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You've been reading too many old pulp-fiction stories about the Cold War. In the USA, if you can find a willing and gullible publisher [0], you can write a book
by myWindoonn 6y ago
You've been reading too many old pulp-fiction stories about the Cold War. In the USA, if you can find a willing and gullible publisher [0], you can write a book about just about anything. The actual things that you can't publish [1] are very specific: You can publish a recipe for how to refine uranium, for example, just not in enough detail to allow anybody with a few million dollars to start their own nuclear program.
But, more importantly, we live in today. "full P2P blockchain" and "underground communities of intellectuals" are word salad; if you want to publish without restrictions, Bittorrent has been around for over a decade and is generally not blockable, and Sci-Hub is an aboveground rebellion of intellectuals against the publishers.
You're whining because a DNS registrar, and one of incredibly poor reputation for what it's worth, has chosen to stop hosting a violent hate group. But your own personal ability to publish, and indeed their ability to publish, has not been curtailed. Rather, their ability to use the resource of the DNS registrar to spread their hate is what has been removed, and that was a privilege to which they were not entitled under law.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
- electriclove 6y agohttps://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1348757722142023682?s=20 https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1348757722142023682?s=2...
- myWindoonn 6y agoAndy Ngo is free to simply publish the text of his book. It sounds like he wants money, though, and society is not compelled to pay him just because he put a lot of effort into arranging the text of his book. (Surprise: Copyright, being a regulatory and artificial right, only exists when the government is big enough to interfere in the actions of publishers. Otherwise, we'd just pirate anything of value.) Also, have you ever been to Portland? Powell's is not going to waste shelf space on books which won't sell.
- xref 6y agoNot sure what you’re trying to say? His Twitter profile links to 6 places to buy his book including Amazon
- electriclove 6y agoAntifa is threatening the store if they keep selling the book.
- xref 6y agoI hear a lot of chanting but no threats of any kind
- seneca 6y ago> has chosen to stop hosting a violent hate group First off, what exactly about AR15.com constitutes a violent hate group? Secondly, do you think despots have ever said "We are punishing these perfectly innocent people because we don't like them"? No. It's always a "violent group" or some such other emotional rhetoric.
- na85 6y ago>First off, what exactly about AR15.com constitutes a violent hate group? Certainly that would be the routine threats of physical violence against government officials.
- coolspot 6y agoCheck out r/politics
- MagnumOpus 6y agoChecked it, didn't find any comments threatening to kill politicians. (I assume it is because they moderate if a comment is reported?)
- DisjointedHunt 6y agoThis cognitive dissonance by people working in tech who should know better than supporting discriminatory censorship practices regardless of the political entity eschewing those policies is truly the most appalling thing i've noticed about the loud activists in the industry. First, Parler gets kicked off because "They host violent, imminent threats". Never mind the sheer scale of terrorist groups organizing on Facebook, Twitter and enjoying free high quality encryption thanks to Whatsapp. Are we going to kick them all out of society unless they declare fealty to the ideas of their benevolent tech overlords? Now, we have a forum of gun owners simply discussing things on a forum that they created to represent their connection through a shared love of a constitutional right. Tomorrow, will it be okay to point a finger at any individual and have the equivalent of mass economic sanctions destroy their ability to be a part of society because they disagree with the broad interpretation of "values" these tech companies arbitrarily decide? There is more power concentrated in Silicon Valley right now than all the governments of the world save for China and Authoritarian regimes. This is scary and intelligent people acting like political puppets is silly and dangerous.
- salawat 6y agoLesson to take folks: Always prominently list your IP address! Further, go static, and v6! More than enough for everyone. The solution to centralized nameservers mucking up your visibility? Kick them to the curb. Build your own net location database and share it with your users. Other tips: Prominent standing out combinations of web content. Non-DNS sites do still get indexed by search engines. Keep something unique searchable on your page, and people will always be able to find their way back. Set up a pipeline of communication to your users, and you can dynamically change what that content is in order to prevent trivial delisting by search engines.
- myWindoonn 6y agoYou have the right to say whatever you want; you have no right to demand an audience. The way that this works on the Web is that you have the right to publish whatever Web server you like, but no right to be indexed by somebody else's search engines. This is a common slight of hand from folks with your political leaning: The constitutional right to speech is conflated with the right to popularity, a narcissistic delusion. It would be lovely if the structure of the Internet did not require having an address. This seems to be something of a fundamental technical problem, though, and not one that can be fixed via strong political opinions.