Google suspends 'free speech' app Parler

After observing the conduct on PARLER Google and Apple have decided that their "stores" will not be used to support those activities.

Use your PC. Problem solved.
Don't want to use your PC? Then

Create your own cell phone and cell phone OS then create your own store and your customers can download all the PARLER's you want.

It's called the free market. No one is stopping you.

 

Could you please post some details on what your error message was?

Right after reading you post I opened chrome on my back up phone which does not have parler installed. Searched for "parler APK download". Went to apkmonk. Clicked download. The files is about 35 MB. After the download I opened my file manager. Clicked on the file and installed parler. A warning comes about about untrusted source but if you trust parler click allow and you are done. I clicked on the parler icon and was ready to sign in or create a new account. Whole process took less than 5 minutes.

FYI the filename of the download was com.parler.parler_2020-12-15.apk and the file size was 35.92 MB.

I suggest checking the site you are downloading from. Some site like apkpure have their own app that you need to install in order to install downloads from their site. The apps are loaded with ads and such.

 

I got as far as you did, right up to the untrusted source part, and it said the file couldn’t be opened. The file is about 33megs and I downloaded it twice on each phone. I’m going to try using the file manager and see what happens.

 

Maybe a corrupt file? This is where I just downloaded the app from on my backup phone

https://www.apkmonk.com/app/com.parler.parler/

 

Another one who welcomes our tech overlords.

 

The site I found directed me to that same download site. I’ll try it again tomorrow, but by then Amazon will have discriminated against Parler and shut them down.

 

Goodluck. Take a look at how Samsung handles installs from Unknown sources. I am a purest and only use Google phones but in the old days you had to go into your options and click a button to Enable Install from Unknown Sources. For the recent Pixel phones that is handled automatically when you click on the allow untrusted source button. Maybe it is different on Samsung.

 

1. It just promotes the site by banning it.

2. Funny the platform that thinks it is above the law now thinks it is the law of the internet. One more move toward its anti-trust demise.

3. I know nothing of parlor other than it exists. I used VK for awhile after leaving facebook, but its english language membership is rather skinny. It was interesting to see some of the people I stumbled upon's very different day to day lives though. I never really fully appreciated how hard it is for young people in Russian and eastern Europe to even have any kind of normal 9-5 job. Lots of people in the twenty something age group travel around and work here for a few months and there for a few months as they can find work, yet they are still optimistic and future-oriented.

 

If someone trusts software and/or sources like Parler, their problem may well being a problem

I don't even automatically trust sources like PF's software.

With hot in a place filled with potential hackers, worldwide monitoring by every over-and-underground source and whackjobs, I certainly run several levels of security too, if it might be interesting.

Qanon and other conspiracy often silly sources are not interesting.

 

How can Parler be shut down?

Did Amazon buy Parler out?

 

Amazon is shutting down Parler tomorrow. They were told to find a new hosting service.

 

I won't lie their are always risk. In this case it is pretty minimal. The site hosting the parler apks are well known. The parler app itself expects personnel information though but that would have happened even if you downloaded it from the playstore. The parler community for the most part is pretty tame. They do censor and ban people for speech and activity that is legal and that is in their TOS. The more uncensored free speech you want the greater you delved into the shadier sides of the internet. Once old school conservatives start visiting image boards and such it should get interesting.

 

So?

As long as the Parler company owns the Parler site name, it is trivial or nearly so to get a new hosting service.

If they get any hassles with any American company, the enormous network systems that Putin has online for his thousands of American network of Russian troll and hackers and Parler can just pop right in, given there probably already a whole division in Russia operating the Parler site anyway.

 

Where is your confidence in the free market?

 

It’s nice to see patriots coming together to suffocate the enemies of US. This should make it harder for them to plot their next attack.

 

blm uses Parler. That makes the shutdown racist.

 

Sure, run with that. I doubt BLM gives a flick. This is about stopping terrorists.

 

Lol...such a hypocrite. Iran and China use Twitter.

 

Do they plot their attacks on Twitter?

 

Can you show me attacks planned by anyone on Parler? I know blm and Antifa use Facebook and Twitter, and they’re still up and running. And Iran just calls for the death of America on Twitter, you know, nothing big or earth shattering. If you live here they want you dead. <COMMENTS EDITED>

 

A group of experienced wed developers can build a social media platform that functions in such a way, that you couldn’t tell the difference between the app and the web site. Many smartphone apps are pretty much web apps.
So, banning the app achieves nothing as the platform can be accessed via a web browser.

 

I think they tossed the entire site from Amazon’s servers, I guess they hosted it.

 

Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline.

 

Yeah there’s one planned for inauguration. Said they would bring weapons.

If some Iranian or Chinese group plan an attack on Twitter, they would be banned as well. Shouting “death to America” is not a plan.

 

Shouting death to America is a call for violence and hate speech. Standards much?

Show me the inauguration plans. Why are you following the people you say are terrorists?