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richardARPANETon Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

3. Corporations and the government are MERGING in the USA.

Biden just hired a tonne of ex-big tech staff to work on tech oversight policy, lol.

richardARPANETon Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

Gab is great and will survive long into the future because users of the website pay to use it. Rather than being sold to advertisers. Value for value exchange.

Look past the religious aspect and you'll see the content on there is much less toxic than on Twitter.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

I'm waiting for you to show me all these nazis. I can show you plenty of communists, within the new US administration.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nazi

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

@gruez who is "they"?

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

Being a man of principal is not virtue signalling.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

@judge2020 I'm aware Parler is a subpar platform (compared to Gab for example). But this de-platforming BS needs to stop. It's pathetic.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

extremist = anything you don't agree with

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

Or fear of the mob. We will be using DDoS-Guard going forward to show support for those with a spine.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

What's your point?

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

I'm well aware of what speech is and is not legal under US law. Parler's TOS are inline with US law.

richardARPANETon DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler

Not quite.

> DDoS-Guard CEO Evgeniy Marchenko maintains the company has done nothing wrong, and that DDoS-Guard does indeed have a presence in Belize.

So they acted without any investigation because "uh oh, here comes the mob".

richardARPANETon Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax

Way better -> https://pypi.org/project/q/

richardARPANETon TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England

The BBC is a propaganda arm of the state, IMO they should be defunded significantly.

richardARPANETon Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

*Oracle

richardARPANETon How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome

You sound like the parrot.

"We need more than deplatforming"

"Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms."

Right from your link. Wake up.

richardARPANETon Why can't I write code inside my browser?

The author sounds like he wants to just be a web Designer. In which case he can work inside his browser, using tools such as WebFlow.

richardARPANETon Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://github.com/veemshq/veems

An open-source platform for online video .

richardARPANETon Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

This explains a lot.

richardARPANETon The threats and violence Twitter won't police

When I clicked on it, the page was full of Tweets don't fall inline with your claim, but maybe we all see a different Twitter according to "personalization" :)

richardARPANETon The threats and violence Twitter won't police

Twitter allowed "Hang Mike Pence" to Trend for more than one day recently.

When will they be removed from the App Stores?

richardARPANETon How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Did you actually read the statement from Amazon?

richardARPANETon How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Parler did remove illegal content.

Meanwhile Facebook Messenger remains the #1 way Child porn is distributed online

richardARPANETon How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Not true, and what is "hate speech"?

richardARPANETon How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

AWS agreed to host Parler on a 1 year contract.

They have just breached that contract and bowed to the mob. For those reasons they're now being sued.

richardARPANETon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://github.com/veemshq/veems

An open-source platform for online video.

(Looking for ReactJS and/or Python help! https://veems.tv/discord)

richardARPANETon Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

Zuck the PHP dev thinks he's Emperor.

richardARPANETon BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet

Author is mad he didn't buy Bitcoin sooner.

richardARPANETon CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]

Sure, but they were in his home. If he had cameras streaming to a server recording everything they would stop doing that at least. (Or if they didn't, he would at least have evidence of the criminals faces)