>https://daringfireball.net/ | By JOHN GRUBER

AMAZON WILL SUSPEND PARLER FROM AWS WEB HOSTING ★

John Pazkowski, reporting for BuzzFeed News:

Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C. It has recently been overrun with messages encouraging “Patriots” to march on Washington D.C. with weapons on January 19 …Bye-bye, Nazis. (And trust me, having spent more time today digging into Parler than I’d recommend to anyone, Parler is a haven for fucking Nazis. Like, however many Nazis you think are cavorting on Parler — and let’s just say for the sake of argument that you’re a pessimist and you think there are a lot of them — there are more than you think.)

KIERAN HEALY: ‘WHAT HAPPENED?’ ★

Kieran Healy:

I don’t know what happened. But here’s my current theory of what the White House thought was going to happen. […]From the White House’s point of view, the crowd was not actually supposed to get inside the Capitol. The MAGA/Q contingent are the useful marks in all this. They believe all the crap they’re fed. But obviously they’re not going to get into the building. It’s the US Capitol for God’s sake! The very idea that the rush of events would propel them right into the chambers was not something the White House wanted to happen, or thought was going to happen…Of course, before the rally some of the actually dangerous Q-marinated nutters absolutely did want to get inside the building, find Pence, and Pelosi, and the rest, and literally take them hostage and string them up.

<>This is so, so good. And I think it’s exactly what happened.

FRIDAY, 8 JANUARY 2021

GOOGLE SUSPENDS PARLER FROM THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE ★

<>Not a good day for Nazis, fascists, or kooks.

Pretty good day for the rest of us.

THE MAGAPOCALYPSE: TWITTER ALSO BANS MICHAEL FLYNN, SIDNEY POWELL, AND 8KUN CO-OWNER RON WATKINS ★

Caroline Haskins, reporting for BuzzFeed News:

Twitter is permanently suspending major accounts that are “solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” following the far-right insurrection at the nation’s Capitol.

Banned accounts include former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump attorney Sidney Powell, and 8kun co-owner Ron Watkins, who some journalists and researchers have speculated has the log-in information for the account “Q”, whose posts fuel the mass delusion, but doesn’t necessarily write Q’s posts.

<>I’d make a “Today I settle all family business” joke, but if Michael Corleone ran Twitter these crackpot wingnuts would’ve all been banned years ago.

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WTF is [John Gruber]?