over to this Substack Platform and I've been here ever since, subscribed to a number of authors and analysts.
I'm happy that Parler is back for those who use it, but, frankly, Substack is about all I can handle right now.
In the beginning, it was my social media starting place. I was well satisfied with it. Then we were all destroyed. An infuriating and painful experience.
Then one of Trump's men developed and put GETTR on the market. With the campaign and election it has and is evolving. With Epoch, Substack, GETTR, radio and my Conservative News app my attention is challenged.
I've been getting daily e-mail contacts from Parler recently. With your message here will check in and follow you there. Again, thank you for the headsup.
Off topic and this might upset some, but I thought Trump’s comment about Taylor Swift being booed was not only inappropriate, but down right rude and unnecessary. 🙄
She’s a Lefty, but why cause division when it’s not needed? He does not need to demean and denigrate everyone who disagrees with him. Saying nothing is OK, in fact, it’s a sign of maturity, and keeps an open door if there’s a change of mind and heart.
Bless his soul...he just can't help himself. Easy to ask someone to change, not so easy to accomplish. I can agree tho, some stuff should just be kept within - tongue bite anyone! I would say it was built into older generations "one up manship" to feed dominate male ego. Younger generations might be being given a softer side disposition and that can tilt the wrong way also.
DOGE - Four FEMA employees are being fired for approving a $59 million payment to house migrants in NYC without authorization, according to DHS.
RFK Jr. - Tomorrow, we make history! One more day until I'm confirmed as HHS Secretary. We'll tackle the chronic disease epidemic head-on, ban harmful additives, and restore trust in our health agencies. It's time for real change in America's medical system!🇺🇸
START PRAYING AGAIN FOLKS - latest shows all Demon crats are a no including Fetterman who has voted yes on other nominees. McConnell seems mute, nothing from Murkowski, but hurrah, Collins has indicated a "yes".
NIH repost by RFK Jr. - Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
When I was in the grant writing phase of my career some places got away with charging over 100% indirect costs. Not hard to guess who and that depleted the grant funds available p.d.q.
Interesting that you tether free speech directly to health. I'm assuming media health, but I'm inclined to agree. There is a yin/yang to free speech that is easily separated when it becomes a choice between censorship or no censorship. Mental illness, lunatics, radicals and dark forces exist. Any or all of them could end up as the arbiters of allowable speech, if censorship is tolerated. My choice is that each of us must be our own arbiter of truth and ignore, not censor, those sources we each deem unreliable.
I think it’s great that Parler is back. The Stalinist censorship was egregious—more options for free speech.
For me, I can barely handle Epoch Times, Dr. Malone’s posts, and the regular news sites I visit—it’s a bit too much for my brain to digest. I have to take sabbaticals often from all the info.
I’ve been getting emails from them weekly for … forever? Since before they were booted from AWS, then they got their own servers. Haven’t used them in ages - only so many hours, Ya’know.
That’s kind’a what I was alluding to: while I have an account at Parlor, and at Gab, my "social calendar" is already pretty full - newz feeds, some (SOME) substack, excursions in to Reddit, and then there’s the rest of my LIFE. As it is, I think I already commit too many hours to non-productive things - just think, if we’d had social media 1,000 years ago we might still be in the "dark ages." Yeah yeah, I know, who says we aren’t? 🤣
The same story can be written about GAB. Founder, Andrew Torba, was taken down by Big Tech and he too has risen again and he gives all credit to Christ for getting him through the darkest times in his life and now for his present success. Consider joining his platform as he is truly committed to free speech as well. He has been threatened by some of the best and he is still standing.
This article is basically a press release, an advertisement. I was hoping for more of an exposé.
I joined Parler early on. (Noticing that many called it "par-ler" rather than using the French word "par-lay" which means, literally "to speak.") I don't remember getting a lot out of it, and then it was gone. Dave Rubin came up with Locals in 2019 and I went there. locals combined with Rumble in 2021. But my impression of the sites was that they were too entertainment-oriented for my liking, and I ended up on Substack (which was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco of all places).
Ownership and control of internet infrastructure will continue to be an issue, I would predict. But the problem is mitigated by the fact that the internet is also distributed using the cell phone network, which just about everyone wants to keep very public (its surveillance opportunities are just too seductive). I hope that open discussion can continue on these platforms, but at least one person I follow (Courtney Brown) predicts that the "bad guys" will totally control the internet in just a few more years.
Parler turned over the names an ip addresses of all its users in order to get amazon hosting back, which is why i closed my account when that happened.
Bank of America voluntarily gave the usg lists, names, addresses, ss# of anyone who used their accounts for firearms purchases. Thats why i pulled all my biz and personal accounts.
One of the Secretaries in my husbands office had told me about Parler. Freedom of speech was leaving us. The secretary had said to try Parler so I joined. I don’t know what happened to my account. I will have to look into my account.
I joined all the MANY apps that became available after the censorship but, sadly, could not get all my friends and family to leave Facebook or Twitter (now X) - and I really really tried! So, X is still my go to for news (which is fine now that Elon is running free speech!) and Facebook is still my only connection with family and friends. I wish someone could come up with a near-carbon copy of Facebook that would entice people to change. But...Facebook doesn't make it easy to know how to download all your photos and videos of the past which is another drawback for people changing apps. (I'm sure this is intentional). I don't want to log into a dozen different apps to see what's going on everywhere, which I think is how most people feel. So, we are stuck at this point.
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
When you say Parlor is back, from where? Where were they?
I've never understood where social media (any media really) resides. If they have their own server how can they be "taken down" as long as the have an internet service provider? If they rent space from other servers like Amazon et.al. they can be denied the space they are renting and evicted (deplatformed) I suppose. So why wouldn't a company like Parlor maintain their own servers?
Of coarse it was the big three Amazon, Google and Apple that deplatformed Parler. Three companies that have or would love to create their own monopoly. Just goes to show how absolute power corrupts absolutely. At the least Google should be broken up. Funny how those that can afford huge political donations become protected by both sides of our corrupt political mafia. J.G.
Exactly! I found it hard to believe that Parler trying to be the "free speech" platform left itself in a so obviously vulnerable position of depending on the good will of openly hostile lefty Amazon, Apple and Google server services. I saw that screwing coming from a mile away and was severely disappointed the honchos at Parler weren't sharp enough to see it coming too.
Almost all giants get taken down a peg or two at some point. Look at the tobacco companies, phone companies, GE and now, Honeywell, one of the last current conglomerate structures is breaking into three parts. Monopolies - Boo. I'm very concerned with monopoly building of Left leaning Billionaires. The ones out in front of us we can watch, what about all those hiding in the shadows? Oh, and those government monopolies with the monopolistic unions.
Truer words never said! As usual james, you are correct.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The DODGE team knows and is exposing it for ALL to see.
The shadow knows….
Those old radio shows were really fun!!!
I drive a Dodge. Am I on that team too?
Six or seven years ago, I stopped using all my social media accounts, including Facebook where I had several thousand friends, several hundred whom I knew in real life. It was just too much to manage while doing 24/7 healthcare for a dying mom while also losing my one-person business at the same time.
Then, the pandemic came, later that year mom died, and as an unvaccinated person, I found myself socially ostracized and more isolated than ever. I could not go back to the nanny state censorship of existing social media to be repudiated by my previous online friends.
An alt news site discussion thread referred me to the pivotal podcast by Bret Weinstein hosting Steve Kirsch and Dr. Robert Malone in the summer of 2021. Somehow, I followed those voices of reason over to this Substack Platform and I've been here ever since, subscribed to a number of authors and analysts.
I'm happy that Parler is back for those who use it, but, frankly, Substack is about all I can handle right now.
I cant trust those who run parler.
Thank you for this review.
In the beginning, it was my social media starting place. I was well satisfied with it. Then we were all destroyed. An infuriating and painful experience.
Then one of Trump's men developed and put GETTR on the market. With the campaign and election it has and is evolving. With Epoch, Substack, GETTR, radio and my Conservative News app my attention is challenged.
I've been getting daily e-mail contacts from Parler recently. With your message here will check in and follow you there. Again, thank you for the headsup.
Ok. Rejoined and following you. The short quips and news about your wealths of goose eggs are a delight! Definitely worth daily checks! :)
Off topic and this might upset some, but I thought Trump’s comment about Taylor Swift being booed was not only inappropriate, but down right rude and unnecessary. 🙄
She’s a Lefty, but why cause division when it’s not needed? He does not need to demean and denigrate everyone who disagrees with him. Saying nothing is OK, in fact, it’s a sign of maturity, and keeps an open door if there’s a change of mind and heart.
Bless his soul...he just can't help himself. Easy to ask someone to change, not so easy to accomplish. I can agree tho, some stuff should just be kept within - tongue bite anyone! I would say it was built into older generations "one up manship" to feed dominate male ego. Younger generations might be being given a softer side disposition and that can tilt the wrong way also.
Off topic, yes, but a good point.
Agree! Why be rude!? - especially when you've already "won."
Latest:
DOGE - Four FEMA employees are being fired for approving a $59 million payment to house migrants in NYC without authorization, according to DHS.
RFK Jr. - Tomorrow, we make history! One more day until I'm confirmed as HHS Secretary. We'll tackle the chronic disease epidemic head-on, ban harmful additives, and restore trust in our health agencies. It's time for real change in America's medical system!🇺🇸
START PRAYING AGAIN FOLKS - latest shows all Demon crats are a no including Fetterman who has voted yes on other nominees. McConnell seems mute, nothing from Murkowski, but hurrah, Collins has indicated a "yes".
NIH repost by RFK Jr. - Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
When I was in the grant writing phase of my career some places got away with charging over 100% indirect costs. Not hard to guess who and that depleted the grant funds available p.d.q.
Interesting that you tether free speech directly to health. I'm assuming media health, but I'm inclined to agree. There is a yin/yang to free speech that is easily separated when it becomes a choice between censorship or no censorship. Mental illness, lunatics, radicals and dark forces exist. Any or all of them could end up as the arbiters of allowable speech, if censorship is tolerated. My choice is that each of us must be our own arbiter of truth and ignore, not censor, those sources we each deem unreliable.
I think it’s great that Parler is back. The Stalinist censorship was egregious—more options for free speech.
For me, I can barely handle Epoch Times, Dr. Malone’s posts, and the regular news sites I visit—it’s a bit too much for my brain to digest. I have to take sabbaticals often from all the info.
I was unaware Parler was “gone?”
I’ve been getting emails from them weekly for … forever? Since before they were booted from AWS, then they got their own servers. Haven’t used them in ages - only so many hours, Ya’know.
Guess this is good news but substack is about as social as I can manage on the net.
That’s kind’a what I was alluding to: while I have an account at Parlor, and at Gab, my "social calendar" is already pretty full - newz feeds, some (SOME) substack, excursions in to Reddit, and then there’s the rest of my LIFE. As it is, I think I already commit too many hours to non-productive things - just think, if we’d had social media 1,000 years ago we might still be in the "dark ages." Yeah yeah, I know, who says we aren’t? 🤣
me too!
Me too!
I had a Parker account. I don’t know what I did with it.
The same story can be written about GAB. Founder, Andrew Torba, was taken down by Big Tech and he too has risen again and he gives all credit to Christ for getting him through the darkest times in his life and now for his present success. Consider joining his platform as he is truly committed to free speech as well. He has been threatened by some of the best and he is still standing.
This article is basically a press release, an advertisement. I was hoping for more of an exposé.
I joined Parler early on. (Noticing that many called it "par-ler" rather than using the French word "par-lay" which means, literally "to speak.") I don't remember getting a lot out of it, and then it was gone. Dave Rubin came up with Locals in 2019 and I went there. locals combined with Rumble in 2021. But my impression of the sites was that they were too entertainment-oriented for my liking, and I ended up on Substack (which was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco of all places).
Ownership and control of internet infrastructure will continue to be an issue, I would predict. But the problem is mitigated by the fact that the internet is also distributed using the cell phone network, which just about everyone wants to keep very public (its surveillance opportunities are just too seductive). I hope that open discussion can continue on these platforms, but at least one person I follow (Courtney Brown) predicts that the "bad guys" will totally control the internet in just a few more years.
Parler turned over the names an ip addresses of all its users in order to get amazon hosting back, which is why i closed my account when that happened.
Bank of America voluntarily gave the usg lists, names, addresses, ss# of anyone who used their accounts for firearms purchases. Thats why i pulled all my biz and personal accounts.
I wouldn't touch either again with a 100ft pole
One of the Secretaries in my husbands office had told me about Parler. Freedom of speech was leaving us. The secretary had said to try Parler so I joined. I don’t know what happened to my account. I will have to look into my account.
I joined all the MANY apps that became available after the censorship but, sadly, could not get all my friends and family to leave Facebook or Twitter (now X) - and I really really tried! So, X is still my go to for news (which is fine now that Elon is running free speech!) and Facebook is still my only connection with family and friends. I wish someone could come up with a near-carbon copy of Facebook that would entice people to change. But...Facebook doesn't make it easy to know how to download all your photos and videos of the past which is another drawback for people changing apps. (I'm sure this is intentional). I don't want to log into a dozen different apps to see what's going on everywhere, which I think is how most people feel. So, we are stuck at this point.
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
So true. And so sad. There was Parler, MeWe, Telegram, and others that Facebook didn't gobble up... they just never could compete. 😔
When you say Parlor is back, from where? Where were they?
I've never understood where social media (any media really) resides. If they have their own server how can they be "taken down" as long as the have an internet service provider? If they rent space from other servers like Amazon et.al. they can be denied the space they are renting and evicted (deplatformed) I suppose. So why wouldn't a company like Parlor maintain their own servers?