You've missed one of the biggest threats: Google. Get on Proton Mail, its a great encrypted email service. Chrome is a hard one to get rid of, I'm still using it, I havent found an alt yet. Mozilla is objectively anti-Trump, and MS Edge is still based on Chromium, so Im stuck there. Epoch is a great paper that I get up here in Toronto, usually pretty good. Gab is entirely run on bare metal. TD.W runs on cloudflare. Just an fyi.
Doesn't really matter if it can be used in court. I'd be more worried about vigilante private companies getting a hold of the data and using it to deny or modify service. Many financial institutions have already proven that they will deny service to people to far to the right for them. If they have a database of ID's from verified users, who knows what they could do with that info. Or private citizens just doxxing people. Who knows really.
So they say anyways. The government would like to believe that its all these people having parties and breaking the rules that is causing COVID to spread. But Amazon is still wide open, and accounting for 72% of the local cases here. But hey, that lobby money must be pretty good.
I can definitely agree with some of those points. They definitely were a "Dan Crenshaw" type platform, but really just served as a scapegoat to avoid confronting the Sec230 issue head on. They relied 100% on AWS to host their content, which is an understandable move for a new company. But in this game, they had to have seen their own demise coming. Especially after they watched the Gab situation a few years back. My biggest issue was the usability. The system had all the hallmarks of any bad "new" social media, it tried to reinvent the wheel. The system was dumb, slow and hard to find good content. For example, TD.W is just a copy of reddit, but that's why it works so well. The content is organized and familiar to use.
I've heard that the new iOS update can in some cases brick the app, making it unuseable or not run at all. As with all devices, you should always wait to install updates. Thats just a good idea in general, and just happens to be applicable to this situation
I really can't see this as a good idea. 3rd parties are never successful, no matter how hard you try. This would mean finding new reps for every state. Impossible. 2022 is the way. Get rid of Mitch the Bitch and everything can start to fall into place. Cheney is first up on the block.