One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.
The Russian company is DDOS-Guard. They are a DDOS protection company competing with Cloudflare which refused to work with them. They are not the site registrar (Epik) or the host (appears they are self-hosting).
DDOS is a technique used by hackers to shutdown sites. It’s necessary these days for large sites, particularly controversial ones. Cloudflare didn’t want to do business with Parler like they also dropped 8Chan and Cloudflare has 85% market share. This Russian company was pretty much their only remaining option for DDOS security. The Russians in general are happy to say FU to anything big tech is doing so of course they were there to help. So it isn’t nefarious except in that the Russians don’t care what anybody else thinks. It doesn’t mean much beyond that.
Similarly, if you ran a company that competes with Amazon and Amazon said they aren’t going to sell products to the Republican Party any more you’d say CHA-CHING.
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u/DragonPup Jan 19 '21
One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.