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I've been very impressed with reclaimthenets stories recently, some big revelations.
This is certainly a convenient opportunity for every First Amendment advocate to defend speech they don't like. Or would be, if the government was the one taking action.
This is crossing a very bad line, and is absolutely unacceptable. My company of about 50 people on G-Suite will be canceling our subscription and moving to Office 365 within the next three months. We had discussed it in the past due to their history of flagrant disregard for the security and privacy standards we require, but this has galvanized the conversation and we're prioritizing it on the near-term now. I'm sure…
The future is all about self hosting and/or peer to peer technology not controlled by a central authority.
Most people don't, and get surprised when they find out the difference.
It's not entirely clear to me, but did Google delete the file from the user's personal, private drive, or did they delete public access to the file? Because the former is unacceptable, but the latter is not as big a deal at all.
I did not expect to see platform censorship accelerate at this rate. It always seems to be government and media dictating the terms of the censorship as well, which should be very concerning.
I'm not incredibly shocked. This is on some levels history repeating itself. Media has historically been 'self-regulating', if only because they want to avoid having regulations imposed on them.
However, this also has the not-unintentional side effect of those self regulating bodies also acting as gatekeepers.
Another parallel to draw: When the Hays code was challenged due to 1FA, the MPAA created the 'rating' system, in which movies have their content rated on by an unknown group of people impose their moral code, and remember before the age of the internet, you -had- to hit certain ratings to have any hope of a decent number of people seeing your movie. Any Adults-only rating would result in the overwhelming majority of theaters refusing to show the film.
Sure, you could still release it somewhere else.
Sound familiar?
Nobody's stopping them from signing up for AWS and throwing the vid into an S3 bucket or whatever, nor are they prevented from buying internet access from a company that offers static IPs and serving the file from an old PC in someone's closet.
This is crossing a very bad line, and is absolutely unacceptable. My company of about 50 people on G-Suite will be canceling our subscription and moving to Office 365 within the next three months. We had discussed it in the past due to their history of flagrant disregard for the security and privacy standards we require, but this has galvanized the conversation and we're prioritizing it on the near-term now. I'm sure…
The future is all about self hosting and/or peer to peer technology not controlled by a central authority.
It's not entirely clear to me, but did Google delete the file from the user's personal, private drive, or did they delete public access to the file? Because the former is unacceptable, but the latter is not as big a deal at all.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Network topological discovery is the hard pill to swallow with p2p based tech. You're paying for it in much higher network bandwidth, cpu, battery, and more. Eventually the tradeoffs will be so minuscule that they will be a rounding error. But right now, that's not true.
The harder pill is IPv4 and NAT. It used to be easier to grab a static IP from your ISP, but those days are gone for many of us. IPv6 could really foster a home network revolution, when it's finally in place 20 years from now.
This is crossing a very bad line, and is absolutely unacceptable. My company of about 50 people on G-Suite will be canceling our subscription and moving to Office 365 within the next three months. We had discussed it in the past due to their history of flagrant disregard for the security and privacy standards we require, but this has galvanized the conversation and we're prioritizing it on the near-term now. I'm sure…
The future is all about self hosting and/or peer to peer technology not controlled by a central authority.
FYI I run my own mail servers as a hobby, but still have my main personal account on gmail.
Wouldn't be surprised if this results in a Streissand effect.