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

Post by um_ya » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

CryptoGhost wrote: post #32

bobsmooth wrote: post #7

Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.

You don't even need to do that. The actual key to running an extremist / subversive / hate / unpopular website is NOT connecting the site to any in-person activities. As long as your website is just some text floating out there in the network there is a lot of wiggle room. Sure, companies like Google or WordPress will ban you if they don't like you, but you can still get service from Cloudflare, major web hosts, or d…

Post by mc32 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:04 AM UTC

jakelazaroff wrote: post #51

Meekro wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems reasonable to me! If your reason for existing is that "information wants to be free" but then you start making exceptions when it conflicts with your politics, people might think your real political philosophy is "pop music wants to be free."

Or, more charitably: your stance on information and freedom simply isn’t absolutist.

Post by rodgerd » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:04 AM UTC

newacct583 wrote: post #2

Parler 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…

Post by dionian » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

alphabet9000 wrote: post #38

"We don't condone gun violence. We believe that the world needs less guns, not more of them. We believe however that these prints will stay on the internets regardless of blocks and censorship, since that's how the internets works. If there's a lunatic out there who wants to print guns to kill people, he or she will do it. With or without TPB. Better to have these prints out in the open internets (TPB) and up for pee…

Post by ggggtez » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

idrios wrote: post #56

CryptoGhost wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't even need to do that. The actual key to running an extremist / subversive / hate / unpopular website is NOT connecting the site to any in-person activities. As long as your website is just some text floating out there in the network there is a lot of wiggle room. Sure, companies like Google or WordPress will ban you if they don't like you, but you can still get service from Cloudflare, major web hosts, or d…

Tbf, I don't think Parler ever saw itself as extremist. Obviously it was used by extremists, but as I've seen mentioned in other threads lately: When you create an alternative platform from the mainstream, the people who join it are either idealists, or are the people who were banned from the mainstream platforms. And if you don't have the resources to moderate those extremists (or foolishly choose not to), the extre…