I’m surprised tech people would be so careless with their stated reasons. It’s very easy to look almost any of this kind of thing up to see they’re lying.
Tech people just do the programming jobs, add features, fix bugs, create applications. We are creators of things, it's not up to us what and how it is used. It's our duty to make applications versatile, not to impose our personal preferences. We create default values for options, something like recommended settings, but the point is to be able to change them without changing the code itself. So we add whitelists and blacklists, and add options for banning in various ways like "trends", without being aware of the implications.
Hell, I could create a system to automatically moderate comments with a learning AI, necessitating some moderation at the beginning as input and then working on its own. It could be used to filter out actual nasty comments or to create a powerful language control tool for propagandistic purposes.
You can use guns to shoot bad guys or good guys - it's up to its user. And programmers are overwhelmingly not the users. Bosses make decisions.
If I had time and money, I could create a revolutionary free speech platform meant for having the best possible ways to debate - it would be primarily a challenge for UI - how to display it best. On Reddit, here, and regular forums you have the issue of conversations getting too messy too quickly, and only notifying a single person with every reply. It's a challenging problem to solve, but there are things that can be tried.
Yeah they have a list of prohibited activities that vary from host to host, though there are some usuals — like porn accounts have to be a higher tier of service if they’re allowed at all.
Hell I once had hosting canceled years ago because I accidentally uploaded a porn video to a non public section of my site because I was doing a crude backup of a folder and didn’t realize it was in there. My domain names were fine but I had to find a new host
However they almost always have a “fuck you” clause written in lawyer-ese that pretty much says they can cancel you for any reason and they may or may not give you time to backup your stuff or not
The lesson is not have your website name registration and hosting with the same company.
With a registration, you can fire up the website with another hosting company in an hour or so
I’m surprised tech people would be so careless with their stated reasons. It’s very easy to look almost any of this kind of thing up to see they’re lying.
Squarespace is not tech people. They purchased an application and sell that service to people. They are marketing people not tech people.
Tech people just do the programming jobs, add features, fix bugs, create applications. We are creators of things, it's not up to us what and how it is used. It's our duty to make applications versatile, not to impose our personal preferences. We create default values for options, something like recommended settings, but the point is to be able to change them without changing the code itself. So we add whitelists and blacklists, and add options for banning in various ways like "trends", without being aware of the implications.
Hell, I could create a system to automatically moderate comments with a learning AI, necessitating some moderation at the beginning as input and then working on its own. It could be used to filter out actual nasty comments or to create a powerful language control tool for propagandistic purposes.
You can use guns to shoot bad guys or good guys - it's up to its user. And programmers are overwhelmingly not the users. Bosses make decisions.
If I had time and money, I could create a revolutionary free speech platform meant for having the best possible ways to debate - it would be primarily a challenge for UI - how to display it best. On Reddit, here, and regular forums you have the issue of conversations getting too messy too quickly, and only notifying a single person with every reply. It's a challenging problem to solve, but there are things that can be tried.
Could someone give this guy a million dollars please that sounds keen.
The person on staff that did it at least knows enough that anyone could just look it up to prove it wasn’t taken down for expiring.
“Oh my bad! I must have misread the year.” is what the contractor who did this on purpose will say.
Something along the lines of...malpractice.
There’s nothing to sue over, web host canceled their hosting, but can’t cancel domains or anything like that due to ICANN
Domain name is still the property of the doctors
Yeah they have a list of prohibited activities that vary from host to host, though there are some usuals — like porn accounts have to be a higher tier of service if they’re allowed at all.
Hell I once had hosting canceled years ago because I accidentally uploaded a porn video to a non public section of my site because I was doing a crude backup of a folder and didn’t realize it was in there. My domain names were fine but I had to find a new host
However they almost always have a “fuck you” clause written in lawyer-ese that pretty much says they can cancel you for any reason and they may or may not give you time to backup your stuff or not