Posted on 01/09/2021 9:05:33 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables
Parler CEO John Matze has responded to Amazon kicking the platform off their hosting services, calling it a “coordinated attack.” On Saturday, Amazon kicked Parler off their webhosting service, meaning the platform will be offline until they find a new host.
The ban goes into effect on Sunday, effectively shutting down the platform that conservatives have flocked to since the big tech giants began banning conservatives.
In a post on Parler, Matze wrote that “Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch. We prepared for events like this by never relying on amazons proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products.”
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They don't own the connection to the Internet however, nor do they have the full Internet infrastructure required in their ownership. For example: DNS. They use their hosting provider's DNS. All their hosting provider has to do to knock FR off the air is delete their DNS entry. Disable the ports their servers are connected to works also.
You're like many other people: you don't know the in's and out's of how the internet really works, or how to knock someone off the air when they're in your data center. The only people who really do know how all this works have spent years (in my case decades) working in these kinds of environments.
Deplatforming Parler from AWS is but one of many, many ways they can be kept "off the air." Parler is in for a fight. I hope they win it, I really do.
No, not to kill competition, to stay out of Guantanamo.
>>> That is not happening (yet).
The key word here is “yet”. Winning is all about momentum and if they are smart (and they are, don’t conflate very deliberate evil with stupidity) they will try not to lose the momentum and cement the victory. Make it final.
Things will move very fast now. You will be surprised how fast and how concerted the effort will be.
All the parties had decades to prepare for this. At least some did apparently.
Clearly I do know how this works. No one is threatening to turn off DNS or refusing to provide ISP services for Parlor ( or anyone else ). Ever hear of the FCC?
I'll grant you this. If the FCC allows ISPs to refuse to connect Parlor ( or any other entity from the internet back bone ) for political reasons THEN it will be Nazi Germany all over again. WE ARE NO WHERE NEAR THAT POINT...
Fukk Bozo's cloud.
thank you for that!
I’ll check them out.
The FCC does not control DNS and has zero authority in regards to it.
I'll grant you this. If the FCC allows ISPs to refuse to connect Parlor ( or any other entity from the internet back bone ) for political reasons THEN it will be Nazi Germany all over again. WE ARE NO WHERE NEAR THAT POINT...
Respectfully, we are far closer to Fascism than you think. Members of my extended family escaped the Nazi's during WW2 and came to America in the early 1950's. They've seen this act before.
Amaz,Fb, twit, act as if they are kings. Last time a king tried to tell us what not to say got hiss as whipped real good...
Right now what is happening Amazon, a private communist company Amazon, is kicking one of their costumers, Parlor, off of their cloud for political reasons. Parlor got the "Zot".
This not end the world, yet. They will be back better for being off of a private computing center.
Pricey but committed.
:)
The only part of your statement I disagree with is “By legal means of course”.
When you have exhausted all legal means (because the courts are bought and paid for by the criminals), your only recourse is to use whatever tools are at hand.
And that usually includes violence.
Are you prepared for it?
So is ICANN threatening to stop DNS for Parlor? No. So stop scaring people.
I’m a FidoNet veteran.
Don’t cancel Prime. Order, return, rinse, repeat, for the duration. Let them cancel you.
Where is Amazon HQ?
Beijing, China.
lol.
you’re quick.
I know you are not kidding.
DUDE! We probably ran across each other then. FidoNet, OPUS, Telegard, all of it at one point or another.
Most fun I ever had was the 16 line BBS I had with 14.4kb modems on each line. Trying to keep up with expanding disk storage all the time for all the new messages that came in daily to pass across the network was a real challenge. Man, I miss those days.
Who knows, we may be going back to them soon.
My take on your little dustup is that both of you are right.
usc, you are right to be worried.
cva, you are right, it’s not that bad yet.
I would add that Biden calling any Trump supporter a ‘domestic terrorist’ tells me that the landscape will be changing. Far faster than cva thinks, but a little slower than usc thinks.
In one years time, this will be a very different America.
The only BBS name I remember is 1SG’s Canteen. But I was prolific all over upstate NY.
Once The Perverted One starts his admin and the zeal against Trump subsides and the world goes to shit, the left riots begin in earnest, Jill will not be able to handle the pressure. We are at peak Trump hysteria right now.
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