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Very childish comments so far even for HN. The simultaneous attack from Google, Apple and Amazon was unprecedented. It should not have been planned for. The Pi

Very childish comments so far even for HN. The simultaneous attack from Google, Apple and Amazon was unprecedented. It should not have been planned for. The PirateBay for instance was slowly attacked at expected places with lots of warnings over years. The security issues were meh compared to other security breaches and even then normally no one would even care a few days later. Metadata was not removed for baby users and something published but deleted was still around.... Wasn't well moderated, back to children who weren't around on all the big sites at the the beginning. Youtube, Reddit, Twitter. The fact HN thinks this is all normal, that's scary. He was fired due to a war from a section of the population who didn't want any speech from that site online. Pick your reality I guess.

throwaway19937 6y ago
> The simultaneous attack from Google, Apple and Amazon was unprecedented. It should not have been planned for. The PirateBay for instance was slowly attacked at expected places with lots of warnings over years. AWS cut off Parler's service after several months of moderation problems (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-v-amazon-web-services-inc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-...). It seems highly unlikely that they had a better relationship with either Google or Apple. > He was fired due to a war from a section of the population who didn't want any speech from that site online. Pick your reality I guess. Accountability ends at the top. Would you be happy with his performance if you were Rebekah Mercer? Replacing the CEO also makes it easier to try to build a relationship with another cloud service. Parler's CEO was lacking in at least the following areas: He didn't keep the site up - excuses don't matter when you're the CEO. He failed to keep service providers happy with Parler's content moderation. His public statements about moderation (see documents at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-amazon-web-services-inc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a... ) also made relationships with AWS, Apple, and Google much harder. The security issues didn't help with their reputation. I agree that other services have had comparable issues.

throwaway19937 6y ago

> The simultaneous attack from Google, Apple and Amazon was unprecedented. It should not have been planned for. The PirateBay for instance was slowly attacked at expected places with lots of warnings over years. AWS cut off Parler's service after several months of moderation problems (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-v-amazon-web-services-inc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-...). It seems highly unlikely that they had a better relationship with either Google or Apple. > He was fired due to a war from a section of the population who didn't want any speech from that site online. Pick your reality I guess. Accountability ends at the top. Would you be happy with his performance if you were Rebekah Mercer? Replacing the CEO also makes it easier to try to build a relationship with another cloud service. Parler's CEO was lacking in at least the following areas: He didn't keep the site up - excuses don't matter when you're the CEO. He failed to keep service providers happy with Parler's content moderation. His public statements about moderation (see documents at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-amazon-web-services-inc/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a... ) also made relationships with AWS, Apple, and Google much harder. The security issues didn't help with their reputation. I agree that other services have had comparable issues.