Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business • Hacker News Board

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by wobblyasp » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

j8hn wrote: post #5

The cartels are all acting in unison.

Private companies just want to act in their best interest. Call it what you will, no one wants to be associated with them; and as such they get removed.

Amazon, Google, Facebook, et.al. owe Parler exactly nothing.

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by LatteLazy » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

And yet they are still online (edit: looks like they'll be online with AWS until 1159 PCT, my mistake)

I am pretty sure that coordinated withdrawal of services like this would amount to Tortious Interference wouldn't it?

Given Parler/Foxx's pentant for exaggeration and playing the victim I'm a little incredulous to be honest.

I don't like censorship or support it. Parler should stay, for all its issues. But that doesn't mean they're the victim of some giant conspiracy either.

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by gvv » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

Imagine cheering this as a victory..

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by paxys » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:31 PM UTC

Didn't he just post yesterday that there were many vendors lined up offering to host them after AWS kicked them out, and they would rewrite the app and be up and running in a week?

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by pfisch » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

LatteLazy wrote: post #12

And yet they are still online (edit: looks like they'll be online with AWS until 1159 PCT, my mistake) I am pretty sure that coordinated withdrawal of services like this would amount to Tortious Interference wouldn't it? Given Parler/Foxx's pentant for exaggeration and playing the victim I'm a little incredulous to be honest. I don't like censorship or support it. Parler should stay, for all its issues. But that does…

I mean you can't run a site with no censorship where people are openly plotting the violent takeover of the us government and/or violent events. It is just a liability issue.

This isn't some kind of censorship issue, that just isn't legal and never has been legal.

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by yuppie_scum » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

thefourthchime wrote: post #4

this is entirely not surprising. He’s going to have to go overseas to get service

They’ll be subject to NSA monitoring at that point. Not that the executive branch was keen to act on the intel in plain sight..

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by bpodgursky » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

LatteLazy wrote: post #12

And yet they are still online (edit: looks like they'll be online with AWS until 1159 PCT, my mistake) I am pretty sure that coordinated withdrawal of services like this would amount to Tortious Interference wouldn't it? Given Parler/Foxx's pentant for exaggeration and playing the victim I'm a little incredulous to be honest. I don't like censorship or support it. Parler should stay, for all its issues. But that does…

AWS isn't pulling the plug until tonight. It doesn't mean anything that the site is still up.

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by christiansakai » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

It will eventually be like this anyway. Nothing is preventing them from building stuffs themselves. Even if they and Trump build their own platform, they will have to build their own bare metal server clusters and scatter those across USA. Not to mention they will have to hire and pay actual market salary from DevOps, backend developers, frontend developers, UX designer, testing engineer, security engineer etc. In the end they will burn their money fast just paying those engineers salary building stuffs just for them without the ability to generalize their platform and amortizing the cost like AWS, and they will fold in a few months.

There is no way out. Everything is dead end. You want to isolate yourself from your neighbors. Sure, that is fine, go alone if you want to go fast. Just don't complain when your neighbors are isolating themselves from you.

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by ohhhhhh » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:34 PM UTC

wobblyasp wrote: post #11

j8hn wrote: post #5

The cartels are all acting in unison.

Private companies just want to act in their best interest. Call it what you will, no one wants to be associated with them; and as such they get removed. Amazon, Google, Facebook, et.al. owe Parler exactly nothing.

"don't like twitter, make a new one!"

Re: Parler CEO Says Service Dropped by “Every Vendor” and Could End His Business

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Post by pfisch » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:34 PM UTC

thefourthchime wrote: post #4

this is entirely not surprising. He’s going to have to go overseas to get service

And then what? Get sued into the ground by the family of the slain capitol cop, and the subsequent people that are killed by the "patriots" openly plotting violence on parler?