The Donald vs Big Tech

[astfgyl]

Get the Ministry of Truth Fact Checkers on it. They can reassure us that everything is right in the world.

[Kurt Cocaine]

WhatsApp in on it too....

https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-forcing-users-to-share-personal-data-facebook-elon-musk-2021-1?r=US&IR=T

[open face surgery]

Claims that it will not effect EU and UK users.

[Caomhaoin]

I think Parler is the only place alt-light (not a typo) comedians like Gavin McInnes can just be enjoyed for what they are instead screeching about him being Hitler.

Kudos to the Comissar for Re-Education and saboteur liquidation for going against the party line (I hope you're not going to be digitally erased from that selfie with Soros and end up in the boot of a Renault megane!)

[pete]

Google have suspended Parler from the play store, not a massive issue on android, but rumours of Apple doing the same if moderation is not brought in.

https://www.droid-life.com/2021/01/08/google-bans-parler-from-google-play/

and doesn't data pillage. No, can't have that.

Interesting, how do they manage to prove this? Would be interested in reading about it you've some links.

I heard one of the founders say it on the news this morning, how they prove it, I have no idea.

Haha fair play! Maybe we should dig a little deeper.

[pete]

Actually I see Rebekah Mercer is a co-founder of Parler:  https://www.reuters.com/article/parler-funding-mercer-idUSKBN27V020

The Mercers are an interesting read, Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and more.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yup, should be obvious by now that the enemy of your enemy is not by that merit alone your friend, whether that's GAFAs acting as the enemy of Trump all of a sudden, or things like Parler emerging as an adversary to FB and Twitter. A top personal responsibility is really to be more alert to this kind of psychological subterfuge. Personally, I wouldn't trust anyone at the head of Parler any more than I'd trust Zuckerberg. I won't call it any more than that for the moment, but there's certainly some very dark smoke coming off them:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-predicted-parler-is-banning-users-it-doesnt-like.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201116/01141545710/what-if-cambridge-analytica-owned-own-social-network-ca-backer-rebekah-mercer-admits-shes-co-founder-parler.shtml

Oh, and they've got access to a lot more private data than Facebook, Google or Twitter do. Hell, Matze practically brags to a Forbes reporter how he has all sorts of private data on the "leftist trolls" he's trying to ban:

"Matze knows the leftists' ages of the trolls, as he calls them, because some verified their accounts, coughing up selfies and driver's licenses or passports (a set of highly unusual requirements for proving identity and registering for an online account)."

Twitter doesn't require you to upload your driver's license. Also, if you want to have a verified account on Parler, you're required to hand over your Social Security Number as well.

Basically, the Mercers are building a huge database of gullible idiots that they can now market propaganda to directly, cutting out the Facebook middleman. I'm curious how it was a huge problem when it was happening by Facebook, but somehow fine when it's all directly on the Mercer's own social network?

[pete]

Their privacy policy discusses how they share your data: https://legal.parler.com/documents/privacypolicy.pdf in the section titled "How We Share the Information We Collect".

And the link to the 3rd party analytics doesn't work for me.
"Analytics Partners. We use may use 3rd party analytics services to collect and process certain
application analytics data. You can learn about our most up-to-date 3rd party programs at this page:
https://home.parler.com/help/"

I guess you could look at the trackers they are using in the app.


And they don't seem to have their source code hosted publicly, but they do like to use Big Tech's open source Frameworks
https://builtwith.com/parler.com

[astfgyl]

Absolutely no surprises there that Parler would be as bad as anywhere else

I'm sure Bitchute and the like are no better, I mean there's a market there which must be seized upon.

[Caomhaoin]

Strange that CNN (judging by their coverage) don't seem to care that much about unarmed people being killed by the police anymore.

[Nazgûl]

...edit , wrong link.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html

That's all they seemed to have said about it actually. Has there been any info into what exactly happened? All I heard is she was shot while standing by a window. I can only assume they thought she may have had a gun.

[Caomhaoin]

That article is about a police officer being killed, the opposite of what I mentioned. The unarmed woman killed by the police was fleetingly mentioned in one paragraph of many.

Or am I missing something?

[Nazgûl]

Yeah sorry man my bad, was updating the post there as you replied.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

She's mentioned in loads of CNN articles. The cop that shot her was immediately placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. What is it you want them to say?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html

The US Capitol Police employee who shot Babbitt has been placed on administrative leave and their police powers have been suspended pending a joint Metro Police and USCP investigation, USCP said.
"This is a tragic incident, and I send my condolences to the victim's family and friends," Metro Police Chief Contee said.
Two people who saw the shooting, left-wing activist John Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Jade Sacker, provided CNN with video of the incident and described the moments beforehand.
Sullivan said rioters were using flag poles and other items to smash glass windows inside the Capitol. The woman then tried to make her way through the window when several people with guns came out through the doorways.
"The second that she climbed through the window she got shot right in the neck area, fell backwards," Sullivan said in an interview that broadcast on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
"I just remember the sense of shock and sorrow that somebody just died and did not need to die."

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hearsay has it that Kevin Greeson, who had a heart-attack, accidentally tasered himself in the testicles which is what provoked the cardiac arrest