I wonder what the engineering quality and opsec was at facebook, a year or two after the Zuck built it to steal people's cell numbers.
Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
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Look the RCMP isn't going to raid a startup because they find human rights violation going on Sure we got watchdogs but those are meant for blue collar workers with union. > However, Canada is also filled with self-righteous descendants (I mean it culturally) of puritans who take it upon themselves to adjudicate others. I 100% AGREE. When I dated an 18yo everybody flipped and said I was the worst. > (Quebec excepted.…
You've posted way, way too many unsubstantive and flamebait comments to HN, including in this thread. The swerve here to a completely off-topic flamewar amounts to trolling. Please stop now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are right this got out of hand really quick I didn't expect people to react like this. I apologize and will follow the rules. Thanks.
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It is grounds for terminating hosting when AWS has repeatedly asked you to remove said content AND they've offered to help you migrate you off of AWS. See court filings - https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664... Or for specific sections, see https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/134916216569825280...
I was skimming through it and couldn't really find any smoking gun about them missing any hard deadlines for content removal. If you take a site like Reddit, it can take days before all violent / threatening language is removed from a given thread. A lot of the content AWS uses as exhibits is borderline, so its not as simple as approve some auto filter. I am assuming Parler just took on the scale of weeks to months t…
It would be foolish of Amazon’s legal team to make an argument like they did and not be able to back it up with proof, imo.
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> but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway Right, like OnlyFans has no meaningful presence
People are already conditioned to need a web browser to view adult content, and if you are an adult content platform, your competitors are also missing from app store as well. This doesn't work out the same for social media. Doubly so because a social media platform benefits from integrations like notifications which are missing from iOS Safari.
That's like saying PC gamers are conditioned to using windows. They're not "conditioned" to anything, people go where the thing they want is.
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This entire comment thread can be asterisked with “for now”. GoDaddy kicked off AR15.com with no reason at all, they were fine with the content... until the moment they weren’t. The problem has always been a TOS that is selectively and interpretively enforced. It’s just popular this week. > I don't want to have to think about the political beliefs of a CEO before deciding to use a service. ffs no joke! I was embarras…
Shut the fuck up and do our job hasn't really worked well once the capitol was attacked, those people were organizing in public in many social media platforms (not just Parler!) and people working at those social media companies shut the fuck up and did their job. And then that happened. Are you saying that staying silent is the answer once you have people organizing to take down the government? How will your busines…
> Are you saying that staying silent is the answer once you have people organizing to take down the government? How will your business operate once the government is down?
Let's dispatch with the second one first. Even if you bulldozed the entire city of DC and everyone who works there was permanently relocated to the North Pole by Santa Claus to make toys for little children forever, there would still be a government because there is a constitutional process for electing or hiring some other people to do it.
So what should platforms do about this? That's too narrow a question. It's what should society do about this? Step one, arrest the people breaking the law. Violence and calls for violence are illegal. At which point it's not clear that we even need a step two, because then the relevant people are in jail.
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#316Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…
> The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next) I'm really glad she did that. I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down, but it really needs to be archived somewhere for historical purposes, to help understand this moment. Given the kind of media and political impact Trump's tweets from @theRealDonaldTrump have been, I really hope they're archived at NARA along with the @POTUS twe…
> "I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down"
I understand this on a visceral level, but I wish more people would look beyond that to the implications for communication on the web. This action by Amazon happens to correspond with what I think is right and just on first iteration, but what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with?
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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…
I do not know if it was the original intention of the founders, but you can't ignore that the people who are/were funding it are influential far-right figures.
Are they though? Maybe I just lack some knowledge but it seems there's a trend where these definitions are shifting so that right become far right, and sometimes even people who would have been left are suddenly being called right.
That said I don't know much about these particular people.
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A different take on Parler's connection (or not) to the events of 6 Jan 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20210112145206/https://greenwald...
he continues to be a shocking disappointment, the worst kind of contrarian. you gotta think snowden regrets going to him.
Would you mind expanding on this? Something in this article prompted you to write this, but I honestly don't see what. Can you explain it like I'm 5?
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> The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next) I'm really glad she did that. I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down, but it really needs to be archived somewhere for historical purposes, to help understand this moment. Given the kind of media and political impact Trump's tweets from @theRealDonaldTrump have been, I really hope they're archived at NARA along with the @POTUS twe…
> "I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down" I understand this on a visceral level, but I wish more people would look beyond that to the implications for communication on the web. This action by Amazon happens to correspond with what I think is right and just on first iteration, but what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with?
The only principal that protects that kind of group is that we agree with it. It’s not much, but it’s something.
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IIRC, one of the poor design choices was making their resource URLs (videos, pictures, etc) sequential - this reduces the effort of crawling everything down to a 'for' loop; no need to get the actual "db" for references. As a bonus, those media resources were not stripped of metadata (EXIF data in images was present)
... like this website? ;P I honestly don't see anything wrong with that design: permissions should be honored--and Parler did something really wrong here that caused people to be able to gain admin status from them--but, past that, if someone wants to download the whole site why not let them?
This website doesn't do private messages an such. Every comment and post is public. However, on social networks where you do have that function, a user might have a legit reason to want a video to be private.
When you have media that is private, if the numbering is sequential, it is easy to figure out what you can't see vs what doesn't exist. Using random IDs means that someone looking from the outside cannot reliably figure out how much content is hosted and check for private data on that service.
A secondary issue is that having an auto-increment in your database is a recipe for having really slow HA options and you can't scale hard either because it's fundamentally hard to sync auto-increments between multiple nodes that don't leave gaps in the ID namespace or are really slow.