This all means Americans can’t only wait around for legislative “fixes.” So it’s up to us, as individuals and American citizens, to do what we’ve always done when faced with an existential threat to our way of life: band together, build, and fight.
From article: That starts with building our own backbone of the internet: data centers, servers, and cloud hosting services. In other words, the only way remaining to truly protect freedom of expression and, in turn, our democracy, is by building free and open internet whose elements, from top to bottom, are immune to external forces.
The problem is the same thing that happened to Parler can happen to Gab from the article: Big Tech has suggested, without irony, that they start competitors. “You’re tired of Twitter? Build your own Twitter.” Of course, Parler attempted that. The moment that would-be-alternative started picking up steam, Apple, Google, and Amazon snuffed it out. (And Cicilline was MIA.)
While I don’t remember much about the subject, when all of the paler stuff went down, I tried to do some further investigating on who actually owns the internet itself. I do remember seeing articles about either a company or an organization that does actually own it or control it. I tried to do some further digging on the subject but didn’t get too far.
I’ll see if I can find those articles again and post them for everyone. Maybe we can get some help in figuring something else out.
Gab owns their own servers and they aren't in the USA. They're going through some growing pains but they're an awesome site. Andrew Torba is based af and a Christian...
From article: To be sure, the solution isn’t building an alternative to Google or to a social media platform. It’s much more revolutionary than that. It’s much more American, too. It’s building from scratch to battle back against overwhelming odds. Our task is to foster the very infrastructure upon which a new search engine or a new social media platform could be entirely safe from deplatforming.
That starts with building our own backbone of the internet: data centers, servers, and cloud hosting services. In other words, the only way remaining to truly protect freedom of expression and, in turn, our democracy, is by building free and open internet whose elements, from top to bottom, are immune to external forces.
Congress can huff and puff about Big Tech. But in the meantime, conservatives – and all others who prize American exceptionalism – should invest in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, ingenuity, and good-old-fashioned gutsiness.
"Twitter booted the president of the United States of America. Lo and behold, it continues to provide a soapbox to Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, whose regime is a state sponsor of terror."
This all means Americans can’t only wait around for legislative “fixes.” So it’s up to us, as individuals and American citizens, to do what we’ve always done when faced with an existential threat to our way of life: band together, build, and fight.
What are the basic building blocks for such a thing?
From article: That starts with building our own backbone of the internet: data centers, servers, and cloud hosting services. In other words, the only way remaining to truly protect freedom of expression and, in turn, our democracy, is by building free and open internet whose elements, from top to bottom, are immune to external forces.
Mesh networks could be a simple work-around. If I remember correctly, Taiwanese were using this as a way to circumvent the CCP
Gab has already done much of this
The problem is the same thing that happened to Parler can happen to Gab from the article: Big Tech has suggested, without irony, that they start competitors. “You’re tired of Twitter? Build your own Twitter.” Of course, Parler attempted that. The moment that would-be-alternative started picking up steam, Apple, Google, and Amazon snuffed it out. (And Cicilline was MIA.)
I’m pretty sure gab has their own servers. I remember reading this early on and the CEO saying gab can’t get shut down for this reason.
Paler was using Amazon servers. That’s why they were shut down.
Thanks for this. Didn't understand this
Anytime.
While I don’t remember much about the subject, when all of the paler stuff went down, I tried to do some further investigating on who actually owns the internet itself. I do remember seeing articles about either a company or an organization that does actually own it or control it. I tried to do some further digging on the subject but didn’t get too far.
I’ll see if I can find those articles again and post them for everyone. Maybe we can get some help in figuring something else out.
You are right. now I set how gab is different than Parler
There's theoretical tech dreamt up for it but it's a long way off from being a reality.
I've wondered about this do you have updated info?
It’s... gonna be a while if you want the quick answer
It's looking like we need a whole separate economy. Schools, banks, stores, medical, ...
Gab owns their own servers and they aren't in the USA. They're going through some growing pains but they're an awesome site. Andrew Torba is based af and a Christian...
From article: To be sure, the solution isn’t building an alternative to Google or to a social media platform. It’s much more revolutionary than that. It’s much more American, too. It’s building from scratch to battle back against overwhelming odds. Our task is to foster the very infrastructure upon which a new search engine or a new social media platform could be entirely safe from deplatforming.
That starts with building our own backbone of the internet: data centers, servers, and cloud hosting services. In other words, the only way remaining to truly protect freedom of expression and, in turn, our democracy, is by building free and open internet whose elements, from top to bottom, are immune to external forces.
Congress can huff and puff about Big Tech. But in the meantime, conservatives – and all others who prize American exceptionalism – should invest in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, ingenuity, and good-old-fashioned gutsiness.
"Twitter booted the president of the United States of America. Lo and behold, it continues to provide a soapbox to Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, whose regime is a state sponsor of terror."
ODIN.
htt ps://isitwe tyet.com/odin/
(broken link)
were they just born?