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Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by dukeofdoom on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:26AM (#27050266)
Trump started his own website yesterday. Its basically a blog where you can share the post onto other platforms like facebook and twitter. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk
Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by AzzieElbab on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:52AM (#27051504)
interestingly the site runs on nucleous which in turn sits on aws
Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by dukeofdoom on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#27051553)
So is aws going to be pressured to ban him now? I think aws banned parlor before. So this is not really going to be much of barrier to deplatform Trump again. Assuming he will be running for office again.
Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by coward76 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:18PM (#27057152)
Yes and they will. Big tech and the DNC are tightly coupled. If he doesn't like it he can build his own data centers, but they can still refuse to serve him at the DDOS protection tools, the DNS servers and even the browser. Edge, Chrome and Firefox are all run by DNC cohorts. If they really wanted to unperson him nothing would stop it.
Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by rvz on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:03AM (#27059332)
> So this is not really going to be much of barrier to deplatform Trump again. Assuming he will be running for office again.

The millisecond that he officially announces that he will be running again, GoDaddy will strip the domain, AWS will terminate his account and the banks will find and block any accounts used to fund his campaign.

At that point, they will appreciate using free software, cryptocurrencies, decentralised finance (DeFi) and self-hosting your own services.

Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by rvz on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:49AM (#27050556)
> Its basically a blog where you can share the post onto other platforms like facebook and twitter.

They'll start blocking it straight away since he's part of the lost and banned. Even worse, the career activists will probably contact and pressurise GoDaddy to suspend the domain because Trump, and that's that.

Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are essentially the problem in the first place. Giving oxygen to mutants on the platform, amplifying their message to enrage, radicalise and manipulate others in these echo chambers to become somewhat emotionally unstable and believe anything they see on the internet.

With them here, it's become even easier to do this and an endless game of whack-a-mole moderation that no one wants to deal with.

Trump isn't the last to be thrown into the lost and banned, but I won't be surprised to see a higher profile official to have the same treatment.

Then I'll see how everyone reacts to it.

Re:Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now by shkkmo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#27050718)
"higher profile official"...? Higher profile than Trump was when he was banned? I don't think that's possible...