THELOGICALINDIAN - Larimers new amusing media belvedere appears geared appear demography over from farright platforms Gab and Parler
After quitting his role as EOS CTO in January, Dan Larimer has appear a new censorship-resistance amusing media activity alleged Clarion.
Larimer Takes on “Big Tech”
Larimer fabricated a GitHub post answer the abstraction of his new project. He declared a censorship-resistant “friend to friend” arrangement that mirrors the “performance and believability of a centralized account with the abandon and ability of a decentralized service.”
Larimer claimed that his activity would chargeless accompany and ancestors from the alleged “tyranny of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and Google.”
The activity drew afflatus from RetroShare, Hive (formerly Steemit), and Voice, with Larimer adage RetroShare is abundant afterpiece to the adapted akin of centralization. Clarion will facilitate email, video chats, and added forms of bulletin propagation.
Larimer captivated up his advertisement by claiming “Big Tech” has bound its users into its casework and no best produces accoutrement to empower people.
Far-Right Politics on the Blockchain
In January, Larimer adumbrated that his absorption in censorship-resistant technology was due in allotment to Twitter banning above U.S. President Donald Trump from Twitter.
Trump was banned on January 08 for annoying violence at the U.S. capitol, with Larimer advertence that it was “time to carelessness Twitter” the abutting day.
https://twitter.com/bytemaster7/status/1347737515785072643
Larimer additionally appeared to animate users to download the Parler amusing media app from Apple afore it was removed. Parler acquired ballyhoo as a hub for white supremacists and far-right extremists marketed as a censorship-resistant amusing media platform.
Parler was banned from Amazon and added platforms, as Larimer seems to advertence in his cryptic GitHub post.
However, Parler suffered a above aegis aperture back hacktivist @donk_enby aching the belvedere and extracted about accessible metadata absolute all-encompassing advice on Parler users, including identities and metadata.
The advice could potentially analyze abounding of the bodies who were complex in the affronted of the U.S. capital.
https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348281459031814146
Far-right amusing media belvedere Gab was additionally breached recently, including Donald Trump’s claimed account. With Gab and Parler both out of action, the far-right amusing media attendance is bound to added centralized platforms. Larimer appear his activity the day afterwards the Gab drudge was fabricated public.
Disclosure: The columnist captivated Bitcoin at the time of writing.
