Parler is teaming up with a Russian internet company – what could go wrong?

Talk – the social media network that claims to be a bastion of free speech because it allows its users to spit hate speech and plan to overthrow the United States, but bans left-wing users – has gone associated with DDoS-Guard, a company based in Putin’s dictatorial theocratic oligarchy.

From the New York Times:

If Parler routes its web traffic through DDoS-Guard when its full website returns, experts said, Russian law could allow the Russian government to monitor Parler users.

Alina Polyakova, head of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, said Russia is demanding that many internet companies in the country install technology that feeds the government a copy of much of the data passing through their computer servers.

The surveillance system, known as the System for Operational Investigative Activities, “essentially allows the Russian government to intercept all data on Russian territory and provide that data to the FSB,” said Polyakova, who studied control of Russia. On the Internet. She added that it was not clear whether DDoS-Guard would be subject to such surveillance.