Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#2Parler was, at the end of the day, a somewhat amateurish Twitter clone whose essential growth hack was that they decided to serve as a kind of ban evasion mechanism for Twitter. They had virtually no organic growth of their own, they worked by accepting the banned castoffs from another service and promising not to do any moderation.
And then we had a historical incident of political violence perpetrated by the same demographic. Move fast and break things indeed.
But "staying online" isn't the Parler goal. Matze wanted to run an internet giant, not keep a seedy right wing reactionary forum alive. I mean, 4chan and 8kun already fill that market.
He's just going to pack it up, keep his head down, and try not to get sued (or charged).
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#3>In more recent years, Kolmoisoppi has moved on to fund Njalla, a privacy-centric domain name registration service. One he says was already asked to host Parler, and refused.
>“Of course we wouldn't,” Kolmisoppi said. “We're pro human rights, which includes the right to not be killed by extreme right wing terrorists.”
Why do I see this embarrassing justification so often? It doesn't make sense to equate speech with violence.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#4Parler was, at the end of the day, a somewhat amateurish Twitter clone whose essential growth hack was that they decided to serve as a kind of ban evasion mechanism for Twitter. They had virtually no organic growth of their own, they worked by accepting the banned castoffs from another service and promising not to do any moderation. And then we had a historical incident of political violence perpetrated by the same d…
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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#5>In more recent years, Kolmoisoppi has moved on to fund Njalla, a privacy-centric domain name registration service. One he says was already asked to host Parler, and refused. >“Of course we wouldn't,” Kolmisoppi said. “We're pro human rights, which includes the right to not be killed by extreme right wing terrorists.” Why do I see this embarrassing justification so often? It doesn't make sense to equate speech with v…
You think it's a mistake to compare death threats to violence? Or a mistake to compare organizing terrorist attacks against the government to violence?
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#6Parler was, at the end of the day, a somewhat amateurish Twitter clone whose essential growth hack was that they decided to serve as a kind of ban evasion mechanism for Twitter. They had virtually no organic growth of their own, they worked by accepting the banned castoffs from another service and promising not to do any moderation. And then we had a historical incident of political violence perpetrated by the same d…
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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#7Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#8It comes down to everyone wanting to do what they want and finding collective in that separation. Ultimately it's just cult mentality and that's what humans are like. This is why we war.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#9Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.
There are ToS at Colo facilities also, renting rack space isn't foolproof either.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#10Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.
There are ToS at Colo facilities also, renting rack space isn't foolproof either.
Sites like stormfront manage to stay up, despite being way older and arguably more extreme.