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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by aphextron on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:52AM (#25811069)
>"Asked by Wallace whether Apple’s booting of Parler would only serve to drive the app’s users “underground,”"

I hope it does. They can rediscover that the internet at its' core has no rules and is open to anyone willing to put in the technical effort. There's nothing stopping them from building their own platform from the ground up. However, that requires a modicum of technical skill, which by the looks of every "Parler-like" community that has been stood up, is non-existent among these people. Similar to things like ISIL, these type of people are great at taking over existing infrastructure and crowding out voices of reason, however left to their own devices, they crumble due to total technical incompetency.

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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by cosmodisk on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:02AM (#25811169)
The so called community may not have the skills, however there are plenty of people,who can see an opportunity in such a crowd, and they do have money,skills,and resources.Also, it's very dangerous to underestimate a motivated fool.
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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by aphextron on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:06AM (#25811213)
>The so called community may not have the skills, however there are plenty of people,who can see an opportunity in such a crowd, and they do have money,skills,and resources.

And I hope they do. Show everyone that Big Tech doesn't have nearly the power we all seem to think they do. But don't cry foul when you get kicked from a ready-made platform and are forced to go your own way.

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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by cosmodisk on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:50AM (#25811646)
What I do care more about is how the country that has almost anything it could wish for will find a way to stop tearing itself apart from within.
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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by notatrumper on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:54AM (#25811091)
How does skill help you get connected to the internet, if nobody is willing to connect you?
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Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside... by aphextron on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:00AM (#25811154)
>How does skill help you get connected to the internet, if nobody is willing to connect you?

It would be trivial for a group of competent engineers to set up their own physical infrastructure across multiple redundant internationally based ISPs if they had such people willing to work on this. There was a recent article about the Pirate Bay's founder chiding them for an inability to stay online [0]. If you want to fight the system, you're either gonna need to know how to do it or you're out of luck.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an7pn/pirate-bay-founder-th...

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