<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>Most users of parlor are not technical people and don&amp;#x27;t understand anything about it. The reason why parlor got popular is because it was easy for disinformation to be spread and people want to believe in it.&lt;p&gt;For example when that at&amp;amp;t network center was bombed there was a fake image going around that it &amp;quot;wasn&amp;#x27;t the van that exploded&amp;quot;. I had someone try to &amp;quot;prove to me&amp;quot; it was true by linking me to parlor and it&amp;#x27;s users creating conspiracies on top of conspiracies. The users there will accept disinformation and made up conspiracies if it benefits their team.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s sadly the reality of it. People that don&amp;#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet. They don&amp;#x27;t understand the concept of &lt;i&gt;people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;A classical example of &amp;quot;my ignorance is just as good as your education because I don&amp;#x27;t know any better.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>thepangolino</author><text>I personally never understood the the appeal of Parler, be it on a technical standpoint or privacy and freedom of speech. Especially compared to Gab.</text></item><item><author>35fbe7d3d5b9</author><text>Parler now looks to be hosted through a company called SkySilk:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    parler.com. IN A 216.246.208.249
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&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rdap.arin.net&amp;#x2F;registry&amp;#x2F;ip&amp;#x2F;216.246.208.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rdap.arin.net&amp;#x2F;registry&amp;#x2F;ip&amp;#x2F;216.246.208.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;SkySilk appears to specialize in VPCs and cloud hosting, not colocation.  Their AUP doesn&amp;#x27;t appear to give Parler much relief either[1]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t imagine this arrangement lasts too long.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.skysilk.com&amp;#x2F;aup&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.skysilk.com&amp;#x2F;aup&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;People that don&amp;#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your elitist, anti-inclusive rhetoric is unnecessary.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t understand the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If one of the main claims is &amp;quot;the media lies&amp;quot; then obviously they understand that.&lt;p&gt;There are valid criticisms but these are not them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>Most users of parlor are not technical people and don&amp;#x27;t understand anything about it. The reason why parlor got popular is because it was easy for disinformation to be spread and people want to believe in it.&lt;p&gt;For example when that at&amp;amp;t network center was bombed there was a fake image going around that it &amp;quot;wasn&amp;#x27;t the van that exploded&amp;quot;. I had someone try to &amp;quot;prove to me&amp;quot; it was true by linking me to parlor and it&amp;#x27;s users creating conspiracies on top of conspiracies. The users there will accept disinformation and made up conspiracies if it benefits their team.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s sadly the reality of it. People that don&amp;#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet. They don&amp;#x27;t understand the concept of &lt;i&gt;people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;A classical example of &amp;quot;my ignorance is just as good as your education because I don&amp;#x27;t know any better.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>thepangolino</author><text>I personally never understood the the appeal of Parler, be it on a technical standpoint or privacy and freedom of speech. Especially compared to Gab.</text></item><item><author>35fbe7d3d5b9</author><text>Parler now looks to be hosted through a company called SkySilk:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    parler.com. IN A 216.246.208.249
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&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rdap.arin.net&amp;#x2F;registry&amp;#x2F;ip&amp;#x2F;216.246.208.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rdap.arin.net&amp;#x2F;registry&amp;#x2F;ip&amp;#x2F;216.246.208.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;SkySilk appears to specialize in VPCs and cloud hosting, not colocation.  Their AUP doesn&amp;#x27;t appear to give Parler much relief either[1]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t imagine this arrangement lasts too long.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.skysilk.com&amp;#x2F;aup&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.skysilk.com&amp;#x2F;aup&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooker</author><text>&amp;gt; People that don&amp;#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet.&lt;p&gt;Do you understand the physics and engineering of all the tech you use?</text></comment>