Twitter user @donk_enby says she obtained files from the site complete with GPS metadata to show exactly where they were taken
A hacker claims to have archived all of Parler’s deleted posts and says they provide ‘very incriminating’ evidence after the crowd’s deadly attack on the United States Capitol.
Parler went offline shortly after 3 am EST on Monday, after Amazon withdrew the platform from its web hosting service, effectively shutting down the site until it can find a new hosting partner or finance its own servers.
He had already disappeared from Apple and Google’s app stores after they severed ties with the right-wing platform.
Now, Twitter user @donk_enby says she obtained files from the site complete with GPS metadata to show exactly where they were taken. This can be useful for authorities who are investigating the DC riot.
She told Gizmodo how she started with the goal of archiving all posts since the Capitol rebellion on January 6. But when the site appeared it would be deleted, she worked to extract 99% of the content from the site.
Some of the clips “may include things” from deleted and private posts, said @donk_enby. The data also contains information about the site administrators.
A hacker claims to have archived all of Parler’s deleted posts and says they provide “very incriminating” evidence after the deadly crowd attack on the United States Capitol
The president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, was among those who had opened a Parler account while conservatives dissatisfied with Twitter flocked to the site
Sean Hannity, Donald Trump’s favorite Fox News presenter, also had an account on the page
@donk_enby said: ‘I want this to be a big middle finger for those who say that hacking shouldn’t be political.’
‘Now I’m crawling URLs for all videos sent to Parler. Sequentially, from the newest to the oldest. These are the original raw raw files uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata, ”she wrote on Sunday.
She later added on Twitter on Monday: ‘only the things that were publicly available on the web were archived. I don’t have your email address, phone number or credit card number. unless you posted it on parler yourself. ‘
John Matze founded Parler in 2018 as a “freedom of speech-oriented” alternative to conventional platforms. He is photographed with his family
Parler announced on Monday that he will sue Amazon for antitrust violations after the site was deleted from the web overnight.
CEO John Matze said Monday morning that he was doing more than Facebook and Twitter to try to remove violent content from his app. In a statement, the self-declared libertarian said: ‘Objectively assessed, our system worked as well or better than the methods used by our competitors, while adhering to our principles.’
The site then announced that it would sue Amazon and ask a federal judge to order the tech giant to reinstate the platform, The Hill reported.
The 18-page lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court in Seattle against Amazon Web Services (AWS). He says: ‘AWS’ decision to effectively close Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animosity. Apparently, it was also designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market for the benefit of Twitter. ‘
He notes: ‘Friday night one of the most popular tweets on Twitter was’ Hang Mike Pence’. But AWS has no plans or made threats to suspend the Twitter account. ‘
Shortly after 3 am EST, Parler disappeared from the web with an error message saying ‘we can’t connect to the server’ after Amazon shut down
The app was removed from the Google app store after conservative social media users migrated to the site after the Capitol attack
Parler is believed to target AWS, rather than Apple and Google, as ‘both the applications and the website are written to work with AWS technology’. “Without AWS, Parler is finished, because there is no way to go online,” adds the process.
The loss of access to Google and Apple’s app stores severely limits Parler’s reach to millions of smartphones. Losing Amazon Web Services means that Parler needs to find another host to be accessed in a browser.
Matze argued that ‘until Friday afternoon it looked like Apple, Amazon and Google agreed’ that the app had been effective in its efforts to remove ‘objectionable content’, adding: ‘You can expect the war on competition and freedom of expression continue, but don’t ‘don’t exclude us. ‘
Matze had initially said that Parler could be unavailable for “up to a week while we rebuild from scratch”, but now says he can stay offline for longer. Google and Apple kicked Trump Friendly Gab out of their app stores in 2017 and he was homeless on the Internet for a while. Now it hosts through its own servers.
Hailed by supporters of Donald Trump as a conservative alternative to Twitter, Parler is seen as a magnet for the far right and has been accused by Apple, Google and Amazon of continuing to allow messages that incite violence after Wednesday’s attack on Capitol Hill
Critics continued to criticize the big tech giants for eliminating free speech in the wake of Donald Trump’s Twitter ban.
Fox New host Jeanine Pirro later argued that Parler’s platform is “similar to a Kristallnacht”. In 1938, Nazis in Germany and Austria vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses during an attack that became known as Kristallnacht.
She said: ‘They gave us a taste of this pre-election when they suppressed Hunter Biden’s story. And now that they have won, what we are seeing is a kind of censorship similar to a Kristallnacht, where they decide on what we can communicate.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald on Sunday accused tech giants of ‘faking an offense to destroy’ Parler. He said that ‘much more violence’ was planned on Facebook.
He tweeted on Monday to liberals as ‘overwhelmingly supportive’ of big technologies using ‘brute force 3 times in 3 months to manipulate US politics’
Greenwald wrote: ‘Technology monopolies – FB, Google, Apple, Amazon – have more concentrated wealth and power than anyone else in history. They used brute force 3 times in 3 months to manipulate US politics: censoring the NY Post, banning Trump, destroying Parler. And liberals are extremely supportive.
‘That these Silicon Valley monopolies are serious threats to political freedom and economic well-being * is not * a right-wing view.
“Authoritarians never believe that they are authoritarian, no matter how much censorship, surveillance, chauvinism and imprisonment they demand. They tell themselves that their enemies are so evil and dangerous – terrorists – that anything done in the name of fighting them is noble.