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2021-01-15 at 3:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra Prediction? We're going to see a huge crackdown on broadly defined 'white supremacy' with an expansion to the PATRIOT act to facilitate it. We're already seeing the first steps.
Why does the state need to take action here? Industry seems happy to do it without any kind of government intervention or incentive. Unless you mean like the police are going to crack down on KKK meetings or something, but like why? What threat do they pose? Without an internet platform the far right is basically invisible in society at large (I mean even with a platform they still more or less are), but can still be trotted out now and then when a boogeyman is convenient. And while there is an eternal imperative to expand the surveillance state, you don't need to crack down on anything any significant number of people actually care about. You can target the most extreme group you can dress up to be in some way a threat. Hell, Bush managed to spy on americans at massive new scales by leveraging fear of people who live in caves on a different continent -
2021-01-15 at 3:21 AM UTCHeck, they could use Bigfoot, or Lizard People, if they really wanted to.
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2021-01-15 at 4:13 AM UTCNow that I think about it Turnips first two years held ambitious domestic plans too. Repealing ACA and building a dumbass wall. Both would have been objectively worse for America had they followed through and theoretically they had the votes to make it happen but couldn't pull the trigger. Thank the ineptitude of bureaucracy and the process of checking and balancing yoself left ye wreck yoself for preventing the poorest from losing health care coverage and a boondoggle gets built at the border and messes with the gulf to keep Pedro and a his donkey carrying weed in knapsacks from crossing the Rio Grande.
They need every Democrat vote to get anything through and just one Bernie or Joe Mancin who's got a slightly different agenda to fuck it up. I don't think anyone should be worried. Really no president should have 2 terms, thats literally a feifdom -
2021-01-15 at 4:15 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Why does the state need to take action here? Industry seems happy to do it without any kind of government intervention or incentive. Unless you mean like the police are going to crack down on KKK meetings or something, but like why? What threat do they pose? Without an internet platform the far right is basically invisible in society at large (I mean even with a platform they still more or less are), but can still be trotted out now and then when a boogeyman is convenient. And while there is an eternal imperative to expand the surveillance state, you don't need to crack down on anything any significant number of people actually care about. You can target the most extreme group you can dress up to be in some way a threat. Hell, Bush managed to spy on americans at massive new scales by leveraging fear of people who live in caves on a different continent
that assumes that deplatforming them and chilling their discourse is as far as it'll go. so long as they're able to think wrong they're still a threat, even fragmented, especially armed. -
2021-01-15 at 4:16 AM UTConly so called truth in life is death. all the rest of the shit is a even bigger joke. you're welcome
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2021-01-15 at 4:24 AM UTCI'll domestically terrorise you
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2021-01-15 at 4:28 AM UTCgo ahead. i'll just scream like jamie lee curtis in the halloween's right in your ears for hours if not days...
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2021-01-15 at 4:32 AM UTCremember when trump made a corporate tax cut and a smaller middle class cut that vanishes after 10 years and called it altogether a "middle class tax cut?" What a 19 dimensional chess playerThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-15 at 2:56 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Ehh, parler got shoah'd from AWS, and AWS is big and anti-competitive and monopolistic and all its direct competitors are just as evil BUT there are still plenty of independent, non-lockin-y hosting options in the world today. Like physical servers (not AWS style "cloud" bullshit) are thoroughly commoditized, especially at the low end. If Parler hadn't hitched itself to AWS it would not be a tremendous task to switch. Hell, NiS has used the same host for years but they changed their pricing structure recently so I'm probably going to have to move to another provider, it's probably a weekend worth of work. If it was something I expected to happen more often it would be pretty easy to automate most of it.
Sure, investment doesn't work like this, but even with payments or advertising, you can find partners who will work with you even if you represent something legal but highly controversial. They'll gouge you for the pleasure of working with them, but some people think tshirt hell cum jokes on your site is better than paying money for things so it's not like it's undoable.
lanny, is it not possible to host NIS on your home computer provided you can leave it running 24/7? I dont understand why a big, powerful pricey server is needed in 2020 just to serve tiny kilobytes of web pages to a hundred users. -
2021-01-15 at 3:40 PM UTChttps://linktr.ee/kagbabe?fbclid=IwAR09d4C0OzvoSfAMMV6hwiHna_L79p93lk5_9eqW8q66RC8nmHa_jPKgBL0
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2021-01-15 at 6:13 PM UTC
Originally posted by Kev lanny, is it not possible to host NIS on your home computer provided you can leave it running 24/7? I dont understand why a big, powerful pricey server is needed in 2020 just to serve tiny kilobytes of web pages to a hundred users.
The servers aren't big or pricy. I could run NiS off a home server, but what you're really paying for in this situation is the network connection. You tack a lot of latency on running on a home connection, I'm very much not well positioned geographically to be serving content mostly to americans, and a lot of ISPs aren't happy about you running services off home computers. Plus it's kinda just hodunk to be running out of your closet. I'd end up accidentally dropping something on my server and I'd have to schedule down time when I move and would get unscheduled downtime when there was a hurricane and I lost power. It's just really not how you want to be operating a public webservice.
Originally posted by aldra that assumes that deplatforming them and chilling their discourse is as far as it'll go. so long as they're able to think wrong they're still a threat, even fragmented, especially armed.
Are they a threat? What are they going to do fragmented and basically non-visible? Shoot up schools and tie nooses around gay actors' necks? That sounds more advantageous than threatening to anyone with meaningful political power. The fringe right are useful idiots to the left, who would want to get rid of them? -
2021-01-16 at 3:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny The servers aren't big or pricy. I could run NiS off a home server, but what you're really paying for in this situation is the network connection. You tack a lot of latency on running on a home connection, I'm very much not well positioned geographically to be serving content mostly to americans, and a lot of ISPs aren't happy about you running services off home computers. Plus it's kinda just hodunk to be running out of your closet. I'd end up accidentally dropping something on my server and I'd have to schedule down time when I move and would get unscheduled downtime when there was a hurricane and I lost power. It's just really not how you want to be operating a public webservice.
I understand, but the part about ISPs arbitrarily telling you what you can and cant do with the connection YOU PAID FOR is complete bullshit. if you pay your bill and respect the monthly bandwidth limit then they have no right to tell you what to do with it.
I was just wondering about the feasibility of running a site with a home computer, i am glad it is finally realistic. -
2021-01-17 at 8:02 AM UTC
