Pirate Bay founder's boot against Parler: "Embarrassing"

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The social media Parler has been under pressure since the attack on the American congress building Kapitolium. The service was criticized, among other things, for being used to plan the storm, and over the weekend the app was removed from both Google's and Apple's app stores . Amazon has also chosen to stop offering its server solution to social media.

Parler is a kind of conservative equivalent of Twitter that has gained a lot of ground among Donald Trump's supporters, especially since he was shut down from Twitter. 

Pirate Bay was never shut down

Now Parler gets a boot from the activist, IT entrepreneur and The pirate bay co-founder Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi. He finds it strange how a well-funded site like Parler, has failed with something that the file-sharing site The pirate bay has succeeded in for so long.

“The Pirate bay, the world's most censored website, started by children, run by people with alcohol problems, drugs and money, still running after almost two decades. Parler and Gab (another social media editor's note) have all the money but not the skill or the right attitude. Embarrassing ", he writes on Twitter.

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The Pirate bay offered a service where anyone could upload and download files of various kinds. The site became popular for downloading movies and games, for example, and has for many years been tamped with organizations, countries and individuals who wanted to shut down the site and the founders have also been sentenced to both prison and damages for their work with the site. 

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi also points out that The Pirate Bay had the US government, several European countries and Russia against it.

Tough criticism of the platforms

When Breakit reaches Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, he develops his criticism.

"Parler criticizes 'big tech' a lot, they criticize the establishment - even if they themselves are part of it. Then they build a service where everything depends on Amazon and others that they complain so much about. It's very strange. If you are going to build something that you think is independent, you can not build something where you are actually dependent on others ", he says. 

He himself has no problem with Amazon throwing out Parler, or Twitter shutting down Trump.

“I think that's right. But it's too late. Donald Trump was supposed to be fired a long time ago, but he is doing so now because he can no longer shut them down. They are not afraid anymore and then you kick him out ", he says and continues.

Do not think that much will happen

“Then the second question is what to allow companies to control. There, we in the pirate world have been nagging for 15 years that it should be regulated politically what power the private companies should have. Because while politicians criticize 'big tech' for making arbitrary decisions, they have not been given any tools. "

What do you think will happen in the discussion about platform rights and obligations?

"I do not think it will happen that much more. Parler will find any cash web hosting provider that accepts them. Unfortunately, the important discussion dies out, the one that I think would have been very interesting to have: What are the restrictions and above all what rights do you have on the internet. It would be nice if it was a decision that there was a process around and not something that was just a decision from individual companies. "

At the time of writing, Parler is still extinguished. The company's CEO John Matze has previously said that they will try to get the site up again as soon as possible.

"We will do our best to get back online as soon as possible, but if it gets awkward, it's because every single company we've talked to says they do not want to work with us," he told Fox News

Edited May 21, 2021 by Chewy_fox

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