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

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Post by weslleyskah »

sanskritical wrote: post #61
flipped wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

Tor and I2P are great technologies. ZLibrary, for example, runs an excellent Tor hidden service and it is usually the most reliable way to access news from the site. However, this did not remain true for a while when two of the operators were arrested. Tor and I2P require you to have infrastructure online. The point of "check Wikipedia for news" is that you can have something persist even if you do not have your serv…

If they can't figure it out anything else, I think Tor is the most plausible tech to be used. What are the alternatives if these other services don't provide enough traffic to sustent the download speed of the files? Something old like USENET certainly can't be used anymore.

I hope they follow the same pathway of The Pirate Bay or Rutracker.

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

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Post by flipped »

xtracto wrote: post #146
flipped wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better have a .onion. It's almost impossible to seize and you control the keys. YOU ARE THE OWNER, not some for-profit registrar. Onions should be the default, it's secure (you own the keys), decentralized and far better than relying on CAs for encryption.

Namecoin has had all the DNS issues fixed since 2011. It is one of the few real and useful applications of bitcoin based technology. Somehow it never got too the attention it deserved. It was also the first known "altcoin"

Namecoin sounds very promising, first time hearing about it.

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

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Post by guelo »

Zak wrote: post #184
pbiggar wrote: post #113

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The Gaza video archive is https://genocide.live , and it was Namecheap that took it down. https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2006732606164152651

It looks like it has been restored, and responsibility attributed to a moderator acting hastily due to the extreme nature of the content: https://sunur.substack.com/p/namecheap-stole-the-domain-of-g... I don't like the idea of registrars doing moderation at all.

> liberal progressive hypocrisy

zionist mccarthyism isn't progressive

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

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Post by physicles »

ddingus wrote: post #241
jacquesm wrote: post #135

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Those guys should get a prize for resilience alone, they put many government run services to shame. The only thing all this legal stuff seems to have done is to harden them even further.

Such great moves! On their way down, the original creators made sure The Pirate Bay would continue to be that gift that keeps on giving.

If anyone hasn’t heard it, the podcast Darknet Diaries episode 92 (2021-05-11) is a great listen.

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

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Post by guelo »

ddingus wrote: post #241
jacquesm wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those guys should get a prize for resilience alone, they put many government run services to shame. The only thing all this legal stuff seems to have done is to harden them even further.

Such great moves! On their way down, the original creators made sure The Pirate Bay would continue to be that gift that keeps on giving.

Do not go there without ublock! The ads on there, especially porn ads, have gotten out of control. Who is it that's making money off of thepiratebay these days?

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

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Post by timeon »

hagbard_c wrote: post #169
immibis wrote: post #127

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[flagged]

Visible to me, it is not Musk who keeps you from seeing this. Use an X proxy like Nitter to see the content without logging in, that's how I read things on X. These proxies can not be used to post there but since I've never felt the need to post anything there that's no problem to me.

> Visible to me

> that's how I read things on X

So you are not following posted link either.

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

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Post by hamdingers »

eli wrote: post #226
mmooss wrote: post #164

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Archiving it and publishing it are different things. More importantly, they may sabotage their mission: If Spotify shuts them down, their exiting archives and especially future archives may be effectively lost.

I'm not sure archiving and publishing are different things.

They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless.

I occasionally wonder how many enormous collections of culture like that of Marion Stokes[1] have been lost because their curators made no effort to realize the value of their collection.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

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

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Post by timeon »

schmuckonwheels wrote: post #248
gpm wrote: post #245

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Your point is that... Wikpedia editors choice to have articles about sex acts is morally inconsistent with a choice not to have direct links to a site a based around harassing, stalking, doxing, etc that has been directly tied to multiple suicides? I don't see the connection frankly. PS. English Wikipedia also does not appear to have an "Anal Creampie" article, let alone one with an animation.

[flagged]

How did you found the link?

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

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Post by constantius »

Zak wrote: post #184
pbiggar wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gaza video archive is https://genocide.live , and it was Namecheap that took it down. https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/2006732606164152651

It looks like it has been restored, and responsibility attributed to a moderator acting hastily due to the extreme nature of the content: https://sunur.substack.com/p/namecheap-stole-the-domain-of-g... I don't like the idea of registrars doing moderation at all.

Thanks for linking this article! However, the full description of the incident seems that Namecheap blocked the domain, the CEO got into tweet arguments justifying it (and taking inconsistent positions), and after the backlash said it was a hasty block by the mod team, without an apology.

I generally give NC the benefit of the doubt (because of their principled stance on Ukraine, which to me means they can be principled elsewhere too), but in this case it's very difficult to explain it away.

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

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Post by rurban »

tavavex wrote: post #252
goku12 wrote: post #101

Well! Not really a surprise, is it? We knew that DNS censorship was coming sooner or later. The real surprise is that it lasted so long. X509 (TLS) PKI is also probably being abused right now. We know how differently the administration sees services like these that are actually beneficial to humanity. Choosing to rely on services like DNS and PKI exclusively for the function they provide is a very bad idea going forw…

I wonder if in the interim period between DNS blocks and full IP bans, some websites will start distributing their IP addresses directly as the "official" way to connect to them.

Just add the censored IP's to your /etc/hosts file, and don't care.
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