Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v...
by courtf on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:53PM
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These comments are hilarious, because people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web. The traffic parler generates for AWS is a rounding error.
It's like complaining about shutting down the old chuck e cheese on the interstate.
Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v...
by bigwavedave on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:57PM
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> people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web.
Slightly off topic: This presents an interesting thought exercise- how would that stat be calculated? Does a dev with a github repo, Twitter account, and active account on a discord server have more or less of a presence on the web than a retiree with a Facebook account, two yahoos, and a google profile that frequently comments on the youtube videos they binge watch daily?
Not disputing, just musing.
Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v...
by kristofferR on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:21AM
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Alexa is one way. TheDonald is the 419th most popular website in America for example.
AWS is reportedly considering banning Parler. If this trend continues we'll soon have a completely balkanized internet where everyone lives in their own bubble and is banned from posting their viewpoints in the opposite bubble.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...