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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Mon Jan 11, 2021, 08:16 AM Jan 2021

Parler social network drops offline after Amazon pulls support [View all]

Source: BBC

Parler has dropped offline after Amazon pulled support for its so-called "free speech" social network.

The platform had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.

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Google and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.

However, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55615214

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Parler social network drops offline after Amazon pulls support [View all] brooklynite Jan 2021 OP

Womp womp soothsayer Jan 2021 #1

Parler CEO is whining his business could go under twodogsbarking Jan 2021 #2

He can pull himself up by his bootstraps and set up his own servers. NYC Liberal Jan 2021 #5

Being in IT in general... agtcovert Jan 2021 #10

Nobody wants to get caught up in the reckoning. Lasher Jan 2021 #11

Yep..It ain't easy or quick sdfernando Jan 2021 #12

Rebecca mercer can afford it. And maybe the ceo's russian wife has some connection with putin. niyad Jan 2021 #17

With Rebekah Mercer funding it? Doubtful. nt okaawhatever Jan 2021 #7

Maybe he can get the Mercers to build their own internet UpInArms Jan 2021 #18

But not before hackers archived their database and dumped it at the FBI. Lasher Jan 2021 #3

Not to mention all those SSNs that Parler required its cult members to enter in order to DM. Crowman2009 Jan 2021 #6

Makes sense to capture SS# if Putin is behind it. nt okaawhatever Jan 2021 #8

+1 pandr32 Jan 2021 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author Sapient Donkey Jan 2021 #15

With only 9 days before the inauguration Hip2bSquare Jan 2021 #4

"every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us, because, if Apple doesn't approve and Google riversedge Jan 2021 #9

I thought the air smelled a little sweeter BlueIdaho Jan 2021 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author BlueIdaho Jan 2021 #14

I hope Amazon (AWS) preserves the data... NurseJackie Jan 2021 #16

I do not support this at all. Make "Parler" clean up their act first. oldsoftie Jan 2021 #20

Bezos Christ Hath Spoken Swamp Country Po Boy Jan 2021 #21