FWIW we don't know where it's hosted now, that's the point of DDoS-Guard, and the Reuters article makes no claim the site is 'hosted by Russia.'
<a href="https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327257161739677697" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327257161739677697</a><p>looks like there are some legit questions on Parler and its origins.
Democracy works best when critical thinking skills and public disclosure of information co-operate.<p>Better understanding why people believe in the conspiracy theories and fixing the social ills that radicalize portions of the population will be critical factors during my entire adult lifetime. For the US, and for the world at large.<p>We need to learn how to prevent terrorists from being created and in so doing advance as a global society.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."<p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore</a>
Parler is basically irrelevant at this point. <i>Anyone</i> can stand something up on the internet, but without mainstream technical and legal support it is politically dead.<p>The most influence it will exert is in mainstream news articles about its fate, and opinion pieces about free speech from American philosophy majors.
Regardless of hosting, Parler seems to be dead in the water given how much of the Internet is accessed via mobile devices, and Parler being banned from all (both) major app stores.
I’m not sure where all this hate on parler is coming from.<p>While Twitter allowed the trending of #AssassinateTrump and #killtrump plus all the violence and destruction orchestrated on Twitter during the BLM protests on hundreds of small businesses in America where far more damage and fatalities occurred then the capital riots and big tech especially Apple, Amazon and Facebook were quite about.<p>This is a collaboration against conservatives and the greatest form of censorship America has ever experienced.
This is how democracy dies.
First line: 'Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right'<p>Parler is/was essentially a free speech libertarian site with strict rules and guidelines for posts.<p>I find it disturbing that the overwhelmingly US neo conservative liberal media companies slap the label 'far right' on just abut anything that doesn't fit their world view and agenda. Any sort of recognition there are center right or moderate conservatives appears to have been cancelled.<p>Regarding extremists, It's the old story - ban it and it will go underground. Free speech is always better and is also a cornerstone of western democracy. The irony of Parler having to be hosted in fascist Russia is extreme and embarrassing for the western world.