Very nice explanation of Parler being kicked off Amazon Web Services and what this means now. AFACT, everything is correct. Parler promises to be back online by Tuesday but I also consider that highly unlikely.
The story is developing, now itās not merely AWS. Parler lost Twilio who they used to implement 2FA, theyāve been dropped by their email provider and pretty much all other third-party providers. As @sarahmei@twitter.com points out, this will be major hurdle for them. https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348367076616929281
This gets even bigger. If https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_parler_user_data_is_being_downloaded_as_we/giu04o6/ is legit (and so far everything matches up), Twilio dropping Parler made them implement a work-around that left accounts wide open for takeover. Like: admin accounts. So people have been using that to scrape all āprivateā data.
I must say, for a āfree speechā platform Parler had quite a lot of moderators (note: thatās not a full list). Maybe it wasnāt āfree speechā after all but āonly speech we likeā? https://gist.github.com/d0nk/ef4e58645d3250851491e4550cb16e29
This means: all messages and videos have been downloaded in a crowdsourced fashion, via publicly available Docker images. Even presumably deleted messages were still in the database. And peopleās driver license images that they used to get the āVerified Citizenā status.