(01-10-2021, 05:24 PM)jj82284 Wrote: After being pulled from Amazon Web Services Parler is set to go off line for "A while."  

This isn't a coincidence.  The Incident @ the Capital accelerated events, but the real trigger was the results from the GA runoffs.  As of Jan 20 the Republicans will loose their majority in the Senate, and thus will no longer control any committee chairmanships in either house of congress.  That means not only is the GOP powerless to stop legislation or presidential appointments, we can no longer call hearings or issue subpoenas.  There is no aspect of the Federal government that can hold Big Tech accountable for silencing the opponents of the Democratic Party.  In fact, Execs from Facebook and Twitter have become part of Joe Biden's transition team and are expected to join his administration.  

This isn't about "civil discourse" or any of the hearts stars and rainbow rhetoric that the legacy media is regurgitating to spin this.  This is about complete domination of the arena of ideas.  They kicked us out of the campuses, they have taken over the board rooms, they control the mainstream media, popular culture, most of the career government officials and now they are systemically trying to erase any alternative venue for traditional Americans to express their viewpoint

Sadly, I don't think that the mainstream GOP understands the threat now, let alone 6 to 12 months ago when we really could make a difference.  The more libertarian branch of the caucus like Mike Lee were arguing, as late as this year, that "oh no we can't regulate big Tech...  Their private companies...  We don't want big government."  Nevermind that their very existence is subsidized by government shielding from content liability.  Now we don't have any power to stop the next order 66 to come down the pipe and make it almost impossible for conservatives to express dissent against the coming regime.

I had heard of parler previously but never joined due to the 'phone verification.' Looks like I might have made a mistake. the mainstream social media has decided that anything not radical leftist in thought is not worthy of discussion. Its sad that its come to this, but a free social media is the only way out at this point. Parler is gonna pop when they come back. I expect rapid user growth and a large loss of active users for facebook/twitter/youtube.

The funny thing is that by trying to silence parler, amazon and all the rest have brough much more attention to it.

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