It's just fucking bullshit that we can get to this point.
The free market is supposed to protect against things like this from happening. You legally cannot persecute an entity for their views.
Parler is a paying customer of Amazon. They are supposed to have rights.
What happened in this country that allowed for attitudes like this to manifest?
Edit: To the Doomers DMing me that businesses having the discretion to do business with whom they please is the free market, get fucked. You shouldn't be able to discriminate against someone else just for their views. I don't care about whether a gay couple could get a cake and what the Supreme Court said about it. This affects us.
What makes you think that things aren't going according to plan? Only a complete idiot would put something on the cloud, especially at this size. (Granted, the dude didn't capitalize Internet.) The deplatforming thing has been going on for four SOLID years now. Once you have your servers spread out across enough datacenters, it is almost too much effort to even try. I don't trust Parler, especially the part about them requiring a phone number to join. The same applies to Signal. I don't know how much spying goes on on Signal, but I don't like whose slimy hands have been over it.
You need to keep up with the times. Everything is moving to cloud. Netflix uses amazon servers. The largest companies around are using servers hosted by Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc.
If you build your own servers, you still need a co-location. If you host on your own site, you still rely on Telcos for bandwidth.
At some point, you need to rely on the existing ecosystem, and at some point someone is going to have the power to shut you down
This is one of the reasons I dream of truly decentralised internet. Peer-to-peer mobile networks. I have some vague ideas for solving some of the challenges around location tracking, privacy, security and resource sharing.
They involve private home location servers (just a cellphone you always leave at home as a forwarding device, with a well-known ID/gps coordinate), blockchain rewards for proxying traffic, end-to-end private key encryption.
It's just fucking bullshit that we can get to this point.
The free market is supposed to protect against things like this from happening. You legally cannot persecute an entity for their views.
Parler is a paying customer of Amazon. They are supposed to have rights.
What happened in this country that allowed for attitudes like this to manifest?
Edit: To the Doomers DMing me that businesses having the discretion to do business with whom they please is the free market, get fucked. You shouldn't be able to discriminate against someone else just for their views. I don't care about whether a gay couple could get a cake and what the Supreme Court said about it. This affects us.
What makes you think that things aren't going according to plan? Only a complete idiot would put something on the cloud, especially at this size. (Granted, the dude didn't capitalize Internet.) The deplatforming thing has been going on for four SOLID years now. Once you have your servers spread out across enough datacenters, it is almost too much effort to even try. I don't trust Parler, especially the part about them requiring a phone number to join. The same applies to Signal. I don't know how much spying goes on on Signal, but I don't like whose slimy hands have been over it.
You need to keep up with the times. Everything is moving to cloud. Netflix uses amazon servers. The largest companies around are using servers hosted by Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc.
If you build your own servers, you still need a co-location. If you host on your own site, you still rely on Telcos for bandwidth.
At some point, you need to rely on the existing ecosystem, and at some point someone is going to have the power to shut you down
This is one of the reasons I dream of truly decentralised internet. Peer-to-peer mobile networks. I have some vague ideas for solving some of the challenges around location tracking, privacy, security and resource sharing.
They involve private home location servers (just a cellphone you always leave at home as a forwarding device, with a well-known ID/gps coordinate), blockchain rewards for proxying traffic, end-to-end private key encryption.