Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

[JazzNU]

[ponchi101]

About frigging time!!!!!!!
And, Joe. Time for congress to regulate some of these platforms, from the point of view of what people can post. This example tells you how powerful this dystopian tools can be.

[shtexas]

Google has kicked Parler out of its app store over inciting violence concerns.

Apple may follow.

[ponchi101]

Ok, great. But it took this for these companies to start doing it? And you know it is simply because he has 12 days left.
Again, thanks and great. But it took almost a tragedy at the center of your republic before these steps were taken. While this has been spoken about for years now.

[JazzNU]

Mediaite: Parler CEO says it took down post from Lin Wood calling for Mike Pence's execution

By Kate Sullivan

(CNN)The CEO of Parler, a social media platform popular among conservatives, told Mediaite that it removed a post from attorney Lin Wood calling for Vice President Mike Pence to be executed by "firing squads."

"Yes, some of his parleys that violated our rules were taken down," John Matze told Mediaite, specifying that the post, or parley, about the "firing squads" was among those removed.

Wood, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, told CNN, "I made NO threat. I do not believe in violence. I do believe in the rule of law."

"I have reliable evidence that Pence has a engaged in acts of treason. My comments were rhetorical hyperbole. Any journalist should understand that concept. If my information is accurate, law enforcement will address what punishment, if any, should be administered to Pence as they do with all criminals," Wood said.

Wood posted on Parler on Thursday, according to Mediate, "They let them in. Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST."

White House spokesman Judd Deere told CNN in a statement, "We strongly condemn all calls to violence, including those against any member of this administration."

A spokesperson for the United States Secret Service told CNN, "We are aware of the comments and take all threats against our protectees seriously."
CNN has reached out to Parler for comment.

Wood is an attorney who focuses on civil litigation and has experience in First Amendment and defamation litigation, according to his website. He is an attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting of two men and the wounding of another in August during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He also represented Kentucky high school student Nicholas Sandmann, who settled a lawsuit with CNN after being at the center of a viral video controversy.

Wood was permanently banned from Twitter this week after promoting the riots at the US Capitol on Wednesday, according to BuzzFeed News. Wood was at first temporarily suspended for a tweet that incited violence, and then permanently banned after Wood said he would begin posting from another account, according to BuzzFeed.

Amazon will remove Parler from its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services, on Sunday evening, effectively kicking it off of the public Internet after mounting pressure from the public and Amazon employees. The decision, which goes into force on Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, effectively shuts down Parler's website until it can find a new Web hosting provider. BuzzFeed News was first to report the move.

Parler was recently removed from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Google told CNN it was aware of "continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the US," and that its app store requires "apps implement robust moderation for egregious content." Apple told CNN in a statement that Parler had not taken "adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety."

The platform has billed itself as a free speech alternative in order to attract conservatives who say larger platforms are censoring their views.
The suspension of Parler from the Google Play store came the same day Twitter banned Trump's @realDonaldTrump account from its platform, "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." The suspension came after Trump incited a mob that rioted at the US Capitol and left five people dead.

CNN's Evan Perez, Jeremy Diamond and Brian Fung contributed to this report.

[ponchi101]

The problem is how do you regulate these platforms (and you know where I stand about social media)? You come indeed again to the American 1st Amendment, and the complex issue of what is free speech and where do its limits end.
Mind you, were I king for a day I would vanish twitter, IG and FB. I believe the contributions pale in comparison to the bad aspects. But I am not. So, what do you do with them to avoid massive population manipulation?

[JazzNU]

Buried in the article above is this very important piece of information. Much, much more significant than Google and Apple taking them down from their app stores even though that is still huge, but no server means no site. They will be offline and in search of a new host. But these companies aren't merely bailing because of what happened on Wednesday and future threats of violence and the good of the country, they are bailing because they are trying to get as far away as possible from all versions of criminal and civil liability linked to any of this. The new company that takes on Parler will be taking on that liability, and with it, the potential that their servers get shut down by the feds pending investigation. My guess is they'll need to find a international hosting company with non-exist country laws to take on that risk.

[ponchi101]

As I had to do some research on servers while I was setting this site up, I believe that their best option would be a server of their own. The criminal enterprises that have helped them all along (Bannon, Stone, etc) can easily find the financing and locating that lovely island where the law will not reach them (Vanuatu?) is not very hard.
Developing an app is also not very hard, specially if they did already. It will not be found in Google Play or the iStore, but just a simple download from a site could get you connected.
it will take a while before a proper law-enforcement solution can be found for these people. And I mean the people that deserve to be locked up, thinking. If they are capable of that.

[JazzNU]

Well, I see web developers laughing at their "we'll be back in a week" claims so fairly certain, given their traffic that was so great it knocked them offline for a bit Thursday or Friday, the server they'd need would be massive, more like a server farm. So no small feet in setting it up.

This is basically the exact path that other sites promoting and celebrating violent hate speech have taken. They might find a new hosting service, but there is no guarantee it will last. Many have struggled to stay online, but the ones that do, they tend to land on some semi-shady foreign hosting service.

Apps need servers too.

[ponchi101]

Maybe some servers at the KGB?

[JazzNU]

In case you missed it, the real victim of last week's attempted coup? Melania. Can't make this ish up.

[ponchi101]

Do you believe she understands the meaning of salacious? Somebody else wrote that, if not a bot.

[ti-amie]

Her professional flak resigned. Maybe Hope Hicks wrote that mess.

[JazzNU]

Someone else always writes her stuff, but given how pitiful this is, not sure what middle schooler they found to put this out for her. Doubtful it's Hope Hicks, I don't think Melania wants to use her replacement for anything but leverage to up the amounts in her prenup.

[JazzNU]