<story><title>Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/parler-tricks-making-software-disappear/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jf22</author><text>I believe 1984 was about the government rewriting reality and not private industry.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>When your DNS provider removes your record...&lt;p&gt;When your cellular connection becomes an app...&lt;p&gt;When your contact list is removed or hidden...&lt;p&gt;When your text app is locked...&lt;p&gt;When your ISP kills your account...&lt;p&gt;When your webhost provider deletes your site and&amp;#x2F;or content...&lt;p&gt;When they selectively track your location and post it to political groups they support...&lt;p&gt;When your car GPS stops navigating.&lt;p&gt;When your car won&amp;#x27;t start to support a suggested lockdown they support...&lt;p&gt;When your cable channel drops all &amp;quot;opposing&amp;quot; news media...&lt;p&gt;How much of Orwell&amp;#x27;s 1984 do you want?</text></item><item><author>philg_jr</author><text>I mean, you could just open up your favorite web browser and go to any website you&amp;#x27;d like. Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance? Well, I know why it is, because most people have been conditioned to associate every service with an app. But really, it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a major roadblock.&lt;p&gt;Also, not totally related this this article, but I also don&amp;#x27;t understand why Parler didn&amp;#x27;t have a backup DR plan. All of the major cloud platforms have outages. What is stopping them from renting a few racks, or cages of racks, in a datacenter with multiple Tier1 peers? Sounds like they didn&amp;#x27;t plan very well honestly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerrya</author><text>&amp;quot;The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic- books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course.  There you have it, Montag. It didn&amp;#x27;t come from the Government down.  There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/parler-tricks-making-software-disappear/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jf22</author><text>I believe 1984 was about the government rewriting reality and not private industry.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>When your DNS provider removes your record...&lt;p&gt;When your cellular connection becomes an app...&lt;p&gt;When your contact list is removed or hidden...&lt;p&gt;When your text app is locked...&lt;p&gt;When your ISP kills your account...&lt;p&gt;When your webhost provider deletes your site and&amp;#x2F;or content...&lt;p&gt;When they selectively track your location and post it to political groups they support...&lt;p&gt;When your car GPS stops navigating.&lt;p&gt;When your car won&amp;#x27;t start to support a suggested lockdown they support...&lt;p&gt;When your cable channel drops all &amp;quot;opposing&amp;quot; news media...&lt;p&gt;How much of Orwell&amp;#x27;s 1984 do you want?</text></item><item><author>philg_jr</author><text>I mean, you could just open up your favorite web browser and go to any website you&amp;#x27;d like. Why is the lack of an app on the App Store or Play such a major hindrance? Well, I know why it is, because most people have been conditioned to associate every service with an app. But really, it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a major roadblock.&lt;p&gt;Also, not totally related this this article, but I also don&amp;#x27;t understand why Parler didn&amp;#x27;t have a backup DR plan. All of the major cloud platforms have outages. What is stopping them from renting a few racks, or cages of racks, in a datacenter with multiple Tier1 peers? Sounds like they didn&amp;#x27;t plan very well honestly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gagege</author><text>Whichever one of the two is the biggest bully doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, in reality they can both act like Big Brother. I think CS Lewis&amp;#x27; N.I.C.E from That Hideous Strength is more true to life than 1984.</text></comment>