PSA: Social Media Alert
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1. Parler, a so-called "free speech" social media platform that is popular among President Donald Trump's supporters and others on the far-right, went down on Sunday after Apple and Google removed the company's app from their services and Amazon Web Services refused to continue hosting it.
But its demise may be short-lived, as a Washington State-based web hosting company called Epik has evidently agreed to host the site. Epik serves as a safe haven for other far right sites, such as the notorious right-leaning social network Gab.
2. Parler's data archive is poised to be used to help ID some of the rioters at the Capitol last week. A hacker who goes by @donk_enby was able to archive roughly 99 percent of the content from Parler before it was kicked offline, much of which she described as "very incriminating" against the people who posted it. She explained to Gizmodo that she began by downloading every Parler post from January 6, the day that Trump fomented a coup attempt in Washington which culminated in the Capitol Riot. She is believed to have reverse-engineered Parler's iOS app to find a web address that the company uses to retrieve data on an internal level, later deciding to archive every post that appeared on the site after Amazon said it would no longer serve as a host.
"Unlike many other systems, Parler requires users to provide a photocopy of identification (typically a state driver's license) in order to be 'verified' on the site," former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security Paul Rosenzweig wrote for Lawfare on Monday. "This ID, along with all of the metadata for Parler posts—such as geo tags for images, IP addresses for posters and so on—was available to Parler administrators. Likewise, the actual content of Parler posts—videos, texts, and such—was also available in plain view format to administrators." He pointed out that anyone who used Parler to plan, commit or record crimes during the Capitol Riot could be implicated due to the hack, since it would "in the hands of law enforcement, be a treasure trove of leads and, ultimately, of digital forensic evidence that would be useful in proving individual criminal guilt." — --Matthew Rozsa
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/11/maga-ap…
But its demise may be short-lived, as a Washington State-based web hosting company called Epik has evidently agreed to host the site. Epik serves as a safe haven for other far right sites, such as the notorious right-leaning social network Gab.
2. Parler's data archive is poised to be used to help ID some of the rioters at the Capitol last week. A hacker who goes by @donk_enby was able to archive roughly 99 percent of the content from Parler before it was kicked offline, much of which she described as "very incriminating" against the people who posted it. She explained to Gizmodo that she began by downloading every Parler post from January 6, the day that Trump fomented a coup attempt in Washington which culminated in the Capitol Riot. She is believed to have reverse-engineered Parler's iOS app to find a web address that the company uses to retrieve data on an internal level, later deciding to archive every post that appeared on the site after Amazon said it would no longer serve as a host.
"Unlike many other systems, Parler requires users to provide a photocopy of identification (typically a state driver's license) in order to be 'verified' on the site," former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security Paul Rosenzweig wrote for Lawfare on Monday. "This ID, along with all of the metadata for Parler posts—such as geo tags for images, IP addresses for posters and so on—was available to Parler administrators. Likewise, the actual content of Parler posts—videos, texts, and such—was also available in plain view format to administrators." He pointed out that anyone who used Parler to plan, commit or record crimes during the Capitol Riot could be implicated due to the hack, since it would "in the hands of law enforcement, be a treasure trove of leads and, ultimately, of digital forensic evidence that would be useful in proving individual criminal guilt." — --Matthew Rozsa
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/11/maga-ap…
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Don't hold your breath for any crazy revelations.
You guys are absolutely too much. You engage in actual rioting and "resistance" for 4 years, culminating in months of rioting, protesting, and intimidation, causing billions of dollars in property damage and over 30 deaths all over a literally false narrative, and you have the fucking audacity to carry on over some incident less than 1 percent as much that caused no significant damage, nothing burned down,
The MAGA movement is not going to be intimidated or eliminated. You will fail.
Also who the fuck signs up for a site that requires ID in 2020/21??? That's like next level stupid.
"Federal 'Strike Force' Builds Sedition Cases Against Capitol Rioters. Will It Work?"
— https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956285582…
"New York City Cancels Contracts With Trump Organization"
— https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-el…
"Rep. Tim Ryan: Probe Underway On Whether Members Gave Capitol Tours To Rioters"
— https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-el…
"About 20,000 National Guard Members To Deploy For Inauguration, Officials Say"
— https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-el…
"YouTube Joins Twitter, Facebook In Taking Down Trump's Account After Capitol Siege"
— https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-el…
"Amazon Says Parler Systematically Unwilling To Remove Violent Content"
— https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-el…
My guess is he and Melania are bubble wrapping the stuff they want to take with them and will be heading down to Mar-A-Lago before the weekend and aren't returning to the White House.
I don't honestly think he has the discipline to stop himself from another emotional outburst in the next days/weeks. He is living chaos
Why don't you just overtly call for the suppression of free speech?
Have you got that @ mrorange it really has nothing to do with free speech, it has everything to do with free money.
Why are you damn dirty apes having this conversation in the front room? Isn’t there a separate room just for the erudite political discussions of the members of TUSCL MENSA?
And what makes any of you think your political insights are so valuable if you can’t even figure out the most appropriate place to post them?
Jes’ askin’
So let’s write out the syllogism:
Skifredo claims that whiny little bitches vote for Democrats.
Skifredo is a whiny little bitch.
Therefore, Skifredo votes for Democrats.
Discuss... aah... yup.