Parler is back

 William Jacobson:

Despite the attempts of the cabal of Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, and many other high tech monsters to take it down, Parler has been brought back to life.

It’s unclear if Parler is completely back, but I just logged in and the Legal Insurrection page is up and running and we still have almost 400,000 followers. Our prior “parleys” have not populated yet, but I assume that will take time.

The prior Parler App on my iPhone still doesn’t work.

If it holds, this will be one of the great — perhaps the first great — victory over the Big Tech oligopolies who control so much of our lives.

Parler was falsely blamed as being the hub on which the Capitol Hill Riot was planned, but examination of DOJ indictments shows that Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter were the central hubs — yet no one shut them down. Fuzzy covered the findings in Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters.

Parler was shut down because it was viewed as a place for Trump supporters, the rest of the excuses were pretext.
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I think Trump himself was the target of the shutdown.  It was one more aspect of the left's cancel culture and it was being applied to the President of the United States.  I am glad Parler is back, but I still had trouble logging in to it.  Hopefully, it will be fully operational soon.

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