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Social media app Parler crawls back online on 'independent technology'

Published 02/15/2021, 12:41 PM
Updated 02/16/2021, 06:35 AM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A screengrab of Parler.com website and Parler CEO John Matze's message on January 16, 2021, reading "Hello world, is this thing on?", seen in this picture obtained on January 17, 2021 from social media

(Reuters) - Parler, a social media service popular with American right-wing users that virtually vanished after the U.S. Capitol riot, re-launched on Monday and said its new platform was built on "sustainable, independent technology."

In a statement announcing the relaunch, Parler also said it had appointed Mark Meckler as its interim Chief Executive, replacing John Matze who was fired by the board this month.

Parler went dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing to police violent content related to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by followers of then-U.S. President Donald Trump.

Despite the relaunch, the website was still not opening for many users and the app was not available for download on mobile stores run by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Alphabet-owned Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which had earlier banned the app.

While several users took to rival Twitter to complain they were unable to access the service, a few others said they could access their existing account.

Parler, which asserted it once had over 20 million users, said it would bring its current users back online in the first week and would be open to new users the next week.

Founded in 2018, the app has styled itself as a "free speech-driven" space and largely attracted U.S. conservatives who disagree with rules around content on other social media sites.

Last month, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) suspended Parler from its web hosting service, effectively taking the site offline. Parler, on Monday, said its new technology cut its reliance on "so-called Big Tech" for its operations.

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Parler seems to be using CloudRoute LLC as its new host and replaced Amazon with open-source software platform Ceph, according https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1361356546471526404 to anonymous computer programmer "Crash override" who goes with the Twitter handle @donk_enby.

The programmer, who https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466 became famous for cataloging almost all the posts of users across Parler from the day of the Capitol riot, tweeted on Monday that user accounts were still there in the new platform but posts, images and videos were wiped.

Parler and CloudRoute did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"Parler is being run by an experienced team and is here to stay," said Meckler, who had co-founded the Tea Party Patriots, a group that emerged in 2009 within the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement and helped elect dozens of Republicans.

It is also backed by hedge fund investor Robert Mercer, his daughter Rebekah Mercer and conservative commentator Dan Bongino.

Latest comments

Parler is a trashy website for fruitcake conspiracy peddlers. The Mercers being involved should make everyone question its legitimacy.
Parler im signing up for asap. Twitter has 50 billion dead accounts and i was banned once for posting NFL stadiums 1/2 empty at kickoff(in real time with 5 others)..I exposed the fraud NFL 2019 about attendance exaggerations
Amazon is left wing trash
We can hope for free speech, but the power of big tech, and the corporate media is too strong. The USA  is being rolled this year. The only thing now standing in their way to control everything..is some few millions of citizens. Welcome to 1984.
Hopefully Musk will start something up that will bankrupt Twitter and Facebook
Praying is your last hope. 😂😂
Bye bye totalitarian facebook and tweeter. Wellcome free speech
More like reopen the door to misogyny,white supremacy and hate speech again.
Agreed - America is eaten alive from the inside out, by bad will. America's liberties are its demise. - America's last hope is to learn Chinese and practice yoga, to become more disciplined, agile, productive, less si' 'ck in mind and body, and to come out ahead of the ever-tightening noose that communist countries activate with high determination. Trump's incompetence to see REALITY made things worse. Race to the bottom if GOP can't do what's right .. There's NO future for America under Trump .. Wake up GOP before it's too late
Social Media will only be propaganda machines for foreign countries until verifiable government issued IDs to join becomes mandatory.
then it quickly become the spy machine of the local government
All social media platforms should work toward technical independence. This episode with Parler should be a lesson to all budding social media startups.
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