Recent comments in /f/News

Rambler OP wrote (edited )

"Just make your own platform, if you want free speech" they said.

So they did.

And then they still try to silence it.

Parler was just a republic echo chamber similar to how a lot of areas of the web are democrat echo chambers. Free speech should be defended at all costs even if you don't agree with it.

Luckily they can just colocate their own hardware because datacenters don't really give a fuck and aren't ran by SJWs since most dataceners aren't household names and would likely enjoy the press.

I don't have a Parler account and don't really want one, but this is a crazy world.

Hard guessing how much hardware a site like that takes to run, but rent a rack in a datacenter like Quadranet, setup some localized high availability, plenty of companies specialize in DDoS mitigation to help with that load. And they'd be set. The datacenter is unlikely to give a fuck what they're doing unless they're ruining the reputation of rented IP space, which they could always bring their own. The upstream bandwidth providers don't care. They build networks, they're not a bunch of SJWs.

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DefenderOfTruth wrote

Ditto with the indifference.

The golden age of America is over in my eyes. 2020 was the “over the hill” party. Now is the time for individuals to shine, and they will, but the infrastructure as a whole is already burning down.

Trump is a business man. This was a business venture for him and whether he wanted to reform America or not, I’m not sure. Power is power and anyone in the elite circle will never be truly trustworthy in my eyes.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Here is the last archive of the subreddit before it was banned:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210107171401/https://old.reddit.com/r/donaldtrump/

I don't see "calls for violence".

I'm indifferent on Trump. The guy has done some great things and some not so great things as far as I'm concerned during his presidency. One thing is certain though is that subreddit didn't appear to inciting anything. Just more big tech trying to disenfranchise half the country. Sucks, because most large communities are giant echo chambers as a result of this divide. I don't want to be in a right or left wing echo chamber .

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burnerben wrote

I live barely outside of DC we had a curfew. Its amazing to see grown men and woman of this country have a tempure tantrum just because their guy didnt win. So much so they stormed the capitol building with weapons, killed someone, injured many many police, and put thousands of lives in danger. I have a close friend who's father works in the capitol and he wasnt answering his phone, she was scared half to death. Thankfully he's ok. And hopefully the united states invested enough in privacy infringing technologies to arrest these fuckers.

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Rambler OP wrote

I feel that it will only get crazier. The right is realizing that the police and national guard will follow orders regardless if you have a thin blue line flag or not, haha. Lot of, "But we supported you for 8 months" and "What about your oath!?" screams.

Eight months of protests and riots and destruction of private property and businesses from one side of the political scale and not deaths at the hands of law enforcement. Today a female Air Force Veteran was shot and killed by Capitol Police. Will be interesting to see how things go leading up to the inauguration, especially now that there is a death involved. I'd imagine that if Seattle police had shot and killed a CHAZ/CHOP occupant that ti would have fueled a violent response as a reaction, so, we'll see I guess.

I'm just glad I'm far the fuck away from cities. Today I saw some crazy shit in DC, and then later in Washington state when they stormed the Governor's mansion there.

Had to turn the streams off so I could focus on some work I'm trying to get done but still find myself refreshing some sites for some breaking news.

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Wahaha wrote

Multi-party systems ain't better either. There's just even more quarrelling. And backstabbing, since various parties have to work together, but who is working together will change. My country works like that. In the end, there are only two opposing viewpoints, too, but they are spread around a dozen or so parties and half of them will end up participating in the quarrelling. At the end, nothing useful is accomplished, but things get worse every year.

Best approach would be to just split the country apart into components instead of having everyone constantly argue with each other. If you can break it down to two viewpoints, just split the country in two, then everyone can do what they think is best.

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