Amazon cutting ties with Parler

[Klaus]

@george-k said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

In its lawsuit, Parler claimed that, without Amazon's support, "Parler is finished as it has no way to get online." Parler also said that switching to a different service provider, like Epik, in order to host its platform would require significant changes to its website, which would cause the website to go offline for a "financially devastating period."

Wait a second, didn't Parler claim elsewhere that it will take them a week at most to move to a different cloud service?

[Axtremus]

The overall DNS infrastructure still points to Epik's servers (ns3.epik.com, ns4.epik.com) as authoritative for the "Parler.com" domain. Per the article @George-K quoted, Parler has registered with Epik. So it looks like overall DNS as a system is still on the up and up, no one is "blocking" or misdirecting the DNS lookups for "Parler.com". It's Epik's name servers that return 0.0.0.0 for "Parler.com", so that's strictly between Epik and Parler.

If the deal with Epik falls through, Parler should still be able to get access to the Internet, get a couple of static IP addresses, then it can run its own servers and make its own servers the authoritative name servers.

[Jolly]

And how long does that take?

We're talking 9,000,000 subscribers, growing by 600,000 per day.

[89th]

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

Half-billion dollar company wiped out in 24 hours.
Enjoy!

I wonder if Trump is proud of his negative effect, he's like the anti-King Midas.

[Jolly]

@89th said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

Half-billion dollar company wiped out in 24 hours.
Enjoy!

I wonder if Trump is proud of his negative effect, he's like the anti-King Midas.

I wonder if you'll actually consider how much this resembles the modern manifestation of McCarthyism?

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

@89th said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

Half-billion dollar company wiped out in 24 hours.
Enjoy!

I wonder if Trump is proud of his negative effect, he's like the anti-King Midas.

I wonder if you'll actually consider how much this resembles the modern manifestation of McCarthyism?

Ann Coulter has said that Joe McCarthy was a great American. I wonder if she's on board with the current trend.

[89th]

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

@89th said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

@jolly said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

Half-billion dollar company wiped out in 24 hours.
Enjoy!

I wonder if Trump is proud of his negative effect, he's like the anti-King Midas.

I wonder if you'll actually consider how much this resembles the modern manifestation of McCarthyism?

Hey if BLM had stormed the Capitol while it was in session, to try and prevent the election of a Republican, resulting in 5 deaths, etc...and Amazon and other commercial companies decided to deplatform BLM, I’d be fine with it too. I’d imagine so would you?

[Klaus]

Checked today. Parler is still basically down, except for a static front page.

A good software engineer who is worth this money would have managed to set up their software on a different cloud system within a few days.

I wonder what's holding them back.

[Axtremus]

Maybe Parler cannot get a good software engineer to work for it?

Like Trump cannot get a good lawyer to defend him in his impeachment trial.

[Klaus]

@axtremus said in Amazon cutting ties with Parler:

Maybe Parler cannot get a good software engineer to work for it?

Possibly. I imagine that it could be a big potential disadvantage for a software engineer to have Parler in their resume.

[jon-nyc]

Maybe January 6th scared Rebecca Mercer straight.

[Axtremus]

It looks like Parler is back online.