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There are ToS at Colo facilities also, renting rack space isn't foolproof either.
by SteveNuts 6y ago
There are ToS at Colo facilities also, renting rack space isn't foolproof either.
- throwaway2048 6y agoSites like stormfront manage to stay up, despite being way older and arguably more extreme.
- SteveNuts 6y agoIf there's ever a "capitol riot" sized event linked back to those sites, their BCPs will be put to the test as well.
- throwaway2048 6y agoplenty of far right European terrorist attacks have been linked directly to stormfront, including the attack by Anders Breivik.
- walrus01 6y agothere's plenty of big colocation and hosting companies in Russia.
- coolspot 6y agoWhich will not provide you service unless you give them Russian phone number and scan of your Russian passport.
- edoceo 6y agoParler was backed by very deep pockets with existing international connections. They could afford to purchase the necessary Russian friends to make this happen.
- that_guy_iain 6y agoThe CEO is married to a Russian so that isn't a problem.
- madeofpalk 6y agoAgain, plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out. Parler just didn’t care.
- mike_d 6y agoFor a few thousand dollars a month I operate my own servers in n>1 physical locations with different companies and different transit providers. I figured it out. Pirate Bay figured it out. Any company that genuinely cares about eliminating SPOFs has figured it out.
- zarkov99 6y agoPerhaps Parler did not realize that being aligned with conservatism was grounds for deplatforming. I am sure they will learn as will the whole world.
- ggggtez 6y agoI'm not sure I like the world where conservatives are making bed-fellows with pedophiles and ISIS. Over this last week, I've talked to people who have un-ironically argued that companies should not be allowed to moderate content... even if that content is illegal! It's like a whole section of the population is just learning for the first time that the internet is real life and it's not the wild-west it was in the 90s.
- grahamburger 6y agoLet's hope so! The more we diversify our social media consumption as a society the better off we all are. Well, other than Jack and Mark.
- szhu 6y agoHonestly, I think they'd be happier too. They'd have less money and power, sure, but they'd also get less death threats, and a lot of the world (including world leaders) would hate them a little less. I don't think they would care if Facebook and Twitter were each 1/10 the size of what they are today -- they'd still be billionaires and the companies would still be mind-boggling huge. They only care that the companies are much larger than competitors.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoI didn't read Dorsey's actual tweets, but here's what the Guardian said about them: >Dorsey underscored in his tweets a need for a new “open decentralized standard for social media”. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/trump-twitter-ban-jack-dorsey-chief-executive https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/trump-twi...
- that_guy_iain 6y agohttps://prq.se/?p=colo https://prq.se/?p=colo Famous for starting the pirate bay, they're still in action and pretty much specifically provide freedom of speech hosting. I think it plays in the game the Parler investors wanted to play that they got shutdown and can't get back online. Fuels the "we've been censored" angle.