Parler reappears with help from Russian-owned service

Pro-Trump supporters riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Following the riot, Apple, Amazon and Google kicked Parler, a social media service popular with right-wing extremists, off their platforms. (Pacific Press / LightRocket)

By BLOOMBERG

Parler, the social network popular with the alt-right and conspiracy theorists, reappeared with the help of a Russian-owned web security service as the website hunts for a way around bans that took it offline earlier this month.

“Our return is inevitable due to hard work, and persistence against all odds,” Chief Executive John Matze wrote in a new post, the latest since Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the site and it was banned from Apple Inc.’s and Google’s app stores. “Despite the threats and harassment, not one Parler employee has quit. We are becoming closer and stronger as a team.”

Parler, which was dropped by the big tech companies after it was used by members to incite violence at the U.S. Capitol, is now relying on a hosting service from DDoS-Guard Corp., which is owned by two Russians, Evgenii Marchenko and Aleksei Likhachev, according to documents filed with Companies House, a U.K. agency that registers company information and makes it available to the public. DDoS-Guard’s website lists an Edinburgh, Scotland, location for its registered office.

Publish : 2021-01-20 13:29:00

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