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Now 2021 is shaping up to be one interesting year... thoughts folks?
by sethgoodluck 6y ago
Now 2021 is shaping up to be one interesting year... thoughts folks?
- Triv888 6y agoFree speech, from Russia...
- sethgoodluck 6y agoAnd my-oh-my the political leverage is colossal
- awb 6y agoRussia isn’t pro free speech, they’re pro internal US conflict.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoThey also sheltered Snowden... Not sure what to think
- gedy 6y agoThe irony
- threeseed 6y agoFree speech, so long as it agrees with the Putin government. Otherwise you will likely end up poisoned like Navalny or happen to fall off a balcony like so many Russian journalists.
- im3w1l 6y agoIt's pretty amusing. To quote an (in)famous xkcd. The private companies told the Right they were assholes and showed them the door. And now Russia is stretching out a hand and saying: you are welcome in my house. And of course the Left is upset. The Right were supposed to become friendless losers with imaginary friends[0]! Not befriend other people! That's cheating! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817605
- Gibbon1 6y agoThe rights new friends seem to have a tenancy to poison their political opponents with nerve agents.
- anewaccount2021 6y agothe US is becoming a risky place to host your infra. you can be deplatformed on a whim, as a result of petty internal ideological resistance anywhere in your supply chain. no infrastructure partner will go to bat for you, they'd rather forgo your money in favor of passing a regime's purity test you might also be subject to sweeping legislation that allows the US govt to act against you if you are not politically aligned if this continues, the US will be an unfavorable jurisdiction for infrastructure. its just easier to find a less charged environment where you have clarity
- klmadfejno 6y agoSomehow I think 99.9% of businesses will manage without giving it a second thought.
- zepto 6y agoWhich regime would you recommend?
- threeseed 6y agoAnywhere with a strong, independent legal system e.g. EU, Canada, Australia, Japan etc would never tolerate an app like Parler being used to incite an insurrection. Any countries without one e.g. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia would also not tolerate it as it could equally be used to incite an insurrection. So very curious where you think this "safe" place is in the world.
- dc2k08 6y agoTwitter and facebook tolerate the use of their apps to set up autonomous zones within american cities and incite users to riot, loot, commit arson and murder cops so why doesn't parler just use a similar hosting infrastructure to whatever they use?
- alphabettsy 6y agoI’ll pretend this is an argument in good faith and point out the explicit intent in the messages to commit crimes is the point. Organization of a protest that draws 100,000 where a small number commit crimes is much different than rallying 100,000 with the stated purpose of committing crimes.
- secretcombos 6y agoIn 2021, western democracy will continue to be attacked from within and from the outside. Especially with the US in pandemonium, Putin and the CCP will no doubt exploit the opportunity. Then there is the thought-policing of big tech and social media. 2021 is definitely shaping up to be a crucial year, a time when people need to wake up, get informed and defend freedom while they still have it.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoYou lost me at "thought-policing of big tech".
- King-Aaron 6y agoAmerican Nazis hosted by Communists Welcome to 2021