“This Was A Coordinated Attack”: Parler CEO Speaks Out After Amazon Boots From AWS, Vows To Rebuild ‘From Scratch’

Via ZeroHedge

Update (2210 ET): Parler CEO John Matze has issued a statement (emphasis ours):

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 internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.

We will try our best to move to a new provider right now as we have many competing for our business, however Amazon, Google and Apple purposefully did this as a coordinated effort knowing our options would be limited and knowing this would inflict the most damage right as President Trump was banned from the tech companies.

This was a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the market place. We were too successful too fast. You can expect the war on competition and free speech to continue, but don’t count us out.

#speakfreely

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Update (2130 ET): And so the hammer has come down late on Saturday, when Amazon officially kicked Parler off its cloud Web hosting service, AWS according to Buzzfeed. The suspension means that once the ban takes effect on Sunday, the website – which as of this moment is still up – will be offline until it finds someone else to host it.

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Update (2100 ET): As expected, Apple removed Parler permanently from its app store on Saturday. “[T]here is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” the iPhone maker said, according to CNN which adds that Apple notified Parler of its decision in a message that said it had violated the company’s app store terms.

“The processes Parler has put in place to moderate or prevent the spread of dangerous and illegal content have proved insufficient,” Apple told Parler. “Specifically, we have continued to find direct threats of violence and calls to incite lawless action in violation of Guideline 1.1 – Safety – Objectionable Content.”

Apple’s notice said Parler’s responses to an earlier warning were inadequate, including Parler’s defense that it had been taking violent rhetoric on its platform “very seriously for weeks” and that it had a moderation plan “for the time being,” according to Apple.

A search for the Parler app as of 8pm showed that the app was no longer there, with the search query returning recommended substitutes:

“Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety,” Apple said in a statement to CNN Business. “We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.”

Apple’s decision follows a similar move by Google to drop Parler from the Google Play Store, and after Amazon (AMZN) has come under pressure by its own employees to stop hosting Parler’s website on Amazon Web Services.

John Matze, Parler’s CEO, wrote in a message on his platform that Apple “will be banning Parler until we give up free speech, institute broad and invasive policies like Twitter and Facebook and we become a surveillance platform by pursuing guilt of those who use Parler before innocence.”

“They claim it is due to violence on the platform,” Matze wrote of Apple, whom he also accused of being a “software monopoly,” a particularly relevant attack right now given an ongoing antitrust suit against Apple from Fortnite maker Epic Games. “The community disagrees as we hit number 1 on their store today.”

Matze promised to share “more details about our next plans coming soon as we have many options.”

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Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly

Bezos is a bad guy, fronting for more bad guys. Amazon is entirely (not partially, but totally, without exception) a creature of the Deep State. The purpose of Amazon is to facilitate the emergence and durability of the globalist/corporatist/techno totalitarian reign. He is not kidding around.

Still, many people even n this site have their Prime accounts, use this or that Amazon service, maybe contract for cloud space with Amazon or one of their affiliates. Paying for and building the cell in which you will be held, and the gallows on which you will swing. But you get “free” shipping. True that.

It does not take heroics to stop giving your business to people like Bezos. A tiny bit of inconvenience, perhaps, but not much. You should stop all of it today. No Amazon, no Twitter, no MS, none of any of these products or services specifically intended to support people who openly declare their intention to do you out of your liberty, property and life.

Craven Warrior
Craven Warrior

I completely agree with you, but find it difficult to do so. I live in a small town and often have difficulty finding products that I need, especially with the mask mandates (which I refuse to follow). We were just turned away from a local hardware store because we refuse to put on the face diaper. We had to go to Lowe’s in a nearby town to get what we needed.

We want to support our local businesses, but they often demand that we mask up. If they don’t care about their business enough to let us be free Americans, I can’t make them let me spend my money with me. Local department stores treat us like disease walking.

You can’t tell me that Wal-Mart is a better alternative than Amazon. They often don’t have what I need and their business model is such that you have trouble returning products that don’t work, etc. At least, Amazon treats their customers like customers.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer

That really is the challenge….the problem is that the Fascists (merging of government and Big Business) have effectively eliminated the competition in the form of small business. In our town of 50,000, the alternative to Amazon is Walmart, Target, Costco…..effectively no alternative as they are equally heinous and woke and the deep state.

Sure for food, we can buy small and local to some degree and I do but for most things no. So I try to go to smaller regional companies Murdoch’s is a great Farm and Ranch store that carries hardware, guns, and clothes also.

If you want to go off-grid most of the items you bought to do so came from a big box store and likely Amazon unless you want to go Ludditte off-grid which is only for the truly committed.

I don’t think there is an easy or quick answer. Building alternatives will take time and is more likely a fool’s errand. The more permanent answer is to take back the reins of power and stop the bullshit.

Parler shows we will not be allowed to go our own way, that buying small and local will ultimately be crushed (digital currency makes that very easy) so either we have the ability to control our destiny or suffer the consequences.

Parler tried to efficiently grow rapidly by using AWS….like most tech levered start-ups but that vulnerability has been exposed.

Avoiding the fight as we have for so long is no longer a viable strategy for survival. In the age-old ruthless logic of the 4th Turning, this battle will be fought to a definitive conclusion, failure to fight simply means losing.

brian
brian

Its a learning process. Start by buying from smaller businesses or ordering what you need directly from companies producing their products here. Write them emails stating you are only buying their products BECAUSE they make them here. If a small biz turns you away, tell them you’d love to shop there and support them but can’t because of the masking etc.

You’ll find out what you can live without too. Living better with less isn’t a problem just an adjustment in mindset.

Glock-N-Load

LLPOH, some years ago, posted a link to a website that listed companies that manufacture here in the US. I saved that website but cannot find it now.

LLPOH

If you see this, maybe you could post a link to that website again?

Stucky

“a link to a website that listed companies that manufacture here in the US. I saved that website but cannot find it now.”

Maybe one of these four?

1. https://www.madeinamerica.co/

2. https://keepamerica.com/

3. https://madeinusaforever.com/

4. https://madeinamericastore.com/

Glock-N-Load

Awesome. Than you Stucky. I think it was #4

Llpoh
Llpoh

Wip – those are they. Most anything you want can be found built in the USA. I again recommend to everyone that they use those sites and find American made products.

Just John
Just John

I haven’t signed up for Walmart + YET, but am going to take a better look at it now. I’ve had nothing but good experiences with sending things back to Walmart or getting a refund or replacement so I’m relatively happy with Walmart.
Having said that, is it really any better option than Amazon? Walmart has worked hand in hand with the govt on many occasions in the past so I have to think that Walmart is a close associate of the Deep State too. After all, it is a Mega Corp like Amazon and many others. All of them are limiting what we can get and where we can get it and that isn’t good for any of us. I also remember all of the small businesses Walmart put out of business when they rolled into town to take over the retail business. Just saying.

Rob157
Rob157

During WW2, Sam Walton helped oversee Japanese Internment Camps…

Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly

Craven, If the businesses and (likely but not stated) in your town/city are as you describe, you should move. A lot easier said than done, I know, but it sounds like you are in territory entirely controlled by people who will do you wrong at every turn, and with or without instructions.

I am no Wal Mart fan (though I do shop there, with no mask required) but… Wal Mart started and grew as an organic enterprise, not as the creature of the Deep State /Globalist crowd. Looks to me like the company left that business model and attitude a long time ago, but there is a kernel of honest business in that organization. There is no such kernel in Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Ali-Baba, MS…. no root of goodness at all. I shop at Wal Mart and do not feel dirty about it, for whatever that is worth. I could not say the same if I shopped at Amazon

Mustang
Mustang

Craven, I understand your frustration. Some alternatives that might work are ebay and buying from a companies website and buying from a mail order catalog. Sometimes this doesn’t work because the company uses Amazon to ship their products. I recently ordered a Ratchet off of ebay because I refuse to deal with Amazon. They shipped the Ratchet using Amazon!!! Oh well, I tried.

James
James

Brian,well put.

I cancelled me amazon years ago,never did feces book/twaddle/locked in ect.

I will say tis getting harder and harder to deal with as all these folks get/have gone woke,that said,worth the effort.

Mygirl....maybe

Never cared for Amazon. I shop Walmart because they generally have the best prices and when prepping every penny counts.

brian
brian

Been saying the same things for a long time now… QUIT funding the enemy.

Its a war…

Mustang
Mustang

AMEN Brian!!! Please people, Jeff Bezos is a hard core Communist/Leftist that supports every Lunatic, Left Wing cause with his billions and works hard to oppose every Conservative/Christian cause. Please, please, please do not patronize Amazon. You are voting for your own demise. Shop at your local brick and mortar store that provides jobs for your fellow citizens.

Stucky

I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE to all of TBP — especially Cassandra (AoC) and Stephanie — for minimizing and joking around about the severity of Twitter’s bans. I deserved every thumbs down. I was incredibly naive … probably because I am, as Stephanie said, and old man out of touch with technology.

I am sorry. Really.

Sincerely

Craven Warrior
Craven Warrior

Takes character to admit that one is wrong. Ten thumbs up.

James
James

Stuckman,you apologized,enuff said.

I will see you at least saw some errors in your thinking and corrected them,that attitude of learning perhaps you were wrong always goes a long way towards being right in the long run.

On a side note,would have given you a gold star but the thumb only thing available!

James
James

I would really like to see that since we are in a war of censorship some patriot minded computer types throw some monkey wrenches into some of these platforms.

Mygirl....maybe
Glock-N-Load

ANY entity that goes against freedom is wrong. Simply wrong, whether “private” or not. And once there are no alternatives we are all fucked.

Centralization is the disease.

factual
factual

Not a total curmudgeon set in his ways. Respect!
Fact!

Mygirl....maybe

Stucky, it isn’t just you, there are lots of people out there who haven’t quite grasped what is happening with the bans and derision heaped on Trump and his supporters. I don’t twitter or facebook or social media and I initially wasn’t paying attention either.
The key and most important thing here is that you are awake, aware and not hiding your head in the sand.
No apologies necessary.

Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings
Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings

Well Stucky, stuff that was just silly shit a decade ago and should have stayed that way is like a little bump we ignored that turned into a bigass tumor threatening our very existence. You and I got along just fine without it. My kids don’t use it. Somehow a shit ton of others let it take them over. Now we all deal with the consequences.

overthecliff
overthecliff

A good man can apologize for being wrong. A bad man can not apologize for being evil. Stuck is a good man who is wrong from time to time but never evil.

Articles of Confederation

especially Cassandra (AoC)

LOL! At least do me the courtesy of making it Cassie, and whistle. I may even dutifully come home.

Karl gets it…I need to email him and discuss some ideers I have.

This sort of rot — where even direct credible evidence of felony abuse of children is ignored if you’re the “right” person and if you’re the “wrong” person no crime is required for you to be effectively thrown out of both business and society is exactly how you get a dirty civil war. This is direct Communism; mere improper thought leads to sanction while the protected can literally do anything with impunity.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241193

Glock-N-Load

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ticky
ticky

Gab.com is better. Parler is a trap.

Glock-N-Load

Is there any truth to the rumor that Gab is going to release it’s own phone?

brian
brian

ooohhh A mormon temple and I’m not even wearing my magic underwears… am I in trouble???

Stucky

Even the formerly pro-Trump NY Post is turning against Trump. headline yesterday …. “Bully loses his Twitter”.

I know it’s OK to be mad at Trump. At the same time, is it also OK to kind of feel sorry for him? I do …. I mean, being BETRAYED by so many (supposedly) former “allies” …. well, that’s a tough pill for any human to swallow.

Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings
Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings

On the bright side, the traitors and squishes are mostly all now self-identified. Anybody here willing to open the fort door during an attack to let Sasse, Romney, Thune, Kinzinger or Collins and Murkowski in? In fact, we know who to stake out for Zombie bait while we high tail it out the back.

Mygirl....maybe

Stucky, as you know, my mother was born and raised in Hitler’s Germany. Her aunt, a wealthy woman, became a member of the Nazi Party. She did so not out of belief but because, had she not, the Nazi’s wouldn’t have allowed her to continue in her business. She passed away several years ago and my mother (now also deceased) flew to Germany to settle her estate. Mother had Tante’s estate boxed and shipped to the states.
We unpacked several dishes with the swastika and eagle emblem and….a menorah with the middle candle holder sawed off. I still have that menorah.

Trump is betrayed, he will be hounded and persecuted, ditto his family if the democrat/leftists win this coup.
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Ken31
Ken31

Maybe when you get older you will understand how malleable the “truth” is, even for people who were there. Memory is even less reliable.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Trump just wasn’t up to the job. He didn’t have the right aptitude. There’s a reason politics is done by politicians. You need to know how to not say stupid (even if hilarious) shit that your enemies will use against you – whether they distort it or not. All politicians have enemies and those enemies will always use whatever they can against you, but you don’t have to make it easier for them. The fact that the entire media, entertainment and educational establishments are all leftists isn’t fair, but that isn’t going to change and life isn’t fair. I enjoyed Trump’s bombasticity (if that’s a word). It was occasionally hilarious, but a lot of people have zero sense of humor and even more people take offense at every little thing. He’s probably fucked it up for a nationalist for a long while – maybe forever – but if we get another one anytime soon, he’s (it’ll probably be a “he”) going to have to do the important stuff stealthily. Trump’s “Muslim ban” (which was ENTIRELY constitutional AND smart) applied to 7 countries that almost perfectly coincided with the countries that the Obama Administration had applied additional scrutiny to. Trump should have just dialed up the scrutiny quietly. Teddy Roosevelt said “speak softly, but carry a big stick”. Trump was like “bellow loudly and carry a toothpick”. Plus he almost always eventually caved – just like on the latest coronavirus stimulus package. His own team negotiated half of it, then he said he would veto it, then he signed it. What was the point of that?

Stucky

“Teddy Roosevelt said “speak softly, but carry a big stick”.”

“Trump was like “bellow loudly and carry a toothpick”. “

Well, sumvabitch … that pretty much sums it all up perfectly.

overthecliff
overthecliff

This is just the beginning. MAGAs whether Trumptards or not will become targets for intimidation and persecution or worse. The Red Guard will visit our homes and intimidate our employers. The police will not protect and serve. Kim Gardner will prosecute us if we defend ourselves. Our civil liberties will be like those of conservatives on the college campus. Shouted down restricted and harassed. We are entering a very dark time in our history. The beast we have feared is here.

Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings
Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings

What the hell is wrong with you? Whoever actually did it, people I identify with are being blamed for seizing the f’ing Capitol Building of the United States and didn’t even have any weapons. You think actual organized groups with hardware could not bring this shitshow to its knees?

Ken31
Ken31

There is absolutely negative reasons to trust Parler. Just because the system is insane, doesn’t mean Parler isn’t part of the problem.

Rob157
Rob157

Any minute now, just ask Q!

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

This is why The Saker moved to servers based in Iceland. WrongThought websites are going to have their infrastructure based elsewhere – perhaps in several countries. I’m hearing that browsers like Opera and Brave are better for privacy. And Protonmail for e-mail.

The woke mob will next be targeting banking.

Mustang
Mustang

A viable alternative to Wallyworld is Dollar General.

Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings
Harrington Richardson: They Are Quislings

Same Chicom garbage.

Rossa
Rossa

Parler was not only deplatformed by AWS, but cut off from email services including for their lawyers. If you were on Parler or know someone who is, Vox is saying who had access to all the data, videos etc and who has access now.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/all-parlers-data-are-belong-to-them.html

Chainlink700rt

It’s not hard to find a hacker.
Of course it would be adventurous
that’s what’s going around the web
Parler got hacked.

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