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The huge trove of information could take months or years to sift through, experts caution, but far-right activists who used the web hosting service Epik are already being named and shamed.

Bobby Allyn Bobby Allyn is a business reporter at NPR based in San Francisco. He covers technology and how Silicon Valleys largest companies are transforming how we live and reshaping society. He came to San Francisco from Washington, where he focused on national breaking news and politics. Before that, he covered criminal justice at member station WHYY. In that role, he focused on major corruption trials, law enforcement, and local criminal justice policy. He helped lead NPRs reporting of Bill...

Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) After getting essentially blacklisted last month following its role in helping foment the deadly January 6 MAGA putsch on Capitol Hill, the social media app and hate-speech breeding ground known as Parler (not to be confused with Parlor) is unfortunately back online for the segment of the Internet that looks at Twitter and thinks to themselves, “This place is too politically correct for me.” Advertisement Parler has long billed itself as the “pr...

When websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to one company for a

Meet The Man Behind Epik, The Tech Firm Keeping Far-Right Websites Alive By Bobby Allyn  February 8, 2021 When websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to one company for a lifeline. That company is run by Rob Monster, a 53-year-old Dutch-American. “If you wanted to cast a villain who was going to be the Lex Luther of the Internet, Rob Monster is about as good as it gets,” he joked during a recent interview ...

NPR's Bobby Allyn speaks with Rob Monster, who sees his domain-registrar company Epik as a counter to Big Tech. He welcomes views banned on most other parts of the internet.

Exiled from social media mainstream, Trump and his followers will find life different at the extreme corners of the Web Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell © Provided by The Washington Post There will always be ways for Trump, and everyone else, to keep making their views known on the Internet. Parler is scrambling its way back online after its unceremonious purging last week, and an ever-growing list of alternatives are offering similar opportunities for online conversation that is...

Parlers Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer Photo: Hollie Adams (Getty Images) Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s premier free speech platform,” in the online ...

De-platformed sites are finding safe harbour with a Washington based web hosting company. But for how long? 18 January 2021 • 5:52pm A man wearing a "Trump 2020" sweatshirt uses his mobile phone during a "Stop the Steal" protest outside Milwaukee Central Count the day after Milwaukee County finished counting absentee ballots Credit: BING GUAN/Reuters A former Pampers nappy executive has transformed his small web hosting company into a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread f...