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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by EGreg on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:01AM (#26036382)
Yes, we keep saying this. But the alternative is right in front of us... it is the open Web and related technologies.

If someone was hosting a website outside of Pakistan, it would be much harder to take down than just petitioning Google or Apple.

Wordpress powers 40% of all such websites. But for Web 2.0 where are the open source alternatives? Discourse? We need something that can handle chatrooms, videoconferencing and more, and can be hosted anywhere.

All around the world, we need such web based tools.

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by sofixa on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:10AM (#26037120)
> someone was hosting a website outside of Pakistan, it would be much harder to take down than just petitioning Google or Apple

ISPs are still in Pakistan, so if the country wants, there are a myriad of ways to block a website. Most are preventable, but for the majority of people the site will be effectively blocked.

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by EGreg on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:19AM (#26037220)
Okay so replace DNS with DHT, and have people use Tor or Beaker browsers with Dat or MaidSAFE
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