#242

I did but, I didn’t know it was a $50 billion a year cash cow.

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#243

it’s extraordinary. people talk about disruptive tech, AWS was it. i don’t know what i’d do without it and i run an 18,000-item website with 120k visits a month. imagine what the big sites depend on it for. and then imagine being told you can’t use it anymore. fucking oblivion

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#244

And you know what i fucking love about all this? The right who are whining are libertarians. Oh no, are you telling me you’re now upset that capitalism’s encroachment on what feels like it should be a public service means that your options are limited by the whims of big tech? this is literally what you dreamed of you stupid, stupid bastards

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#245

Trust a website made up exclusively of reactionary people who do little to no research to be built with seemingly little to no research

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#246

The sad thing isif you asked these dummies weeks ago ‘what do you expect will happen if you walked into a federal building with a gun’ they’d probably have responded ‘get arrested/shot/put on a terrorist list’

now the UTTER DISBELIEF that they walked into a federal building with a gun and are now being arrested/shot/put on a terrorist list

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#247

being hardwired into a libertarian mindset means the core conceit of believing you’re in the special-cases club

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#248

“ You use an app (in this case, Parler). There’s a web site you can use, and apps you can download onto your phone via Apple and Google” slow down!

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#249

Heck they probably would’ve actively encouraged it - especially the getting shot part

#250

The drownedinsound.com story

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#251

is this like gifgate?

#252

Wouldn’t be at all surprised if some spooks helped build Parler. Just like the way that Interpol or Dutch police (or someone, can’t remember) shut down some Dark web marketplaces having already created (or at least taken over) the alternatives so when vendors jumped ship they got all their details.

#253

idk i feel like it’s really easy to start passing it off on the spooks when… there’s literally no surprise at all that someone has made an app for toxic opinions. 4chan has been running for forever. it really can just be ‘people are fucking shit’

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#254

Why not both?

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#255

It is specifically the requirement to verify your ID that makes me suspicious of Parler. Supposedly there’s some Mercer funding in there too

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#256

Isn’t that because when it first started they didn’t have any verification policy at all and so all the shitposters signed up as farage and Hopkins et al and managed to get blue ticks :grinning:

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#257

Using Aws to do all your devving is probably the least libertarian thing of all time

#258

Yes and no. It’s not much different to being happy with limited companies take out your trash or provide security instead of police is it?

#259

Real woodsmen burn their trash in the woods

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#260

Being in the wood and all

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#261

Although Parler claimed they were ready for this and had deliberately not used AWS specific stuff to allow them to more easily move to a new hosting situation.