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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

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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.
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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.
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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?
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