How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by offby37years on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:44PM (#25755711)

DDoSing is already an illegal cybercrime in the US. A DDoS attack could be classified as a federal criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)[1].

Under Damaging a Computer, 1030(a)(5)

> The provision may also be used to prosecute the perpetrators of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which occur, for example, when an attacker overwhelms a server’s ability to process legitimate requests by overloading the server with a flood of illegitimate traffic.

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R46536.pdf

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by baobabKoodaa on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:30PM (#25756213)

The question remains unanswered: should the cloud hosting company wait for a court judgement that deems the DDOSer guilty of a crime?

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by nytgop77 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:48PM (#25757798)

It should call the police.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by baobabKoodaa on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:17AM (#25760666)

Ok, sure, it should call the police, and then what? Should it wait for the police to investigate and the court to judge?

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by bananabreakfast on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:19PM (#25756102)

Facilitating terrorism is also a crime and a far more serious one

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by nine_k on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:18PM (#25756687)

There's the catch: it takes a court ruling to declare someone a criminal.

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