Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

[BlueGin]

Parler is not back online.

 

[Correll]

How odd...that a site that purports to be all about patriotism is going to be a client of a Russian company that has been linked to social media disinformation attacks in the US?

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

On Monday, Parler's website was reachable again, though only with a message from its chief executive saying he was working to restore functionality.
The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.
If the website is fully restored, Parler users would be able to see and post comments. Most users prefer the app, however, which remains banned from the official Apple Inc and Google stores.
Parler CEO John Matze and representatives of DDoS-Guard did not reply to requests for comment.
Last Wednesday, Matze told Reuters the company was in talks with multiple service providers but declined to elaborate.
DDoS-Guard has worked with other racist, rightist and conspiracy sites that have been used by mass murderers to share messages, including 8kun. It has also supported Russian government sites.
DDoS-Guard's website lists an address in Scotland under the company name Cognitive Cloud LP, but that is owned by two men in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Guilmette said. One of them told the Guardian recently that he was not aware of all of the content the company facilitates.

Parler critics said it was a potential security risk for it to depend on a Russian company, as well as an odd choice for a site popular with self-described patriots.

Russian propaganda has stoked political divisions in the United States, supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and amplifying false narratives about election fraud but also protests against police brutality.
Parler, which disclosed it has over 12 million users, sued Amazon last Monday after the e-commerce giant and cloud services provider cut off service, citing poor moderation of calls to violence.

You people have made the Russians into the supporters of Free Speech.

INcredible.

That's exactly what many people are thinking.

Russia is a dictatorship (not too brutal if you keep your mouth shut).

The USA is supposedly a democracy. Vice President Pence called it the "freest country in the world." Well, that's the cliche that we have all been brought up to believe in.

What a hoot to think that Russia (of all countries) is stepping in to help Americans maintain the fiction that freedom of speech exists in this country.

I would not be surprised if Mr. Biden's administration asks Russia to close down Parler.

Agreed.

 

[August West]

Anyway....y'all won (by fraud), so why the continual anger? What happened to "unity"?

You have 26 hours to prove fraud. WTF are you waiting for?

 

[Godboy]

How odd...that a site that purports to be all about patriotism is going to be a client of a Russian company that has been linked to social media disinformation attacks in the US?

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

On Monday, Parler's website was reachable again, though only with a message from its chief executive saying he was working to restore functionality.
The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.
If the website is fully restored, Parler users would be able to see and post comments. Most users prefer the app, however, which remains banned from the official Apple Inc and Google stores.
Parler CEO John Matze and representatives of DDoS-Guard did not reply to requests for comment.
Last Wednesday, Matze told Reuters the company was in talks with multiple service providers but declined to elaborate.
DDoS-Guard has worked with other racist, rightist and conspiracy sites that have been used by mass murderers to share messages, including 8kun. It has also supported Russian government sites.
DDoS-Guard's website lists an address in Scotland under the company name Cognitive Cloud LP, but that is owned by two men in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Guilmette said. One of them told the Guardian recently that he was not aware of all of the content the company facilitates.

Parler critics said it was a potential security risk for it to depend on a Russian company, as well as an odd choice for a site popular with self-described patriots.

Russian propaganda has stoked political divisions in the United States, supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and amplifying false narratives about election fraud but also protests against police brutality.
Parler, which disclosed it has over 12 million users, sued Amazon last Monday after the e-commerce giant and cloud services provider cut off service, citing poor moderation of calls to violence.

I guess when people get censored they become desperate. Its a shame that Amricans would even need to resort to such a thing.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Parler is not back online.

Partially...website only..no phone app...and just a promise post.

 

[toobfreak]

How odd...that a site that purports to be all about patriotism is going to be a client of a Russian company that has been linked to social media disinformation attacks in the US?

How odd? Don't you mean how depressing that a company trying to champion FREE SPEECH to voice your opinions unfettered gets server access more easily from a foreign country than it can right here in the USA?

 

[badger2]

The Chinese want to buy the Russian Far East. If that happens, more than Palin’s church will get roughed up. And it was the Russian, Chodorov, in his Fugitive Essays, who was on it. There he makes the distinction between American self-interest, the kind that build’s small businesses, and selfishness, that violent narcissism that loots, burns, and wants free shit. And what happens to the real estate? We’ve only to point to today’s article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, though it will cost Whitey to read it in its entirety:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee and Wisconsin breaking news and investigations

Milwaukee and Wisconsin news, sports, business, opinion, entertainment, lifestyle and investigative reporting from the Journal Sentinel and JSOnline.com.

www.jsonline.com

’Business. Milwaukee Real Estate Market Hits Record Sales in 2020
(Content available only to subscribers).’

We examined the three-dimensional newspaper, and what the victim-scapegoat cannot see from the paper’s main page is that the article leaves out BLM’s baboonish preemptive racist violence and destruction, while stressing that the phenomenon is related to the Chinese virus. The photo shows the black family, so that the reader has no racist questions about the decrease in property values after the people have fled.

Americans had better think more rigorously about alternate media of the future rather than continue as prisoners of the whims of the Screenal Space Pimp.

 

[Disir]

What is the surprise here? Trumpers make known their love of Russia and Putin nearly every day on this forum and others. Seriously, given this attitude I don’t know how any Trumper could get a security clearance. They are admitted security risks.

Seriously? You went to school with these people. You have to work with these people. You drive on the road with these people. They are in your neighborhoods. Your children play together.

Is there something wrong with you?

Do you think "these/those people" , the trumpets, think the same way about their neighbors that are not Trumpists?

In my area they do. Political parties are not yet a part of their core identity.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

What is the surprise here? Trumpers make known their love of Russia and Putin nearly every day on this forum and others. Seriously, given this attitude I don’t know how any Trumper could get a security clearance. They are admitted security risks.

Seriously? You went to school with these people. You have to work with these people. You drive on the road with these people. They are in your neighborhoods. Your children play together.

Is there something wrong with you?

Do you think "these/those people" , the trumpets, think the same way about their neighbors that are not Trumpists?

In my area they do. Political parties are not yet a part of their core identity.

This is true in my area as well. Most of my friends are Trump voters...good people, hard working and giving. If politics is an issue..we do the civilized thing..and just don't talk about it.
Most have moved on..from the election...some bought into the fraud narrative--a couple are starkers!

But I'd help them in a heartbeat..if they needed it..and them me. USMB is not the world..far from it.

 

[theHawk]

How odd...that a site that purports to be all about patriotism is going to be a client of a Russian company that has been linked to social media disinformation attacks in the US?

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

On Monday, Parler's website was reachable again, though only with a message from its chief executive saying he was working to restore functionality.
The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.
If the website is fully restored, Parler users would be able to see and post comments. Most users prefer the app, however, which remains banned from the official Apple Inc and Google stores.
Parler CEO John Matze and representatives of DDoS-Guard did not reply to requests for comment.
Last Wednesday, Matze told Reuters the company was in talks with multiple service providers but declined to elaborate.
DDoS-Guard has worked with other racist, rightist and conspiracy sites that have been used by mass murderers to share messages, including 8kun. It has also supported Russian government sites.
DDoS-Guard's website lists an address in Scotland under the company name Cognitive Cloud LP, but that is owned by two men in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Guilmette said. One of them told the Guardian recently that he was not aware of all of the content the company facilitates.

Parler critics said it was a potential security risk for it to depend on a Russian company, as well as an odd choice for a site popular with self-described patriots.

Russian propaganda has stoked political divisions in the United States, supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and amplifying false narratives about election fraud but also protests against police brutality.
Parler, which disclosed it has over 12 million users, sued Amazon last Monday after the e-commerce giant and cloud services provider cut off service, citing poor moderation of calls to violence.

Pretty sad when Russia companies promote free speech platforms more than US companies. Although it’s only companies led by leftwing bozos that are suppressing free speech.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

What is the surprise here? Trumpers make known their love of Russia and Putin nearly every day on this forum and others. Seriously, given this attitude I don’t know how any Trumper could get a security clearance. They are admitted security risks.

Seriously? You went to school with these people. You have to work with these people. You drive on the road with these people. They are in your neighborhoods. Your children play together.

Is there something wrong with you?

I think these leftists actually want us to start a war and exterminate them. They are practically begging for it with full knowledge that we are all heavily armed.

 

[Lesh]

How odd? Don't you mean how depressing that a company trying to champion FREE SPEECH to voice your opinions unfettered gets server access more easily from a foreign country than it can right here in the USA?

What's "odd" is that the site on which the Capitol Insurrection was planned...is now being hosted by a RUSSIAN company