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Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#142Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#143Of more concern, the Nitter github repository was permanently archived a couple of days ago. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
On that same page: UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.
The repo being archived happened after that UPDATE post that you mention. So the project has gone from suspended, to un-suspended, and now it's suspended again (and the repo got archived this time).
Edit: I see I'm being downvoted for just providing facts, so here's some evidence: you can see on the main project page that the repo was archived on 11 Sep[0]. Looking in the commits, the "UPDATE" message was commited on 6 Sep[1].
[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5...
Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#144Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does proxying someone else's content have to do with free speech?
Twitter is heavily login-gated, to the point that I can't see Twitter threads at all unless I have an account. I do not wish to make an account. Services like Nitter/XCancel allow me to read those threads, making that speech more free.
That’s not what free speech is.
Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#146Are there other instances available? X can't ban them all. I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide information for free. Privacy is important more than ever as many of us don't want to login into X.
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Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#147Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to admit, the “free speech” shield-wielding megalomaniac working so hard to keep people from freely accessing info isn’t exactly great optics.
I'm very much on the side of xcancel and nitter on this one, but I do think it's fair to point out that Twitter is free of monetary charge. It's not free in the sense that you do have to provide some personal information and data to them in exchange for that free account, but it isn't a huge roadblock for most people, however annoying it may be. Now that said, I sure hope Elon will pivot this and make these services…
The biggest frustration for a lot of people is that their municipalities use Twitter almost exclusively to communicate with their constituents, it _sucks_. I've pleaded and begged my city and county to have some other form of communication, in addition to Twitter/X, to mass distribute information.
Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
On that same page: UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.
> Following legal advice It's impossible to know what this "legal advice" was, but the software project itself is probably fine. The legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unauthorized access of Twitter's website. Seems like that could run afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Those people should seek their own legal advice.
I imagine it will be hosted in jurisdictions other than the US.
Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s the rehosting of the content not the scraping Edit: not a moral stance
I love how the content belongs to them when someone else reposts it but it belongs to the user if the content is illegal. Such a double standard with these social media and AI companies. Why do we put up with it?
> Why do we put up with it?
You let it happen. Once people stop letting it happen, it'll stop. But social media is apparently the new "opium of the masses" so here we are and no one wants to do anything.