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Steven Saus has written a blog post about why you should never rely on social media. In his latest post on the topic he points out that:
[...] If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.
[...] I now know, in my gut, how fragile my access to the services Google, Facebook, and Twitter supply are.
Because – and I cannot stress this enough – my ban from G+ was due to something I supposedly posted to G+ when I was unable to post to G+. Hell, I still don’t know what got me in trouble in the first place.
Regardless, my trust is broken, and my role as product has been made painfully clear.
G+ is used as the example, but the same principles apply to the other social control media.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @06:02PM (5 children)
But I have a somewhat stronger claim to my domain, and I take backups of my install, so if my hosting service cuts me off for any reason or none, I'd be back in less than a day.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday April 29 2018, @06:44PM (1 child)
Only if, within that day, you agree to host or get Internet service from the "someone else" that he proclaims you must avoid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @03:17AM
The magic of competition is at work in the hosting industry.
Full video and SM services, otoh, are a near monopoly.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by KiloByte on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:34PM (2 children)
Well, then why can't I connect to dailystormer.com, dailystormer.net, or same at many other TLDs? (It's somehow alive at .name [dailystormer.name]). And that site is relatively tame as Internet goes.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)
dailystormer.com doesn't resolve. dailystormer.net is blocked at my university, but leads to a parking page. dailystormer.name doesn't like my browser.
Mr Andrew Anglin from Worthington OH was smart enough to register all three at competing registrar sites. However, I notice he uses javascript code written by a Jew.
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18AM
Yeah, I don't understand these kind of kooks at all.
Like, Nazis followed the teachings of a slav occultist Blavatsky and as a non-aryan race (Germans) kept murdering an aryan one (gypsies). On the other hand, today it's Hitler who's the symbol of evil when all flavours of fascism together haven't killed even one fifth of people killed by flavours of communism. And so on, so on...
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.