10 votes

Social media platform Parler is back online with new hosting

4 comments

  1. [4]
    teaearlgraycold
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    Don’t you guys hate it when your whois details accidentally get copied to your customer’s domain? What I’m wondering is will this be a cat and mouse game, or will it be a slow hardening process?...

    CloudRoute and SkySilk seem to be connected in some way and may ultimately be part of the same company. CloudRoute CEO Andre Temnorod denied or downplayed any connection, telling The New York Times that "SkySilk is our customer, and Parler is SkySilk's customer." However, Whois information lists Temnorod's email and other CloudRoute email addresses as contacts for SkySilk.

    Don’t you guys hate it when your whois details accidentally get copied to your customer’s domain?

    What I’m wondering is will this be a cat and mouse game, or will it be a slow hardening process? Weak links in Parler’s tech chain will get threatened or will cut themselves from Parler. Eventually they could be much stronger than before.

    That is, unless the government can find Parler guilty of crimes. If they need to go to the darkweb I’m sure the extra barrier to entry will kill the site.

    9 votes
    1. [3]
      babypuncher
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      I think being banned from the major app stores has already relegated them to obscurity. These things only spread to the masses when they are made easily accessible. Any inconveniences or barriers...

      I think being banned from the major app stores has already relegated them to obscurity. These things only spread to the masses when they are made easily accessible. Any inconveniences or barriers to entry can do a tremendous amount of good by limiting new users to the sufficiently motivated.

      They will never go away entirely, but that shouldn't be the goal. People are free to be assholes on the internet. The rest of us shouldn't be required to provide a platform for their garbage.

      12 votes
      1. [2]
        Toric
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        Yup, even if no cloud providers decide to host them, they can always invest in their own infrastructure. I HIGHLY doubt the DNS system itself will turn against them.

        Yup, even if no cloud providers decide to host them, they can always invest in their own infrastructure. I HIGHLY doubt the DNS system itself will turn against them.

        8 votes
        1. aditya
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          If it did, I’d be very very concerned. Edit: I’m not even close to a conservative, I’m not even American

          If it did, I’d be very very concerned. Edit: I’m not even close to a conservative, I’m not even American

          6 votes