Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ...
by thecabinet on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:32AM
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It’s impossible to avoid relying on third parties. Somebody has to lease you the DNS name; we’ve already seen that used to punish sites. Somebody has to host your server or sell you an internet connection. Moving to Tor is the only way to protect yourself from those means of punishment, at which point you’ve lost 99.99% of any audience you might’ve had. You might as well just go to a physical newsletter.
Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ...
by kanox on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:33AM
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Your ISP is also a private third party. If Microsoft rejects you why wouldn't Comcast? The 70 dollars you pay for a home connection isn't worth dealing with a twitter mob, so they'll gladly boot you.
Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ...
by superkuh on Friday August 10, 2018 @07:17AM
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Some might. But that's where this fight should be fought: keeping internet access as dumb pipe infrastructure. The solid base on which the internet rests.
As long as that's true people can always route around censorship in services provided remotely.
In terms of implementation notabug.io is a pretty cool (and simple for the user) way to do p2p + federated node discussion boards on the web. It's not perfect but this kind of thing paired with tor for domain resolution and transport could provide a communications platform as long as internet access is still uncensored.
The solution is to simply have everyone host themselves. Even a moderate home broadband connection is more than enough to serve up your personal website.
Once you start relying on third parties you've lost. That's their property, not yours. When you claim it is yours and use government violence to enforce your wishes you are doing more damage to society than what you're trying to stop.