Parler failed to moderate to the standards of Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter, oh my
Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
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Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#452Use saas, it's safe, they said...
It’s safe to promote hate they said... not.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#453Statement by John Matze "Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products. We will try our be…
TIL Parler was all free speech.
When did they co-opt HN? ;)
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#454Why do these companies suddenly now care about enforcing the mantra of the integrity of the electoral system now, and not in 2016? Why do these companies suddenly now care about sites hosting content that encourages violent activity now, and not in June?
Because a major news event happened just a few days ago that removed all ambiguity or uncertainty about the seriousness of the issue.
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#455I'm not fully informed on what content triggered these decisions by Google and Apple but if people are worried about too much power concentrations then the right approach for Parler is to sue and see how the court system decides whether these decisions were legal. Assuming the society as a whole has faith in the judicial system.
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#456Everyone saying they deserve it for "facilitating attacks on the US government", ask yourself if you believe Antifa should be kicked off of every platform they exist on for burning police stations. This is hypocrisy. Far too much of modern tech is held by companies happy to use it as a political weapon, and all for one side. I'm disgusted by the people who populate Parler, but I'm actually afraid of these tech author…
Sorry, what are you referring to? Would love to see links to police stations being burnt by organized groups.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#457Comment on r/aws:
>I am praying and hoping that Parler chose to use DynamoDB, Cognito, API GW, lambda functions, SnS//SQS , Cloudwatch etc. :-D
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#458Let this be a lesson: always have your own bare metal servers to eliminate cloud hosting provider risk.
Only really necessary if you plan to be the unmoderated sump where all the people kicked off of Twitter end up. Different services have different risk profiles.
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#459The United States is done. The tools that this community is building to enable political censorship will surely come back to you. You can call this Democracy. But this feels like Authoritarianism. I'm so disappointed in Silicon Valley and those in the Hacker News Community that are stamping out free expression. Shame on you.
The United States will be done in by... stamping out the free expression of openly organizing to commit sedition against the United States.
Spare us.
Re: Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
#460I've read comments saying, "if you don't like Apple's policies, build a new smartphone." Are these people aware that that the same type of argument lead to the creation of parler: "if you don't like twitter censorship, build a new platform". It will be built. What then? At this point we are heading towards a complete mitosis of our information channels based on political ideology.
We can't live in a world where people are allowed to openly plot the death of other people.