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Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by vaksel »

nostromo wrote: post #19

> Didn’t take long to get banned from Google+ our Gmail is also gone... This is a major concern for me and Google+. Who knows what violates their community standards -- and loosing my gmail (and google docs, and analytics and...) because of Google+ is unfathomable. Google+ really needs to separate out its services so that running afoul of the Google+ "community standards" dosn't lead to the death of all your Google s…

the thing to worry about with Google, is that they are notorious for changing the rules and banning people retroactively for things they did in the past.

happened to me with my adwords account, ran a campaign just fine...paused it...then 8 months later got my account permanently suspended by a bot for a campaign that's been paused for 8 months.

contacting adwords was useless since they just repeat that there is nothing they can do.

Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by a3_nm »

michaelchisari wrote: post #5

Or they could support existing open source social networking projects, instead of, once again, reinventing the wheel.

Or, if they want to be in control, provide an implementation of one of the existing federated social networking standards.

Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by 51Cards »

They didn't create their own social network. They registered a domain, added a development forum, wrote an ethereal sounding warning message about the coming 'future', wrapped it in a goth inspired theme, and posted it to the internet. They are two different things. The "Revision :0.1 Alpha" at the bottom is what makes me smile the most.

That said I'm not against them coming up with an open anonymous social network... I think that would be an interesting addition to the online world. However to say they created their own social network at this point is slightly over-stated. I look forward to seeing what they produce.

Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by Darkstar »

This is fatally flawed by virtue of the fact that it's a .com. The US government has already claimed it has jurisdiction over the com TLD. Should a judge agree that means the social network could be shut down just by appropriating the domain. Also, anonymous is supposed to be decentralized whereas this is anything but. I like some of what anonymous does, but I don't trust them at all.

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Post by icebraining »

Darkstar wrote: post #25

This is fatally flawed by virtue of the fact that it's a .com. The US government has already claimed it has jurisdiction over the com TLD. Should a judge agree that means the social network could be shut down just by appropriating the domain. Also, anonymous is supposed to be decentralized whereas this is anything but. I like some of what anonymous does, but I don't trust them at all.

That site isn't the social network, that apparently is only in planning phase. It's just a forum.

Re: Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

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Post by icebraining »

javadyan wrote: post #8

And what are they going to do, reinvent Diaspora?

That's actually what I found confusing; they seem to be planning to build it all from scratch.

And then there is "The relationship database with permissions is kept on a central server". So much for decentralization.

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