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Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

by kamyarg on 1/19/21, 10:29 AM with 51 comments

• by mtmail on 1/19/21, 12:45 PM

  Related disuccsion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829794 The Russian firm is providing DDoS protection, it's not clear where, or by whom, the website is hosted.

• by jl2718 on 1/19/21, 2:55 PM

  Let’s ask the naive question here. Why would an American company go to Russia to exercise their American right to free speech?

• by born_a_skeptic on 1/19/21, 10:53 PM

  Why does this need to be a news headline on Reuters?

• by 2Gkashmiri on 1/19/21, 2:13 PM

  soooo. they are going to host censorship free content in a country accused of censorship itself against a govt which is supposedly most democratic and against censorship and for free speech... phew that was a mouthful...

  /s.

  edit. DDOS protection against free speech activists aiming to instill the values of free and uncensored speech on the rest of the ungrateful world

• by Bucephalus355 on 1/19/21, 11:27 AM

  The most incredible thing about all this is that Parler was built on top of ... WordPress.

  Robert Mercer put $10,000,000 into Parler, and they build out a WordPress app. I don't mean to be harsh, and I actually have a special affection for PHP (the first programming language I studied), but that is engineering malpractice.

  Also FYI per the New Yorker story in 2018, Robert Mercer is the largest private owner of machine guns in the US. He runs them through the armory Centre Firearms [1].

  [1] - https://CentreFirearms.com