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Parler’s going offline again

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Parler, the beleaguered social network advertised as a "free speech" alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has had a tough month. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their stores, and Amazon blocked the platform from using its hosting services. Parler has since found a home in DDoS-Guard, a Russian digital infrastructure company. But now it appears DDoS-Guard is about to be relieved of more than two-thirds of the Internet address space the company leases to clients -- including the Internet addresses currently occupied by Parler. The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a researcher who has made it something of a personal mission to de-platform conspiracy theorist and far-right groups.

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by Anonymousreply 3January 22, 2021 1:22 PM

Wonder why the couldn't set up their own hosting or get Russian hosting?

Parler is really on the shit list.

by Anonymousreply 1January 22, 2021 1:16 PM

I never got why they bothered. Twitter and Facebook are completely fine with rightwing lunacy so long as they manage to not go full treason.

by Anonymousreply 2January 22, 2021 1:17 PM

That's the thing... they want to call for the deaths of those they dislike, so they're going to keep getting deplatformed. It's fun watching grifters attempting to profit off of the fallout though. I wonder how many simply see this as a moneymaking scheme.

by Anonymousreply 3January 22, 2021 1:22 PM
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