News:
SMF - Just Installed!
- Welcome to THeBlueCashew.
Forum gossip thread
Topic rating: 4.20
Replies: 11424
Total votes: : 5
Last post: Today at 10:39:55 PM
Re: Forum gossip thread by Grimmy
I just deleted my Amazon account
Started by Oliver Clotheshoffe, January 11, 2021, 10:04:58 AM
Previous topic - Next topic0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
While it did not confirm Parler was seeking its services, Epik in a statement last week blasted Big Tech companies' "kneejerk reaction" of "simply deplatforming and terminating any relationship that on the surface looks problematic or controversial." The statement noted that Epik is "not quick to abandon our administrative positions," as it attempted to contrast it and Amazon.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
De-platformed social media website Parler may return by the end of January, coming after the site reappeared online after Amazon Web Services (AWS) took the site down due to alleged violations, according to Parler CEO John Matze.
"I'm confident that by the end of the month, we'll be back up," Matze told Fox News on Sunday night. The website reappeared online with a brief statement from Matze.
According to a WHOIS search, Parler appeared to register its domain with Epik web hosting, which also hosts Gab.
"Every day it changes wildly, but I feel confident now," Matze said, according to the Fox News interview. "We're making significant progress. When you go into Parler.com it doesn't go into the void now, it hits a server, and it returns just one piece of information."
Matze wrote in an update on the site that "now seems like the right time to remind you all—both lovers and haters—why we started this platform."
"We believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential, especially on social media," he remarked in his statement, dated Jan. 16. "Our aim has always been to provide a nonpartisan public square where individuals can enjoy and exercise their rights to both. We will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of you back soon. We will not let civil discourse perish!"
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
"In January 2021, more than 90 million new users from around the world joined Telegram," reads the encrypted messaging app's message. "Thank you! These milestones were made possible by users like you who invite their friends to Telegram."
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Facebook has hired Roy Austin, former Obama administration official and a member of President Joe Biden's transition team, as the social media company's vice president of Civil Rights and deputy general counsel.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Its efforts to relaunch before February were not successful due to reasons unknown.
He said that he believed the big tech companies' decision against Parler is a "coordinated attack" to "kill competition in the market place."
"We were too successful too fast," he added.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
It's similar to Reddit.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
This is another social media alternative to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
It's similar to Reddit.https://retalk.com/">https://retalk.com/
If it isn't owned or controlled by big tech, it's history.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Lisa Haba, a partner of Haba Law Firm based in Florida, told The Epoch Times that Twitter refused to take down sexual exploitation videos of her client even after her client showed Twitter the proof that he's a minor, and that Twitter "certainly was profiting off the exploitation of [her client]."
The Haba Law Firm, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center, and the Matiasic Firm jointly filed a federal lawsuit against Twitter on Jan. 20, 2021.
Haba told the story of her client during an interview with Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times' American Thought Leaders program.
John Doe, Haba's client, is currently a 17-year-old high school student. When he was 13 years old, he was targeted on Snapchat by online sex traffickers who impersonated a 16-year-old girl. He was manipulated into sending over his nude photos. After receiving them, the traffickers started to blackmail him. They threatened to send his nude photos to his parents, his pastor, and school leaders, and others.
"The child attempted for a long time to appease the traffickers, acquiescing to their demands in an effort to save his family and save himself from their demands," Haba said. "Ultimately [he] was able to break free when they demanded to meet with him, and he, thankfully, declined to do so."
However, when he was 16 years old, the abusive material surfaced on Twitter.
John Doe became aware of the posts from his classmates in January 2020. Many students in his school watched the videos, and John Doe became a "victim of vicious bullying" and "became suicidal."
Fortunately, his mother found out and supported him in contacting Twitter to demand the abusive material be taken down off the platform.
However, after receiving a copy of John Doe's driver's license and two more requests from his mother, Twitter failed to act.
"Twitter waited several more days before finally saying a devastating comment to this child," Haba said. "We don't find this to be a violation of our policies, and we're going to take no further action."
The material wasn't taken down until the Department of Homeland Security stepped in. It had accrued over 167,000 views and 2,223 retweets, the complaint noted.
"The words say that they have a zero-tolerance policy, but their actions speak differently. When our client asked them to take down the exact material that they say that they proclaim to preclude, they refuse to act," Haba said.
"That's basically the essence of this lawsuit."
Twitter Profited From the Abusive Content
Haba went on to claim that Twitter profited from not removing her client's abuse videos.
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
Anonymous
- Guest
- A
- Logged
User actions