Re:Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay onli...
by jrochkind1 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:47AM
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Yes, i would and have. In my own participation in (left) political organizing, I don't believe that we can rely on corporations to make it convenient for us, and say so. To be sure, the corporations convenience/inconvenience matters. But the inconvenience of having to access the thing in a browser instead of an app??? This seems like nothing to me.
The site actually getting shut down entirely is of course a lot more significant, I see much more of a point there. It's complaining about "oh no it's just so hard to access it via a web browser instead of an app" that seems ridiculous to me -- if you are organizing against the system -- and it's pretty clear to me that's what parler was doing; I am opposed to the politics they were doing it from, but not to organizing against the system -- you should expect and prepare for attempts to suppress. If "oh no we have to access in a web browser instead of an app" is all you get, you are doing great.
The site actually getting shut down entirely is of course a lot more significant, I see much more of a point there. It's complaining about "oh no it's just so hard to access it via a web browser instead of an app" that seems ridiculous to me -- if you are organizing against the system -- and it's pretty clear to me that's what parler was doing; I am opposed to the politics they were doing it from, but not to organizing against the system -- you should expect and prepare for attempts to suppress. If "oh no we have to access in a web browser instead of an app" is all you get, you are doing great.