News of the Cyber World

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Parler to be down for a while without AWS

executives say: 'We are clearly being singled out'

CEO John Matze says Big Tech seeking to 'stifle free speech and competition in the marketplace'

Parler will likely go offline for "a while" Sunday evening given Amazon Web Services' decision to suspend the upstart social media platform after Wednesday's U.S. Capitol riot, executives said Sunday.
“We are clearly being singled out,” Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff told Fox & Friends Weekend one day after Apple suspended Parler from its App Store even as it surged to the No. 1 spot in the free apps section earlier in the day.

Unilaterally, Google, Apple and now even Amazon are chasing Parler down. They all claim that the mobile app did not censor its contents and they had received complains about it being violent in nature. They haven't provided anybody with clear evidence of such misbehavior as of yet. Besides that's something that should not be attributed to Parler itself but to the very own people posting the alleged messages on that platform. If any of the Big Tech dislikes what people are reading on it, refer them to Parler's lawyers or the court. They can't simply kick apps that haven't harmed anybody. You see, even if Telegram, also another social media platform that is totally open source, had some evil users stealing people's bitcoins or credit cards, not even the DOJ could blame Telegram itself as its promoter. They'd go after the real criminals only. You can't blame the whole network for a third party's misdeeds.

Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter are committing crimes against free speech deliberately. Yeah, I know, we all doubt Biden's pick for DA General will ever take a look on their horrible actions and open a formal investigation.

Hong Kong Democracy Website Experiences Temporary Blockage From Hong Kong ISPs

A website “dedicated to exposing people supporting tyranny and dictatorship in Hong Kong” started receiving reports overnight on Jan. 6 that Hong Kong users were unable to access the site.
Hong Kong Chronicles is a primarily Cantonese site that has been collating a database of information related to the Hong Kong protests, such as incidents of police brutality and the profiles of those allegedly complicit.
In an announcement made on Jan. 7, the site’s chief editor and operator Naomi Chan clarified that the site was not blocking users and had no plan of doing so.
The site’s team found that some Hong Kong Internet service providers (ISPs) had been dropping connections to the site’s server, effectively blocking users’ access to the site’s content. Chan listed Smartone, CMHK, HKBN, PCCW as some of the ISPs that were found to have participated in the blockage.

This serves as a perfect example of how illegal are the actions taken by the Big Tech in the US against Trump, GOP politicians, lawyers and even the mobile app Parler. How dare they!