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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'

#11

Parler 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.

there's plenty of big colocation and hosting companies in Russia.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

#13

Parler 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.

Again, plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.

Parler just didn’t care.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

#14
post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

They just gave millions of people a reason to investigate rooting their devices.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

They just gave millions of people a reason to investigate rooting their devices.

You don't need to root your device to install an .apk. It's all about friction. The harder you make it for people to do something, the less people will do it. It's always a very effective strategy.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

Why not just use a web app? I don’t have the Twitter app installed because the web app does everything I need.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

Not having an app does not mean that the mobile interface doesn't work.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

#18
post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

Not having an app does not mean that the mobile interface doesn't work.

you mean through the browser?

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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post #16
post #12

> Embarrassing The site not being online may be embarrassing from a risk management standpoint, but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway.

Why not just use a web app? I don’t have the Twitter app installed because the web app does everything I need.

Most non techies rather use apps in my experience, but I may be wrong.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

#20

>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…

It also doesn't make sense because terrorists would obviously be using encrypted channels primarily, not some shabby public plain text forum. And most organization would be on Facebook, with orders of magnitude more users and better tools.
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