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What happened to Silicon Valley? Just a few years ago, something like this would have triggered libertarian-leaning outrage, especially on HN. Remember the vigorous defenses on here of Backpage? Suddenly everyone’s clutching their pearls and cheering bans that are increasingly broad and unfocused.
I’ve noticed a pattern of moving the goal post. The problem here is an insurrection and the loss of 5 American lives. Arguing there is not advantageous, easy, or particularly strong so the goal post moves to free speech leaving what happened at the capitol off the table.
I really enjoy the series on YouTube “the alt right playbook”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPgDQkmqqM&list=PLJA_jUddXv... This one is applicable here
Finally "Fediverse" will now become a household word! Applications like Mastodon, Pleroma, and the platform I'm developing myself ( https://quanta.wiki ) can now hopefully gain enough traction to replace the monopoly Social Media services.
First: good riddance. Let the neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists make do with Stormfront or 4chan. Second: regardless of your politics/beliefs, this is what people get for not self-hosting. 1. Putting your site on AWS is not self-hosting. 2. Putting your site on Github Pages is not self-hosting. 3. Putting your site on Cloudflare is not self-hosting. 4. Putting your site on shared hosting or a VPS like Dream…
To some degree I think this is what they (Parler) wanted, it creates press and attention for them. It's free advertising. Whether it be hosting your domain with GoDaddy or your servers with Amazon, you would have to be incompetent to not believe this would be a likely outcome.
This is only the beginning. If you think these people are just going to go quietly into the night, I think you will be horribly surprised.
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It always has been and we gradually allowed it.
America has become the nation of instant justice. Allegations are not evidence are not proof. We are witnessing a mass lynching.
Anyone can cancel your cloud service at any time, subject to the terms you agreed to when you hosted your shit.
Claiming this is a lynching is mind-blowingly insulting to the legacy of real people who were actually lynched (for nothing other than being black or brown near white people).
If you want to host hate speech, you’d be wise to invest in hardware somewhere beyond the US’s jurisdiction.
I think it's in the interest of the FBI and CIA to covertly run a service that caters to the extremists, so that they can monitor their activities. If they get driven underground, it will be harder to maintain tabs on them, but the create a platform that let's them talk among themselves, it seems as easy as shooting fish in a barrel!
We need more apps like https://quanta.wiki that allow not just Social Media, but secure E2E encrypted communications, and file sharing.