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your content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
Come on. It would require non-trivial work to scrape the pages to get the html, set up parsing to handle different types of content, get into a format that could be imported into something else, etc. Not something I'm willing to spend my time setting up, and what about all the people who might want to export their tumblr content but can't program.
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It's not the point that the chance is low. The point is that there is any chance at all. No government should be allowed to seize domains. Ever.
That's just as sensationalist. Most people agree that there is a balance between the rights of individuals to do what they want, and the rights of the government to stop them if society benefits. For example, almost everyone agrees that the police shouldn't have unlimited power to search anyone they want. But almost no one argues that they should have no power to search people - just that a balance needs to be struck…
Besides, you got the part about rights of individuals wrong. The right to do what you want doesn't stop where the government thinks it should. It's where you start infringing on another individuals right to what he or she wants.
However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content. This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
your content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
For e.g. Wordpress to import Tumblr blogs they need to write an importer just for Tumblr's format, whereas if Tumblr used a standard like RSS, WP could use a generalist importer.
Don't underestimate the value of standard formats; the transport mechanism (XML/JSON/HTML) is a small detail.
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That's just as sensationalist. Most people agree that there is a balance between the rights of individuals to do what they want, and the rights of the government to stop them if society benefits. For example, almost everyone agrees that the police shouldn't have unlimited power to search anyone they want. But almost no one argues that they should have no power to search people - just that a balance needs to be struck…
Your just using ad populum here. That's not an argument. There is no benefit for anyone to be gained through domain seizures. It's just another gateway to censorship. Besides, you got the part about rights of individuals wrong. The right to do what you want doesn't stop where the government thinks it should. It's where you start infringing on another individuals right to what he or she wants.
See, that's where you lose me. If you take a moderate position, like "the benefits of keeping domains free outweigh the benefits of domain seizures", you might have a point.
But saying "there is no benefit for anyone" [emphasis mine] is clearly, demonstrably false. If a website contains instructions on making bombs, there is some benefit in taking it down. If a website contains lists of hitmen for hire, there is some benefit in taking it down. Even if the website only contains copyrighted material, there is some benefit to someone (the copyright holders) in taking it down.
You can stick to your "censorship is always always always evil" stance, but you'll likely find few people willing to seriously consider it.
However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content. This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
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its funny that i get minus karma for this post lol. but yeah id prefer some decentralized dns system where i would own my domain somehow well then again, dns depends also on static ips which we dont really own. with ipv6 we can be one step closer to owning the ip without being an isp however. can also setup rdns more easily.
>dns depends also on static ips. Not really, there's dynamic DNS. My home connection has a dynamic (well, semi-static) IP, so I use a dynamic DNS provider and a small monitoring utility to auto-update the IP when it changes.
Even blah.com depends on com and com depends on . (aka dot)
DNS being hierarchical, you never actually own the thing =/
There are decentralized DNS attempts tho
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your content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
The problem is not the transport format - HTML is no worse than JSON or XML - it's the lack of a standard schema . For e.g. Wordpress to import Tumblr blogs they need to write an importer just for Tumblr's format, whereas if Tumblr used a standard like RSS, WP could use a generalist importer. Don't underestimate the value of standard formats; the transport mechanism (XML/JSON/HTML) is a small detail.