For almost 20 years, a small group of companies have ruled the internet like private governments. They gave their products to you for free, but only because you were their product. Your clicks, scrolls, messages, and purchases all became raw material for an industry built on surveillance, manipulation, and profit.
Google, Meta, Amazon and others built trillion-dollar empires by mining human behavior for data and monetizing that data to extract more profit. They trained algorithms to know what you’ll buy, who you’ll support, even what you’ll believe. They called it innovation. In reality, it was extraction of trillions of dollars worth of value mined from the public without consent or compensation.
The result is a digital economy where users own nothing, creators make scraps, and Big Tech companies who control the underlying infrastructure decide who gets to speak and who vanishes into the ether. Free speech became conditional. “Community guidelines” became political weapons. Your data became a currency you were never paid for.
Now, the very same companies who built that system are using it to stake their claim as the moral gatekeepers of AI. The very technology that could have empowered humanity is being trained on the data they stole our words, our photos, our conversations. Big Tech is using it to reposition themselves as gatekeepers once again, tightening their grip on power while offering only more of the same empty promises. AI won’t fix Big Tech’s problem. It is Big Tech’s next weapon.
Parler saw it coming. We refused to play their game.
When Parler was deplatformed, we saw the writing on the wall. It wasn’t just about content. It was about control. The only way to build a new, digital world free from this kind of political interference was to rebuild everything they controlled, from the top down, starting with the cloud.
That’s exactly what we did.
Parler is now powered by independent infrastructure free from every Big Tech lock-in. Our cloud, Triton Cloud, competes with AWS and Azure but it’s privately held and sovereign. Our Edgecast CDN takes care of global content delivery without traversing the networks that once deplatformed us. Our Kyvo Wallet processes crypto and fiat payments so users can send, receive, and trade money without banks or intermediaries. Our Optio Blockchain underpins rewards, paying users for activity instead of monetizing it behind closed doors.
We even built Cartix, an e-commerce solution that lets merchants keep up to 90% of every sale compared to Amazon’s 70% on average. Every part of our ecosystem was built to plug back into itself, tying users, creators, and businesses back into a loop where value is owned instead of extracted.
All this isn’t theory. It’s live. Parler’s rebuild is already distributing real rewards through Optio, powering creator earnings on PlayTV, and processing transactions through Kyvo. No ads tracking your behavior. No algorithms deciding who sees your work. No centralized overlords dictating what you’re allowed to say.
Big Tech’s entire business model is built around extraction and control. Parler’s is the exact opposite: reward and empowerment.
On the old platforms, every minute you spend online makes “them” richer. On Parler, it makes “you” earn. On their networks, your data is the product. On ours, your activity is the value. They sell your attention. We give it back to you.
The internet wasn’t designed to be the domain of corporations. It was designed to be the domain of people. Parler’s rebuild is the proof in the pudding that a new model is not only possible, it’s already working.
Big Tech’s model has created a problem for them. Their entire business depends on keeping users dependent, predictable, and compliant. But once you give people ownership, freedom, and transparency, there’s no going back.
Parler solved the problem they created.
We built an entire ecosystem that cannot be censored, cannot be mined, and cannot be owned by anyone but its users.
Big Tech built the machine. We built the exit.
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