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You said “this kind of censorship”, but in the context of this topic, it’s not ISPs doing this censoring. I don’t think NN would have done anything to address the coordinated deplatforming of a Twitter competitor, right?

Sure ISP’s could be the bad guy here too, though.
What pictures would you select to make this sentence understandable by people who have not seen your icons before:

Tomorrow I am going to atone for my sins.

I'm also looking at the home screen of my iPhone, created by the world leader in icon promulgation. Every one has words under it saying what it is. After all, who would connect a 5 pointed star with "iTunes Store"? How about a squiggly line with "Stocks"? How about 3 red stripes with "News"? Nobody. And Apple knows it.

The only icon that makes sense is a black square with "Uber" written on it.
Since then the ACLU has taken a hard leftward swing. If you follow them on social media, you’ll see they make lots of partisan posts, are no longer very professionally neutral in how they talk about things, and have a selection bias in terms of what they focus on and talk about. I doubt today’s ACLU would make the same statement, if only because most of their social media following seems to be against the free speech principles that are fundamental to the US. I feel this change primarily happened between 2015 and now. It’s why I stopped supporting them after years - there are better organizations for supporting those principles, like FIRE.
Personally I know of 5 mobile devices which have been bricked by this security feature and I do not know anyone who has had anything actually stolen (including things like wallets with no protection).

Also to note that there is no proving ownership to get around the lock. You either have the password to log in or it’s bricked. You can go to apple or google with proof of purchase and they will not / can not unlock the device.
I love this article. It hits home as well. I stopped posting a long time ago on sites that tie my posts to my identity (thank you HN for at least not being overt).

I hope that we as a society can adopt to this understanding. It may mean normalizing things that are now considered to be deviant. The question is where we draw boundaries. And the reality is that the second we start drawing any boundaries, is the second we fall back into the social cooling trap.

It is like a giant compressor operating on the entire planet's behavior.
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Re: formatting, I strongly suggest using markdown's [reference link syntax], which is much more readable when rendered as plain text.

[reference link syntax]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics
Exactly. There's nothing stopping Parler from just like.. setting up their own servers. This whole "We can't let the tech giants control speech this way" is pure nonsense until ISPs start blocking such internet traffic.
I'm not sure how you're reading that - it's clearly showing they were trying to delete everything but the backlog was outpacing their ability to moderate. As I said, moderation is hard.
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If Linux with PREEMPT_RT is unsuitable, all the modern x86 CPUs with system management mode interrupts are even worse. Because those are the worst and primary cause for that Linux being insufficient for control loops in the 10's of kHz.
It is backwards compatible with the current web. It opens as a chrome fork and you can navigate to any ole http(s):// URL with it. Where it gets magical though is when you add a DNS record to your domain that lists the dat:// protocol address for your site.

Basically, you can add P2P support to your site with graceful degradation back to a centralized server.

It's brilliant.
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They had 7 weeks to clean up their act. I'm not sure that qualifies as "oops too slow".

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...
>The tie with slavery is all about the economy

Yes except you're getting cause and effect reversed. The fundamental building block of the Southern economy was slavery, as your own quoted excerpts explain. Take that away and their economy would collapse, along with the extremely comfortable plantation lifestyles of the Southern elite. Their economy depended on slavery, not the other way around. When slavery was threatened, they went to war to preserve it.

I'm from the South, we were taught in high-school that it was about economics, but later in life I realized that, for the South, slavery was the economy, and the root cause of the Civil War. Southerners have to be honest about that, or they'll never be able to fully move on.
Try reading any of the confederate states' articles of secession. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

GA: The prohibition of slavery in the Territories, hostility to it everywhere, the equality of the black and white races, disregard of all constitutional guarantees in its favor, were boldly proclaimed by its leaders and applauded by its followers.... We refuse to submit to that judgment, and in vindication of our refusal we offer the Constitution of our country and point to the total absence of any express power to exclude us.

MS: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery

SC: This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.

TX: We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
> Twitter and Facebook regularly ban people for violating their TOS with inappropriate content. Parler did not.

https://www.newsweek.com/parler-ted-cruz-approved-free-speec...

> Who knows if it was a friendly tip or a boat load of subpoenas under seal.

Do you have any evidence for this at all?

There are several other alternative explanations for them doing this. There is the one the Republicans put forth, which is that they're doing it to gain favor with the party that will control the House, Senate and Presidency in a few days and be prosecuting the antitrust suits against them.

And then there's the business reason, which is that they don't want a new competitor and are taking an excuse to crush it.

Also, you can tell that everything is broken when doing something anti-competitive makes it more likely for you to win an antitrust case against you.
I think these all used the older ARMv7 Exynos chips, before modems became standard in the SoC. Everything they've shipped with an ARMv8 has an onboard modem.
Sure. I think you might have a decent argument there for 1:1 messengers or email, but even then, texting spam is now a big problem.

The problem with a social service behaving that way is everyone who tried the "anything goes" approach over the last 30 years started idealistic either gave up and added some rules or became a toxic cesspool.

That makes sense to me. There are zero social environments on earth where some type of obnoxious behavior won't get you thrown out. Why would the web be all that different?

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To be clear, this is a hypothetical about idealists acting in good faith. Over the years we've also seen bad actors feign utopian motives to try and avoid responsibility for their actions, which is a different conversation entirely.
On CD-ROM?
This evidence puts into question the quality of such review

https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-user...
It's an interesting theory, and it may well be true, but I'm going to need to see studies before taking this idea seriously.
My school had British coursework. History textbooks clearly said it was about slavery.
Money, data harvesting, and advertising.

Usually the answer to your question can just be distilled down to: Money.
No but there WERE many honypot posts on Parler asking people to upload their phone recordings and identify who they were. Hundreds gave their contact info and specifically what they did during the attack.
I'm particularly excited about the prospects of setting up a peer of my dat archives on my mobile phone. It's an always on, power efficient computing device. Not ideal for speed, but seems like a great fit for a last-ditch-effort layer of redundancy when hosting on hypercore.
If they see that antenna you're going to a re-education camp.
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given that google also banned them from the app store, i’m guessing they would be banned from the cloud. not sure about azure though...

but almost every large company blacklisted them in concert
"Law enforcement made Mike Tyson all way too comfortable with punching people in the face and not getting shot for it." – Billy the Kid, apparently
Well no, what I was trying to imagine was something beyond messaging that included public, user-generated content but analogous to common-carrier status.

But perhaps there simply is an inherent problem with being a platform for user-generated content and that it requires somewhat robust moderation to avoid being cancelled, sued, or arrested.
> ISPs - Net neutrality required.

Gee...I wonder why we don't have that.

> So companies should be able to do whatever they want as long as they're not discriminatory/racist about it?

Yes, that's actually how the law works. This isn't exactly news to anyone.
Can you provide more information?
Our team is JuiceFS's launching customer. We've been using its enterprise offering since late 2016 and accumulated several hundreds TBs of data on JuiceFS along the way, it worked well.

I've wrote a blog post (in Chinese) explaining our MySQL backup practice around JuiceFS in 2018.
https://tech.xiachufang.xyz/2018-04-17/mysql-backup-practice

They provided an open source version recently.
No offense, but it sounds like you didn’t know your audience.
Nice reframing! You should definitely work in the spin department of the hegemons.

I think it's simply that free speech isn't good for business. Partially because of tarring by association with "outrageous" opinions you didn't snuff out on your totally-not-public-utility-nor-monopoly platform, but mostly because if you don't have free speech, you have controlled speech, and you need $$$omebody to do the controlling, which means money and intimacy with regulators (powaaa)
The CIA and not NASA or the USAF? Why would the CIA handle this information, or did they abscond with it from others like USSR, etc?
Section 4.3 vi) of their subscriber agreement prohibits use of the certificate to enable ‘criminal activity’.

Which might cover incitement to insurrection.
There are websites that sell illegal drugs. If those sites can find web hosting, so can a website that promotes hate speech. Actually, such sites probably already exist. Lots of them. It’s just that Parler became too popular for its own good.
It started as a browser at first, though it appears Paul and the team have stepped back from the browser for now and are focusing on the core underpinnings of the system and revamping the libs/SDKs/CLIs for Hypercore.

I believe their gameplan is to work through a few challenges this way like adding support for multi-writer archives before returning to Beaker with a bucket of gold improvements for its foundation.
There are many great varieties besides the Alphonso, that are popular in different parts of India. Examples include the Langda, the Malda and the Raspuri varieties. Quite different from one another and each with its own devoted following.

I found Mexican mangoes to be a pale imitation of the Indian varieties. Surprisingly, the best mangoes I have tasted in America were from two huge trees in the backyard of a place we were renting in Hawaii. The trees had shed hundreds of mangoes with hundreds more on the trees themselves, and then caretakers were only too happy to see us enjoy them. Made my Hawaii trip memorable!
If you don't mention things you don't like, they wont happen...

If you don't let anyone else mention things you don't like, they won't happen...

Doesn't work that way. If it seriously upsets you that someone mentions the existence of something you disagree with, please have a moment of self reflection about how you can choose to react differently.

There are always going to be people who disagree with you.
Latin is one of the best-documented languages. Even Google Translate can translate it with tolerable accuracy. Even picking through ye olde handwriting is a bigger challenge.
I don’t think I would call youtube content providers customers. Business partners is probably a better term.
What did you believe before reading that document?
What a great time in history to encourage more conspiracy-minded thinking.
There should be several classes of license. One to read, one to comment, one to create content, and of course one for interactions like voting up or down, or liking.

Any violation in any of the categories would be cause for revoking the license. We can't have people creating content, for example, who have read illegal content. That's the mechanic at work behind disinformation.
What a shit take. It was about slavery. Of course the north wasnt interested in war over slavery. The south WAS and they started it. If you read the individual states declarations they also state slavery and white supremacy as the overriding cause. When discussing states rights they were primarily angry at the northern states exercising their rights by refusing to return runaway slaves and by refusing to allow slaves to be returned to bondage after slaveholders brought them north for travel.

Of course you can abstract it all away by saying it was "economics" but the economics in question are the economics of slavery. The states rights are the rights as they pertain to slavery. It was slavery.
Yet, I am seeing more sites require phone numbers to send an activation code before you can even use or make an account.
They definitely should not.

(1) There is a better solution. The problem is that they are monopolies. So bust the monopolies. Require interoperability — a proven solution in other industries. A service needs to be treated as a utility — meaning large amounts of regulation — when it is a natural monopoly, meaning there’s no practical way to avoid a monopoly. That’s not the case here. Don’t use a ton of regulation where a much smaller amount will do.

(2) It doesn’t solve the problem. A social network utility still needs moderation. How would making a social network a utility make the moderation decisions better than what you’re getting now? Complicating things, in the US the first amendment means the government can’t establish laws to limit free speech, so a public utility would have to be a minimally moderated cesspool.
If that’s your logic, then clearly Facebook and Twitter are 1,000x as guilty as Parler, considering that they have hosted extremely violent speech. The genocide in Myanmar, for instance.

This is about money and power, nothing else. Facebook is “too big to fail” so clearly it will never face any consequences, while Parler is a random little site that’s easy to pick on.
It all started when they killed that damned ape.
Because aliens is a cover story for flying in each others airspace
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> Is the difference that the messages are private rather than public?

100%. Absolutely.

> We don't expect telco's to create filters or to independently moderate or to block the content of phone calls or SMS messages and basically legal mechanisms must be used to trigger any action against a subscriber. I realize that this is largely due to the legal framework of a "common carrier".

Not only do we not expect it, but the more privacy-oriented people expect it to not even be possible, and use things like end-to-end encryption that make it impossible for the carrier to know what the messages contain.
> phonetic writing fanatics

You made me laugh. But phonetic alphabet will win out again as people get sick of having no idea what the icons mean, and Steve Jobs' reality distortion field fades into history.

> you have to completely rehaul your orthography every couple of generations

I have no trouble reading books a couple hundred years old, like "Last of the Mohicans". Besides, you can correctly pronounce about 90% of English phonetically. With German it's much more.

Good luck guessing even 5% of icons correctly that you've never seen before.
Didn’t DJT have to go to a secure location at the whitehouse when protesters breached the security perimeter of the WH this summer?
I keep hoping that eventually there will be some kind of push back against identity politics, and that we will go back to more of a "live and let live" kind of attitude. Maybe people will get sick of outrage culture and the narrative will eventually shift. Social dynamics are complex, but what you need to change the attitude of the public is essentially a number of thought leaders praising a different attitude.
Oi! You got a licence for that post?!
They aren’t risking market share loss to competitors because they are ganging up together to kill their competitors.
Just didn't see it. It is such an obvious idea when you read the authors take on it. It is presented perfectly for such a short article.
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The physical CD-ROM looks like something from a bad infomercial.
> But this statement will do nothing to change their minds

On this point we disagree. I think most soldiers want to be good, loyal soldiers. DJT is Commander in Chief, and I think he has given them some seriously mixed messages of what that would entail, and may give further mixed messages in the next few days. This explicit, unambiguous statement of where a soldier's duties lie is important.
Its more waves in the ocean. like Vinge's "Zones of thought" but more "pressure differentials of st00pit" in a sea of more than 3 dimensions.

I'm waiting for magic to come back.
>I don't see how people can make this argument with a straight face. If you accept that this one company should be allowed to decide to cut off someone for ideological reasons, you tacitly accept that all companies could cut someone off for the same reason.

I'm not people. I'm just me and don't represent anyone else except myself.

As for it being "just one company," that isn't really important. It could be 10 or 100 or 1000 companies and I'd say the same thing.

And not because of the content of the political views being (or not) supported.

It has nothing to do with any of that.

If the government can force Stripe (or anyone else) to support a particular (it doesn't matter which one either) viewpoint by forcing them to associate with a person or group they don't wish to associate with, then they can force me (or you, for that matter) to do the same.

I can't and don't speak for anyone else. For me, it's about specific constitutional rights. I don't and won't support abridgement of those rights for anyone, whether I agree with them or not.

If you believe that it's just fine for persons or organizations to have their freedom of association rights abridged, then you are anti-freedom and stand in opposition to the liberties and ideals in my constitution.

And if that's true, then so be it. But don't try to pretend that your argument is anything other than an anti-liberty, anti-democratic (small d) one.
And why would you take Parler’s word for it? When your entire marketing is based on a lack of moderation and you have this insane backlog of offending content, but you look to their TOS as a source of truth and intent, you’re being disingenuous and willfully ignorant.
I looked it up on wikipedia. But it was like learning monads from wikipedia. It's a dense nest of jargon that just leaves me wondering which way is up if I spend more than a few minutes following links.
It's much worse.

They want to win at any cost, regardless of the merits of their party. There's a number of problems with that, but the most pernicious is that after you burn your own cities, you have to then cover it up.
It’s an old reference to Usenet and AOL. It used to be that many Usenet groups had problems every fall when new college students would discover Usenet after getting internet access for the first time at their university. In general this meant posts that went against the norms of many groups. It would usually straighten itself out after a few months, but in general, September was a rougher month.

Then, sometime in the mid 90’s (maybe 95?), AOL gave its users access to Usenet. This meant a steady flow of new users who didn’t adhere to norms of the newsgroups. Therefore, the Eternal September.

Same concern now as it seems like everyone is discovering Signal. I’m not sure how much I agree as signal is primarily small group chats where norms can be better enforced.
> Yeah. I see my friends sharing less and less content on FB these days.

How much of this is that we’re getting older? I find that outside thoughtfluencing and reputation building, I’ve simply become tired of sharing. Just kinda don’t care anymore.

Part of it is that there’s less and less novelty. What was new and exciting 5 years ago is mundane and boring now. Done it a million times. What felt like a huge insight, became a normal part of my worldview. Etc

To top it off I realized I simply don’t care as much about keeping in touch with people who aren’t actually part of my life.

Ultimately my time is limited and I can publish to build leads/branding or to drive vanity metrics like a monkey acting out in a cage. One of those is a good use of time.
I am from India.

can agree that there is large amount of people who are there just to game the system, and not in it for passion. This is because our country is 3rd world and there is lot of importance for social mobility, lot of interestless ppl enter the field.

But do not lose hope yet. In every college that teaches CS you will find one or two people who are actually passionate and talented. The thing is you dont find these people in bloated-management shitty consultancies, but either in foreign companies or sometimes in startup-like Indian companies.
> So much of this liberal support for the attempted destruction of Parler is based in utter ignorance about that platform, and about basic principles of free speech. I’d be very surprised if more than a tiny fraction of liberals cheering Parler’s removal from the internet have ever used the platform or know anything about it other than the snippets they have been shown by those seeking to justify its destruction and to depict it as some neo-Nazi stronghold.

This is a serious question: Was there a bastion of nuanced discussion and debate occurring on Parler? Almost everything I've ever seen has been amplification of disinformation. I am sure some nuanced discussions were there, but Glenn it making it seem like it was a minor part of the service or perhaps mirrored how common it might be on Twitter and other platforms? Is that what he's trying to imply?
Southern India, it is not available in the North. Most North Indians who haven't travelled have no idea it exists.
It's hard to read but it seems to just be saying "Can you please track down the message and give it to him because he wont stop asking for it and it's getting annoying" ?

Can't really see any evidence of a coverup there.