Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality • Hacker News Board

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by fweespeech » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 6:12 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #13

fweespeech wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is archiving a bunch of porn really safe legally? I always had the impression archiving a large number of copyrighted images wasn't.

It goes into cold storage for a later date.

Thanks. :)

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by Veratyr » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 6:35 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #132

Veratyr wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 0: Acquire at least ~1PB of storage to store all the data.

I have over 1PB of storage at my disposal.

Business or personal? It's doable but it's a lot of money to buy all those drives.

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by pasbesoin » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 7:08 AM UTC

I realize that Verizon and Verizon Wireless are now separate businesses. Nonetheless -- and also because of increasing suckage at Verizon Wireless -- once T-Mobile deploys on its newly acquired lower frequency spectrum and fills in some rural holes I need, I'm going to drop Verizon Wireless like a hot potato.

I wonder how much PR and good will damage/loss Verizon's behavior is generating.

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 7:20 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

waterphone wrote: post #2

They're also forcing all adult-oriented content on Tumblr (which isn't limited to porn, although porn makes up the majority of their userbase) behind a logged-in-users-only wall, blocking it from non-Tumblr users and in turn, external search engine results. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tumblr-rolls-out-new-conte...

Oi, I suppose archiving Tumblr is this weekend's project.

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Tumblr

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by rmc » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 7:29 AM UTC

waterphone wrote: post #25

tptacek wrote: post #17

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Porn makes up the majority of Tumblr's userbase?

Tumblr has a huge porn community, and always has. I don't have actual statistics, but it's huge. In general, people on tumblr might have a regular, personal blog, and then a side blog where they reblog and/or comment on/add captions to pornographic images, gifs and videos. In that sense, they can sort of curate porn that interests and appeals to them. The addition of this personal touch and intellectual component app…

Sounds a lot like what happened with LiveJournal. About 10-15 years ago LJ was where all the LGBT and niche erotic interests where, like fanfic. It's been bought by a Russian company and they've been turning the screws on the LGBT users for years.

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by boulos » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 7:51 AM UTC

Veratyr wrote: post #142

toomuchtodo wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have over 1PB of storage at my disposal.

Business or personal? It's doable but it's a lot of money to buy all those drives.

$6k for 600T fully assembled backblaze storage pod: https://www.backuppods.com (no affiliation, just pointing out that ~$12k isn't a massive amount).

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by amiga-workbench » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 8:12 AM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #138

jandrese wrote: post #128

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This assumes there is commentary on Tumblr worth saving.

I'm guessing you've bought into the meme that Tumblr is literally nothing but left-wing politics.

That and porn, and Stephen Universe fans.

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by akerro » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 9:13 AM UTC

boogiepoppu wrote: post #82

Net neutrality? Don't make me laugh. Yahoo was one of the biggest PRISM benefactors.

Yahoo was also the only (?) company that stood up to NSA.

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by nl » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 9:37 AM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #99

boogiepoppu wrote: post #82

Net neutrality? Don't make me laugh. Yahoo was one of the biggest PRISM benefactors.

What does PRISM have to do with Net Neutrality?

Not only is the OP wrong to try to link them (?) but they are wrong about Yahoo being a beneficiary (??)

Yahoo fought hard against Prism and only gave up when threatened with a $250,000/day fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-laws...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ru...

Re: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

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Post by lmm » Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 10:03 AM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #131

hellbanner wrote: post #126

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another comment by oh_sigh downvoted out of disagreement with facts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14597026

Don't cry for me, I'm a low quality poster(or rather, I tend to match the quality of posts I respond to, which are frequently low quality posts) who dang has had to put in place multiple times. But I will say that I originally created this username many years ago to at least try to rebut ridiculously wrong things which were popularly accepted in the comments section, or right things which were down voted, so I am use…

A poorly stated truth contributes less to the discussion than a well-formed but incorrect post. Or at least, the end result is that I find the discussion here more valuable than on most of the web (as much as it's declined under dang's niceness policies).