Make your own social media service, they said. Where does this end? What's the endgame?
The net result will be that this end to end encryption becomes a terror for all governments - even ones that ride to power using these tools.
This means that the pressure to add backdoors or even front doors to this kind of content will win out. I'll assume that 10 years is enough time for that?
I really cant see any solution other than embracing dystopia.
If their infrastructure is well engineered, this shouldn't make a difference. I don't have a lot of confidence in their founder though, he's always seemed in over his head.
Anyway, the government has plenty of experience handling terrorists dealing in cash. It doesn't need to be perfect.
This isn't being thought through.
So why isn't Twitter being targeted?
If the organizing purpose of Parler was incitement and insurrection, sure. But it isn't. And that means they still get 230 protections whether you like it or not.
Because Twitter moderates and removes content that breaks the law.
HN is for discussing ideas even when they do not affect us directly.
But I firmly believe in the principle of free speech and not stifling discourse.
And no, not just over Parler. But maybe over Twitter bannings. And Facebook bannings. And Parler. And deplatforming. Eventually people will build their own internet you can't control, and continue to talk. How will you feel about that? Let's say for sake of argument that that occurs, that a whole segment of society builds their own hardware infrastructure that the tech giants do not control and cannot shut down. What would you want to happen?
The government has nothing to do with it.
Even if we all lived in anarchy, free speech would still be a thing.
The world is so interconnected, and daily life depends on private companies so strongly, that if someone is disliked enough they can be made homeless, jobless and destitute.
"Spin up their own servers" is just the next step we're up to. It's by no means the last.
How deep does it go?