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Surely you can't be serious after what happened to Parler. You just can't period, short of building your own infrastructure.
by hoseja 6y ago
Surely you can't be serious after what happened to Parler. You just can't period, short of building your own infrastructure.
- midasuni 6y agoLive by the cloud, die by the cloud.
- capableweb 6y agoParler didn't go down because it's impossible to host platforms without getting taken down. Parler got taken down because they went with hosting providers who have proven time and time again they are not independent platform providers who just follow the law, they are platform providers with opinions that will act on their opinions if they feel like it in the morning. If Parler wanted, they could have gone a different route and survived without any issues.
- grey_earthling 6y agoI agree there ought to be publicly-owned infrastructure. But the infrastructure we have is privately-owned, so yeah, the owners can do what they like. We'll never get rid of greedy quasi-monopolies unless we let them do a crap job so that people demand alternatives. This is how market capitalism is supposed to work. (And similarly, we get rid of market capitalism by letting it demonstrate that it just doesn't work very well.)