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Independent journalist Michael Yon, best known for his work during the Iraq War, has accused Facebook of deleting his posts and his users' comments without reasonable cause. Yon now says that Facebook suspended him for a week after his complaint made the news.
Facebook has previously come under criticism for banning links to its competitor Tsu.co, suspending political cartoonist Ben Garrison for his "Crybabies" cartoon critical of campus protests, banning atheist cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, removing a comment calling for the strict separation of church and state, and blocking access to The Federalist article "Microaggressions and Trigger Warnings Meet Real Trauma".
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Independent Journalist Michael Yon Accuses Facebook of Censorship
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday November 30 2015, @05:24PM
Diaspora is probably a better bet.
It's open source and federated so you can easily run your own server and communicate with other "pods"
It's far from perfect but worth a look
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Diaspora is a wonderful idea. However, until we have consumer network connections that aren't throttled on the upload side, products like this will languish, IMHO.
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 30 2015, @08:09PM
Only the pods need that, and actually it's becoming extremely common in urban areas. Around here (Rhode Island) that's all you can find. My FiOS is 50 megabits each way, my friends on Cox have 20, 50 or 75 megabits each way. Maybe if you're on DSL you still have an asymmetric connection, but you probably won't be running a social networking server off a DSL connection anyway.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday November 30 2015, @08:38PM
it's becoming extremely common in urban areas
I live in one of the largest cities in the U.S. and I can't get FIOS. I can get the crap provided by the cable companies, but they won't give me the six free static IP addresses (I looked into it, they want $20/month per address) I get now, and they will block server ports as well as proxy my email.
My ISP gives me free static IP addresses, a dumb pipe and no port blocking bullshit. That's worth the slower speeds to me.
There are serious issues with the current state of consumer ISP connections in the U.S., primarily due to a lack of competition. Good for you that you have something workable in your area.
Then again, can you run your own mail servers or host your own web services?
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 30 2015, @09:55PM
Interesting...we don't have *much* competition here (just Verizon and Cox) but that must be enough I guess. I'm on the outside edge of Pawtucket which is a few miles outside Providence which is still kinda small. Maybe we struck a good local monopoly deal? Convenient location between Boston and NYC? I dunno....
I do actually run several web servers, plus diaspora*, a YaCY node, and a mail server from my apartment. Although the mail server isn't actually sending/receiving direct from my network, it's just an intermediary step between Gandi.net and my devices (POP and delete from their server, then store and IMAP from mine). I didn't expect an outgoing SMTP server from my apartment would work out too well... :)