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Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by Matl »

marcosdumay wrote: post #166
Matl wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neoliberal as in prominent decision makers/editors etc, such as Jimmy Wales express the sort of free market and foreign policy philosophy that has been mainstream since about the 80s. It means that entries on individuals, countries etc. are broadly in line with what you'd read in any mainstream media outlet and so is its outlook on 'Western civilization'. That doesn't mean it's not a good project, or that it has some…

> express the sort of free market and foreign policy philosophy that has been mainstream since about the 80s Let's see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve Right on the introduction it clearly says that any argument based on the curve is pseudo-science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus Is biased in claiming the consensus is a contentious topic, instead of only a tiny well founded minority eve…

> What is about exactly the same bias you would see on the main literature of both subjects.

I think you just answered your own question.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by ddingus »

nashashmi wrote: post #198
squigz wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

> For now this is a torrents-only archive aimed at preservation, but if there is enough interest, we could add downloading of individual files to Anna’s Archive. Please let us know if you’d like this. If it is torrents only, what relevance does unregistering the domain make?

Establishing a position Anna's opponents may consider an advantage.

And there is a site idea!

Annasopponents.news --> Can inform passersby on anything related to Anna's Archive along with activism related material, how to's and the like.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by weslleyskah »

MarsIronPI wrote: post #214
lukan wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Annas archive is not based in the EU (sorry for being not clear). So the law in EU is limited to enforce a ban. In germany it is already "banned" via ISP but just DNS. But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts. So unless the EU installs a great firewall like china, they cannot really shut it down.

> But the real servers are hosted in kazachstan or russia I think. And they do not cooperate so much with EU courts. I believe the "official" AA servers only host the website + source code. The actual copyrighted content is stored by volunteers who seed the torrents.

Exactly, this is why the 'Hydra' is difficult to take it down.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by adrianN »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #157
reorder9695 wrote: post #74

I always wonder why sites like Anna's Archive (and a lot of torrent tracker sites) don't provide .onion addresses. I imagine a significant proportion of their traffic comes from the Tor network, and onion addresses don't have this same weakness that regular DNS addresses have as they're just the key. I can't imagine if they have the servers already up and running, running an .onion address is that much more work cons…

Onion/Tor has horrendous latency and throughput. Latency is bearable, but dial-up speeds for downloading can drive one insane.

It has been a few years since I last used Tor, but even back then you could download at megabit speeds over the network. I would assume that the situation has improved, I’m surprised that you seem to report the opposite.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by ddingus »

exe34 wrote: post #137
immibis wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Free speech absolutist!

That line will haunt Musk to the end of his days. That was a very sexy thing to say, but quite a different beast when it is time to walk the talk.

Musk has buckled, talking the walk instead.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by marcosdumay »

Matl wrote: post #231
marcosdumay wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> express the sort of free market and foreign policy philosophy that has been mainstream since about the 80s Let's see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve Right on the introduction it clearly says that any argument based on the curve is pseudo-science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus Is biased in claiming the consensus is a contentious topic, instead of only a tiny well founded minority eve…

> What is about exactly the same bias you would see on the main literature of both subjects. I think you just answered your own question.

Why do out single out the neoliberal one if each subject clearly has a different bias?

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by exe34 »

ddingus wrote: post #235
exe34 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free speech absolutist!

That line will haunt Musk to the end of his days. That was a very sexy thing to say, but quite a different beast when it is time to walk the talk. Musk has buckled, talking the walk instead.

he's a psychopath like the rest of them rich and powerful. he'll say anything that will get him more wealth and influence.

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by weslleyskah »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #176
hliyan wrote: post #13

Is this an abuse of the ServerHold status? Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently? > This status code is set by your domain's Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS. > If you provided delegation information (name servers), this status may indicate an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to request more information.…

The fascist website Stormfront lost their .org in 2017 with some very unclear procedural action, but I don't think it was a ServerHold. It was offline for quite awhile and I think genuinely hurt the site. Although it looks like it's back now?

I think this was genuinely due to the Norwegian Massacre. The guy who did it had an account on stormfront. The whole thing exploded and the owner had to explain that he was not in contact with the mass murderer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by schmuckonwheels »

gpm wrote: post #210
miroljub wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a common problem of English, German, and a few more Wikipedia editor gangs seeing themselves as the moral guardians of the internet. If you switch to some other languages, you'll find the links.

Having a sense of morality is not a problem. Good for them.

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Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by ddingus »

miroljub wrote: post #191
immibis wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block, that's the end of the internet as we know it, and the return to national networks with very limited interconnection. Even Russia still has address registrations despite being sanctioned. Alternatively they pressure USA ISPs to block the addresses. That's already regularly done but it probably won't be enough to satisfy the extortion industrial…

> When Trump pressures RIPE NCC or APNIC to deregister an IP address block sed "/Trump/US-Govt/g" Why do people here always casually single out Trump? He's not an outlier, it's just how US foreign policy has worked for centuries.

"Not an outlier"

A quick look at the last few administrations is all anyone needs to see how this one interprets the powers and duties that come with the office.

One of my favorite phrases coined during the last Trump administration was something like, "not just wrong, but wrong beyond normal parameters." It basically meant exactly what we are discussing here; namely, being an outlier of some sort.

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