Last month, one of the best conservative social media sites that we have been able to use in a long time went dark. Parler which was a haven for those who love free speech was forced closed by Amazon after blaming the site for the Capitol riots. Of course, we all know that Parler nor President Trump were to blame for the unfortunate events that occurred that day, but this is the left we are dealing with and logic has left the building for them.
After the site went offline, many of us have been waiting patiently to see if it would come back online and it appears there may be some hope in the near future.
One of Parler’s owners is former Secret Service agent and current top podcaster Dan Bongino, and he gave a bit of a timeline for relaunch during a segment with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday.
“We’re shooting for Monday,” said Bongino. “Monday looks good. Fingers crossed.”
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Bongino’s welcome prediction comes amid some turmoil at the tech start-up, as noted by The Daily Wire:
Earlier this week, John Matze announced in a memo sent to employees that he was terminated by the Parler board, saying “Over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed.”
After Matze’s announcement, Bongino “disputed” his claims.
Bongino also put out a video on Rumble, which he also co-owns, explaining the rift:
“I have no personal gripe against John, the CEO, at all; I want to be crystal clear,” Bongino said in the video, posted Wednesday, “but John decided to make this public, not us. We were handling it like gentlemen.”
“We were the ones, in fact, fighting to get Parler back up. There was some really bad decisions made from people on the inside, and listen, this isn’t us airing dirty laundry,” Bongino continued. “This is protecting a company that is absolutely committed to free speech, that I put the last year of my life into. Do you actually believe that someone else was on the side of free speech?”
Later, the former NYPD officer also emphasized that the “relationship with Parler and the CEO did not work out because the CEO’s vision was not ours.”
“Our vision was crystal clear. We needed to get up and fight back, some terrible decisions were made in the past, that led us to getting put down by Amazon and others,” Bongino added.
Among them: Content moderation and free speech, two things Bongino said Parler would not compromise on.
“We could have been (back) up in a week if we just would have bent the knee and followed all the ridiculous Apple edicts to become a heavy moderation site to the left of Twitter. That’s not what we’re gonna do. … We were a free speech site and will remain as such and that’s why it’s taken so long to get back up,” he said.
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