Posted on 01/09/2021 6:26:58 PM PST by janetjanet998
Edited on 01/10/2021 2:52:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
How about before Free Republic?
What will you do when they take “us” down?
The Amazon mobile app has disabled the cancellation feature on my tablet. Wow!
How long before they come after FR?
You might get a good jury. Or Amazon just might decide that the bad publicity isn’t worth it.
“I belonged to Facebook for about two hours.”
Me too. I have been writing software since the ‘70s. When I saw what kind of connections they were making to people I had not even thought of for 25 years, all the while pleading with me to upload my address book, my skin just crawled. I cancelled it immediately. I never got a twitter account, or instagram, or any of the others. I also do not carry a smartphone.I have an old flip phone I don’t carry half the time. I do have a tom-tom gps with lifetime updates, but mostly I get that out to just to do the updates.
Young people these days spend their lives living in a panopticon, oblivious to it. I cannot imagine what it will be like when they get to my age. I suppose it will be glorious or hellish, but I doubt it will be anywhere in between.
“From the opening comment; what exactly is meant by “building bare metal products”?
Bare metal means you start with physical, onsite hardware -servers, storage, networking, etc. So all the equipment to run your internet-based services are on premise, under your control. It’s old school 2000s computing. None of the (cheaper, more redundant, more reliable) ‘cloud’ services.
Hubby only has a flip phone — but it seems to be very “Android-ish” in its format with things like text messaging. It’s not like older ones.
Judging by your post it seems that smart phones make you much more vulnerable to being compromised. We have considered going to Consumer Cellular or similar for basic flip phones.
Tor Project | Anonymity Online
Believe it or not, Facebook has a tor portal. FR, Parler, Gab and the rest should consider doing the same.
I wonder how many read that never understanding the inside IT meaning.
Since Amazon’s AWS violated the terms of service for Parler’s billion dollar program, they certainly don’t have the personal or professional maturity not to hurt other billion dollar programs.
Amazon’s AWS had a very juicy Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) contract years back. They started the government using cloud services. Since then, though, they have proven to be unreliable to the point DoD is looking at Microsoft’s Azure as the answer. AWS has failed to mature further and is so damned liberal they throw temper tantrums about everything. They are no longer a trusted partner to the DoD. With this gross violation of civil rights and terms of service, they just finished off that reputation. We did warn them, but like the liberal children they are, they didn’t listen.
BTW, Jeff Bezos was well informed of this Parler decision and supported it.
I was able to view Gag just fine, using Chrome, just now. I at present have no need for a social media account (do not have Facebook, Twitter, etc.) so I did not both trying to join. I merely viewed for a moment the top of the page that came up, scrolled down a bit (too fast to read, slow enough to see that what looked like typical content was coming up) then closed the page and cleared browsing data as usual.
Of course Wikipedia makes Gab sound like the users are all a bunch of neo-Nazis, KKK’ers, etc.
I re-activated my Twitter account and then deactivated again. I don’t know why, but it made me feel better.
Whups, that should have been “never joined anything beyond various forums, most non-political.”
I backed up past my edit & posted too soon.)(rolling eyes!)
I bet it felt cathartic.
Don’t forget to get off gmail or hotmail or any other big tech mail. It’s easy to do and inexpensive.
“Judging by your post it seems that smart phones make you much more vulnerable to being compromised.”
Well, yes, they really do track you wherever you go. Look up ‘geofencing’. The police can get a warrant to make google disclose who was in a defined area at a particular time. The information is anonymized, so instead of names, they give them numbers. If they can convince a judge that number so and so is a person of interest in a crime, then they can get another warrant to make Google disclose who you are. This has all been written up in the paper here in Raleigh. I forget exactly how long Google says that retain this information, but it is some months. Personally, I would assume they keep it forever.
Anyone else notice how COMPLETELY SILENT our so-called Republican “leaders” are about this unbelievable assault on free speech?
The only posts I’ve seen so far are from Gaetz and Cruz.
Not even Hawley (who’s pretty much leading the charge on Big Tech censorship) has said a word - that I can find, at least.
What the..is going on?!
Cancelled my Amazon Prime about 20 minutes ago as I read the first story on Parler.
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