How Parler CEO John Matze married 'Russian he met during her US road trip' before founding website.

[TheBlackAdder]

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How Parler CEO John Matze married 'Russian he met during her US road trip' before founding 'free-speech' platform that is now bankrolled by conservative donor Rebekah Mercer and used by MAGA fans





* Parler had been the leading candidate for the president to continuing voicing his opinion, at least until Google and Apple removed it from their app stores

* Not much it known about Matze's personal life but he is reported to have married Russian Alina Mukhutdinova after the pair are said to have met in Las Vegas

* She was said to have been on a two week road trip around the United States

* Alina's Instagram pictures show the couple have at least one child

* In one she hold rifles and wears a shirt which reads: 'Trust me, I'm a Russian spy'

* The couple appear to live a luxury lifestyle with numerous vacation pictures

* Matze, who studied at the University of Denver, teamed up with fellow alumni Jared Thomson to create Parler; Thomson is now chief technical officer

* The app is now bankrolled by hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer's daughter


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9132371/How-libertarian-Parler-CEO-married-Russian-met-road-trip-founding-platform.html

I'm probably a day late and a dollar short with this post.

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[cynical_idealist]

1. * Parler had been the leading candidate for the president to continuing voicing his opinion...

...from prison.

[Me.]

2. Rebekah Mercer Is A Menace

Maybe she'll end up arrested

[pecosbob]

3. Played like a fiddle

[Celerity]

5. with a Nikolai Kittel bow no doubt

Nikolai Kittel

Bow maker / Violin maker
(1805 – 1868)

https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/browse-the-archive/makers/maker/?Maker_ID=1508

One of the more mysterious figures in the history of violin and bow making is Nikolai (Nicolaus) Kittel, who was of Austrian descent but born in St. Petersburg around 1805 and died in 1868. Until recently virtually no formal account of his life existed, though his bows have been held in the highest esteem for over a century. He is thought to have employed several assistants in his shop, including Friedrich Hermann and Heinrich Knopf, whose hand is evident in numerous bows bearing the Kittel brand. Both those produced by Knopf and by Kittel himself show a distinctive and consistent interpretation of the Tourte model, and bear few German characteristics, but differences in their workmanship are apparent. The heads of Kittel's bows are more rounded and the chamfers rougher, while Knopf's heads are more square with smoothly filed chamfers. Sticks of both makers are of beautiful wood and well-planed, with very centred cambering, and nearly all frogs bear Parisian eyes. While recent research has shed considerable light on the body of work produced by Kittel's shop, further investigation is necessary to reveal further biographical details about this important maker.

- The auction record for this maker is $211,541 in Mar 2015, for a cello bow.

[pecosbob]

7. Most illuminating...I seem to recall bows that were brought to Roadshow sometimes were more valuable

than the instruments the visitors were having appraised.

[tanyev]

4. Kick.

[Celerity]

6. ...

https://rattibha.com/thread/1327253991936454663

[yardwork]

8. Mercers again.

[Klaralven]

9. 6/2019 - About 200,000 Saudi Arabian Users Suddenly Flood Parler, a Pro-Trump Twitter Alternative

Tens of thousands of Saudi Arabians have suddenly flocked to the pro-Trump social network Parler to apparently protest what they see as censorship on Twitter, Reuters reports. Parler CEO John Matze said the new accounts have “more than doubled” the total number of users on the site since Sunday, and have subsequently broken some of Parler’s functions. About 200,000 new users joined the network, and researchers have found that many of them were from Saudi Arabia. The Saudi users reportedly promoted their use of Parler in tweets while claiming Twitter was suppressing free expression. On Parler, Saudi accounts have reportedly been using the hashtag #Twexit. Twitter reportedly declined to comment about any action it has taken against its Saudi users, but Parler seems to have embraced the new accounts. “The nationalist movement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made it known that big tech is censoring them at rates we have never experienced in the United States,” Parler wrote in a post on its own account. “Let us welcome them as we all fight for our rights together.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/about-200000-saudi-arabian-users-suddenly-flood-parler-a-pro-trump-twitter-alternative

Some Saudi nationalists, who vociferously support the country’s influential Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now share an online space with right-wing U.S. backers of Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-saudi-politics/unhappy-with-twitter-thousands-of-saudis-join-pro-trump-social-network-parler-idUSKCN1TE32S