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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by DSingularity on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:39AM (#25710849)
As much as a wish for there to be no money for them, I honestly doubt it is zero. Traditionally conservative groups (eg NRA, political campaigns, firearm related businesses, ...) would probably find significantly better ROI on marketing budgets spent at parler.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by chillwaves on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:53AM (#25711631)
NRA was being funded by Russia, so I guess Parler could give that a try.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-ass...

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by roenxi on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:24AM (#25712295)
... according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Democrats have called everyone from sitting US presidents to Tulsi Gabbard a "Russian Asset". This is more than likely another false alarm.

What are all these Russian assets meant to be doing anyway? Promoting an excessively calm world peace with strong ties between Russians and Americans? Russia hasn't been a credible threat to the US for 30 years. Nobody is accusing all these assets of actually doing anything. There isn't a path for how Russia is going to take advantage of the US. Anything Russia can do, China can do 3 times over.

The time that they were an appropriate punching bag is long since past.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kingaillas on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:59AM (#25714662)
And yet a Russian spy ring inside the US was broken up around 10 years ago, the NRA was infiltrated by Ms. Butina, etc.

>There isn't a path for how Russia is going to take advantage of the US

Maybe the plan is to sow discord among NATO allies, cause division among US citizens, make democratic processes such as voting appear unreliable, etc.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by roenxi on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:18AM (#25725308)
The US was caught red handed spying on literally everyone with an internet connection. I don't accept that a country having a spy ring is a credible reason to have bad relations with them.

And if there are worries about division between US citizens, possibly Amazon, Apple and Google need to be probed for Russian connections. Suppressing the speech of the sitting president is going to be quite divisive and makes the democratic process look extremely unreliable.

There is no reason to be concerned if people have connections to Russia is the point here. The top examples of problems on your mind are kinda trivial compared to what the US does to itself.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by xnx on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:47AM (#25714582)
Didn't russia just commit the largest cyber espionage campaign ever via solarwinds? For unknown reasons Trump is a russia apologist who denies their wrongdoing (e.g bounties on us troops) at every opportunity.
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