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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:47PM (#25707689)
You can always use a web site so long as DNS is working and even then there are options. It's more surreal that the internet has devolved into a medium for proprietary apps designed to capture as much of people's identity as possible. Access via web empowers the end user to control what data they send and receive. You'd think these wannabe revolutionaries would get on board with it.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by ayende on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:00AM (#25711119)
If you want to kill websites, don't traget the DNS, target the certificates.

If Let's Encrypt bans a site, for example, as well as the other CAs, it is effectively dead.

But there are hundreds of CAs...

Of course, if Google says that of your CA accepts a particular site they will remove you from Chrome...

So this come back to overly centralized systems

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by anfilt on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:14AM (#25712681)
Browsers still let you load even self signed certs, they just warn you.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by saagarjha on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:15AM (#25713511)
Right, but then you are limited to the people who know how to do that, not the people who want to hear you.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by indigodaddy on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:12AM (#25711225)
They could just go plain text no?