Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by rodgerd on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:04PM (#25770897)

> Parler was, at the end of the day, a somewhat amateurish Twitter clone whose essential growth hack was that they decided to serve as a kind of ban evasion mechanism for Twitter.

The growth hack was to be funded by the Mercer family (Cambridge Analytica, Brexit) to the tune of a few million a year to help promote their agenda.

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by itsyaboi on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:38PM (#25771146)

This is really interesting. Where can I learn more about this?

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Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli... by rodgerd on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:07PM (#25771350)

WSJ, amongst other news sites, has provided coverage: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-...

You can read about the Mercers winding up Cambridge Analytica, which they funded: https://apnews.com/article/64280ae1f30c44eb8b82049f6875dddd

Likewise their involvement with Brietbart: https://www.dw.com/en/who-are-the-mercers-the-wealthy-backer...

As far as the "millions" figure, that's come out of claims that their AWS bill was in the region of $300k per month.

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