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

Post by macintux » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

mleonhard wrote: post #486

mr_overalls wrote: post #365

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I don't care if my personal information was leaked. I followed discussions, posted a comment or two like, "What evidence do you have for that?" There seemed to be tons of other accounts that did the same, along with accounts by obvious Lefts who were there to troll. I highly doubt there will be blowback for the kind of participation I did. I am absolutely a privacy advocate. However, in the case where the continued e…

I don't understand your claim that terrorists are a threat to our democracy. As long as most of the people in the country believe in democracy, the country will continue to have democracy. The real threat to democracy is allowing leaders to stop following the democratic process. For example, on 02021-01-06, 147 congresspeople voted to throw out the votes from an entire state, even after their party had pursued the ap…

Post by cbozeman » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

evgen wrote: post #433

nilkn wrote: post #356

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Because they're not going to investigate all 4+ million Parler accounts to distinguish between those involved and those not. Many folks here are just assuming everyone on Parler was a terrorist or complicit in what happened. The poster's name and phone number are now lumped in with everyone else's. All we can hope is they made the effort to use fake information.

No one will be judged for having an account, because a lot of people were signed up just to monitor and watch. It is trivial to claim that you only signed up for that reason and to expect the claim to stick. If you happened to be frequently posting the chronicles of the elders of zion or talking about how you wanted to pursue an ammo box solution to a ballot box loss then you are going to have a lot more explaining t…

Post by ookblah » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

brigandish wrote: post #390

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #293

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What I don't understand is: if you're going to host something like Parler, knowing that it is extremely controversial, why wouldn't you host it yourselves? The money they would have saved over using AWS (at the scale quoted in the previous comments) could have paid for the servers and the people to manage them. I suppose the deplatformers would have just gone after whatever data center they used, though, or if they'd…

> knowing that it is extremely controversial Aside from it being sad that supporting free speech is controversial, if we assume good faith in the founders' statements then the controversy is simply the way the media has highlighted a section of the user base. Have you been on there? I haven't but I've been around long enough not to rely on the media for accurate representations of groups on the internet (or much else…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

mcast wrote: post #373

I tried to sign up for Parler out of curiosity when I heard it was being removed from app stores, but as soon as it required a phone number for account registration I deleted the app. I'm surprised it also didn't require a social security number and credit card as well. /s

Post by leereeves » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

lghh wrote: post #481

whimsicalism wrote: post #435

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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

That claim about the Crime Bill is mostly accurate. The vast, vast, vast, majority of incarceration is the fault of states and not done at a federal level. While the bill was deplorable, it didn't really contribute all that much. https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/1128369019164200960?la...