Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by cheeze on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:18PM
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Regardless of my/your thoughts on Parler, godspeed to those engineers. Assuming a majority of Parler infra is hosted on AWS, and it wasn't built to be multi-cloud, moving hosting providers in ~36 hours seems like a herculean task.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by ashtonkem on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:40PM
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They knew what they signed up for. Maybe they didn't know that a coup would end up planned on their app in the public, but it was nakedly obvious to everyone that Parler was going to go the route of Gab or Voat. Those who didn't jump ship a long time ago decided that that wasn't a problem for them.
Their bigger issue is going to be the fact that their resumes will be radioactive going forward. Reputation harm is actually a real thing; if Uber engineers struggled to get new jobs after all those bombshells years ago, these people's careers are probably de-facto over.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by petermcneeley on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:45PM
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Reminds me of that clerks episode: https://youtu.be/iQdDRrcAOjA?t=79
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by cableshaft on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:18PM
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Was expecting to see a clip of Dante and Randal climbing up the building of Leonardo Leonardo. Your clip makes more sense.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by logicchains on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:25PM
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>these people's careers are probably de-facto over.
You make a very bold assumption that none of the ~75 million Trump voters in the US are in tech hiring positions.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by adolph on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:43PM
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Iām sure Alibaba, Tencent or Yandex is ready with a turnkey lift and shift solution.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by Miner49er on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:59PM
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I would be surprised to see Alibaba or Tencent host them. Are they known to host "extremist" content?
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by Atlas-Marbles on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:02AM
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The Parler user base is pro-Trump and anti-China, they wouldn't support those hosts. Reddit already gets a lot of flak from their users because Tencent is a major investor.