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> Always publish on your own platform What does "your own platform" mean? Without relying on things like Tor, I don't believe it's possible to publish anything
by tinalumfoil 9y ago
> Always publish on your own platform
What does "your own platform" mean? Without relying on things like Tor, I don't believe it's possible to publish anything without relying on some large corporation who can pull your content with a day's notice. If not Medium, it'll be AWS or Google Cloud or your domain registrar. Anyone who cares about an open web should be, at minimum, calling out those who take down content on short notice without reason.
- __s 9y agoThe source at least should not be on the platforms: I shouldn't need a web connection to work on my content
- detaro 9y agoYour own domains are orders of magnitude safer from that in general, so I think "our own domain + content in a form we can quickly mirror to another provider" qualifies as your own platform.
- Zak 9y agoDomain registrars are orders of magnitude less likely to censor content than user-generated content sites. Hosting providers vary on this issue, but they're a commodity and some do take a hard non-censorship line. I agree we should call out sites for censorship, but there's a strong case for people taking more control over their publishing.
- type0 9y ago> Hosting providers vary on this issue, but they're a commodity and some do take a hard non-censorship line. Nearlyfreespeech and Gandi comes to mind here, I'm sure there are others who try to set as clear stance about their TOS. In general for web hosting though you should research that they have good connections, don't over-provision and have competent staff.
- wolco 9y agoThe point is there are tons of cloud hosting / self hosting / hosting over tor... Do you think piratebay would have survived a medium take down if they centralized through a service like that.