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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by arbitrage »

grawprog wrote: post #526

>In a press release announcing the decision, Twilio revealed which services Parler was using. This information allowed hackers to deduct that it was possible to create users and verified accounts without actual verification. >With this type of access, newly minted users were able to get behind the login box API used for content delivery. That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allow…

You ask questions like you don't know the answer you're already looking for.

Hate speech is not protected.

Take your fascist apologies somewhere else.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by THE_PUN_STOPS »

QuesnayJr wrote: post #89
whatshisface wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? Wikileaks is where people go to publish evidence of government crimes, not Granddad's chats with his friends.

Wikileaks leaked John Podesta's emails, including such criminal activity as his recipe for risotto.

Here's the recipe for risotto:

https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-crea...

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by jacksonkmarley »

newacct583 wrote: post #88
thomastjeffery wrote: post #39

When you purposefully leak private data, you no longer get to hide behind the title "Security Researcher".

Parler was ground zero for the community that announced and executed the attack on the capitol. Thought leaders there were routinely evoking, imagining, and outright calling for violence, and the crowd was a feedback loop. Fundamentally the Parler community existed to provide a platform for people who had been already banned from Twitter. Frankly the peaceful use of the site was mostly incidental. I think there's a r…

Well, there's this from Glenn Greenwald:

> Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

> Zero.

> The planning was largely done on Facebook.

[0] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293?s=...

edit: bad formatting

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by Wintamute »

beepboopbeep wrote: post #496
bzb6 wrote: post #472

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get an Instagram account and say something against feminism, diversity, fat people, etc and see what happens.

It's not unreasonable for a person instigating something through negative posts to receive negative reactions in return. That seems self evident.

I think the point is that you don't need to make "negative posts" about those topics, rather discussing them from any angle that isn't the accepted progressive orthodoxy results in the ban hammer.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by macintux »

whimsicalism wrote: post #332
gooseus wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you can name a bigger attack on the US that has happened in the last 20 years? Far fewer lives were lost, but the impact and implications of this are on par.

They're just not even remotely the same thing. Nothing like 9/11 or the OKC bombing has happened in the last 19 years; full stop. I have lived in DC my whole life, I hate to see this happening in my city, but we can be honest with ourselves.

This could have led to the public execution of the Vice President and speaker of the house. This came close to being a dramatically worse event.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by hartator »

marcinzm wrote: post #499
hartator wrote: post #489

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not credible death threats.

The following was requested and provided, please stop changing the goal post when you're called out. > single post > on Parler > calling for mass executions

You’re replying to someone else.

I still think these are not legit death threats by the content of it. Saying things like “a good commie is a dead a commie” might be tasteless but it’s far from being a serious thing. No one is killing communists in the US.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by arbitrage »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #39

When you purposefully leak private data, you no longer get to hide behind the title "Security Researcher".

OK, call them hackers then. I'm sure they'll be okay with that appellation, and won't really care about your dithering over the distinction.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

beshrkayali wrote: post #69
stuckindider wrote: post #30

Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.

The ramifications of this will absolutely set a record for the future as the inevitable reverse will happen. People are forgetting that if they're ok with this sort of behavior now, it'll be difficult for them to argue-against or prevent the same behavior when their opposites are in control.

Feel free to doxx all the antifa message boards where we one-up each other with fun new ways to execute our foes.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by debt »

whimsicalism wrote: post #435
liminal wrote: post #420

I see a number of people here describing Parler as "unmoderated", but it turns out they do have extensive moderation [1] that they use to ensure ideological conformity in their posts. Then the most active users were paid for their content too [2]. This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform. [1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506 [2] https://twitter.com/donk_enby…

By that standard, Instagram is a propaganda weapon. It both: a. pays popular users b. Puts warnings on political issues, like statements that Biden's crime bill contributed to mass incarceration [0] [0] https://twitter.com/ben_awareness/status/1339293381625864195

"a. pays popular users"

Source?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Post by muspimerol »

sanedigital wrote: post #364
muspimerol wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no hyperbole in the comment. It can still be a safe haven for extremists even if most of the users are not.

That applies equally to the rest of the internet.

No, not really. It comes down to how you define "safe haven" - if violent groups are actively moderated and banned, then I don't think it can be called a safe haven. How does the rest of the internet equate to Parler in this respect?
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