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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:57 PM Jan 2021

Parler CEO John Matze and family go into hiding after death threats

The CEO of Parler, the conservative social media app, and his family have gone into hiding because of death threats and harassment, according to a new court filing.

The documents, obtained by Fox News, show that John Matze and his family have been targeted by people who published his street address and threatened to come in his front door.

Parler, which is a favorite of Trump supporters, was booted off Apple and Google’s platforms after the Capitol riots and Amazon took it off its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services.

In response, Parler filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Amazon countersued, saying Parler’s suit had no valid legal basis and claiming Amazon employees had been threatened and harassed, Fox News reported.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/parler-ceo-john-matze-goes-into-hiding-after-death-threats/

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Parler CEO John Matze and family go into hiding after death threats (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2021 OP
You reap what you sow, John Matze! muntrv Jan 2021 #1
All is not tulips & daffodils in .Nazi land. magicarpet Jan 2021 #2
A lot of Right Wingers are accusing him of running a honey pot for the FBI. BlueLucy Jan 2021 #3
Those ignorant insurgents sure do like to turn on their own, don't they? MLAA Jan 2021 #8
They do act like French revolutionaries CanonRay Jan 2021 #18
His own mob is turning on him. paleotn Jan 2021 #10
It turned out be a BIG honey pot. roamer65 Jan 2021 #21
Play with fire, you get burnt. IsItJustMe Jan 2021 #4
Time to change your name and disappear. Baked Potato Jan 2021 #5
That's the thing about mobs.... paleotn Jan 2021 #6
Who could have ever thought that would happen? rurallib Jan 2021 #7
When you open Pandora's box bad things can happen to you. nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2021 #9
My suggestion. Polly Hennessey Jan 2021 #11
Plotting the demise of American democracy....on the interwebs.... paleotn Jan 2021 #12
What the hell has happened to our country? Lunabell Jan 2021 #13
He could move to Russia dalton99a Jan 2021 #14
I'm getting confused. marie999 Jan 2021 #15
I'm sure Rebekkah Mercer knows how to find him FakeNoose Jan 2021 #16
Good i hope they hunt you down and tear you apart Fullduplexxx Jan 2021 #17
a platform here in wash state picked them up I believe.. samnsara Jan 2021 #19
Yes It's a company in Sammamish called Epik but it looks like they are waffling on it The empressof all Jan 2021 #20
Karma. Dem2theMax Jan 2021 #22
UGNazi has threatened him BainsBane Jan 2021 #23

BlueLucy

(1,609 posts)
3. A lot of Right Wingers are accusing him of running a honey pot for the FBI.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:00 PM
Jan 2021

I suspect this is why he is getting death threats.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
10. His own mob is turning on him.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:14 PM
Jan 2021

Mobs are like that.

Also, reich wingers generally don't know how anything works. ANYTHING they post on ANY social media ANYWHERE on ANY device is fair game. With a little effort, anyone can see it. And it rarely if ever goes away no matter how you delete it. Huge swaths of the interwebs are vacuumed up regularly by various organizations for various reasons. It's all bytes on a server somewhere.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
6. That's the thing about mobs....
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:08 PM
Jan 2021

Sometimes other mobs turn on your mob. Or your own mob turns on you. As a general rule, I don't like mobs.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
12. Plotting the demise of American democracy....on the interwebs....
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:20 PM
Jan 2021

Somewhere, there's Al Qaeda survivors and old IRA operators laughing their fucking asses off at the dumb Americans. If it's electronic, it's not secure and thank God they're fucking dumbasses.

Lunabell

(6,087 posts)
13. What the hell has happened to our country?
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:20 PM
Jan 2021

These idiots are off the rails. I blame the GOP for normalizing this radicalization.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
15. I'm getting confused.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:25 PM
Jan 2021

I'm not sure who wants to kill who? Or does it not matter to them anymore, just got to kill someone.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
16. I'm sure Rebekkah Mercer knows how to find him
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:29 PM
Jan 2021

As I understand it, anybody who wanted a Parler account had to give their real name, address, DL info and Soc.Sec# to create an account. So what happened to that data? Parler just turned it over to the FBI.

Rebekkah and Robert Mercer's previous company was Cambridge Analytica. Does anybody see a pattern here? Hmmmm...


The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
20. Yes It's a company in Sammamish called Epik but it looks like they are waffling on it
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 06:26 PM
Jan 2021

I can't believe it is going to be that welcomed even in that neighborhood. Company says it has no immediate plans to host

https://mynorthwest.com/2461882/sammamish-epik-parler/


BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
23. UGNazi has threatened him
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 06:56 PM
Jan 2021

People like this CEO and Trump emboldened the neo-Nazis, and now they face the consequences.

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