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A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would

7 points by amanzi 6y ago

amanzi 6y ago
This article is full of gold... "In fact, there’d been no conspiracy to take down the sites; they’d crashed because of a technical glitch with VanwaTech, a tiny company in Vancouver, Wash., that they rely on for various kinds of network infrastructure. They went back online with a simple server reset about an hour later, after the proprietor, 23-year-old Nick Lim, woke up from a nap at his mom’s condo." And... "He says[...] that “we are one foot away from 1984.” After a moment, though, he offers a sizable qualifier: “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book.
great_reversal 6y ago
tldr; Bloomberg goes after young entrepreneur for catering to businesses previously turned away by the likes of AWS, Cloudflare, etc due to socially unethical (yet still legal) behaviour. Young entrepreneur doesn't care who his clients are, believing in free speech to the full extent of the law. Money is money.
h2odragon 6y ago
Host those unwelcome elsewhere is noble (I'm a free speech absolutist). Its hard when they're as eager to censor others as they are sure they're not censorable themselves; which was what I found. The crispy Christians didn't want to share a host with the kinky nudists who didnt want to share a host with the anarchist bomb chuckers who didnt want to share a host with the wacky sovereign citizens (who had much better improvised arms info anyway). And everybody working for a cause seems to think that others should also feel honored to donate their time and effort to that cause; instead of actually paying their bills.
- Arnt 6y ago
  Do you have any references for this? Fine reading for a day of procrastination...
  - h2odragon 6y ago
    I've entertained some people with rants about that period; but when i try to write it the bitterness becomes too concentrated. I got to do some Good but trusted the wrong people and it cost more than i shoulda spent.

7 points by amanzi 6y ago

This article is full of gold... "In fact, there’d been no conspiracy to take down the sites; they’d crashed because of a technical glitch with VanwaTech, a tiny company in Vancouver, Wash., that they rely on for various kinds of network infrastructure. They went back online with a simple server reset about an hour later, after the proprietor, 23-year-old Nick Lim, woke up from a nap at his mom’s condo." And... "He says[...] that “we are one foot away from 1984.” After a moment, though, he offers a sizable qualifier: “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book.

great_reversal 6y ago

tldr; Bloomberg goes after young entrepreneur for catering to businesses previously turned away by the likes of AWS, Cloudflare, etc due to socially unethical (yet still legal) behaviour. Young entrepreneur doesn't care who his clients are, believing in free speech to the full extent of the law. Money is money.

h2odragon 6y ago

Host those unwelcome elsewhere is noble (I'm a free speech absolutist). Its hard when they're as eager to censor others as they are sure they're not censorable themselves; which was what I found. The crispy Christians didn't want to share a host with the kinky nudists who didnt want to share a host with the anarchist bomb chuckers who didnt want to share a host with the wacky sovereign citizens (who had much better improvised arms info anyway). And everybody working for a cause seems to think that others should also feel honored to donate their time and effort to that cause; instead of actually paying their bills.

Arnt 6y ago
Do you have any references for this? Fine reading for a day of procrastination...
- h2odragon 6y ago
  I've entertained some people with rants about that period; but when i try to write it the bitterness becomes too concentrated. I got to do some Good but trusted the wrong people and it cost more than i shoulda spent.