No time limit, although new comments are disabled after two weeks, I think.
Our friend Carol has a good post over at R>, which I have commented upon.
https://ricochet.com/1100784/i-am-not-self-censoring-the-following-everryone-on-ricochet-needs-to-consider-this-new-censorship-over-private-websites/
Along those lines, who all sees this? I’ll put up another in two weeks. Maybe more.
So who’s up?
Dude,
Carol’s post isn’t on the main feed. Many of us left the caff (and didn’t return–ahem) so, ah, what are you talking about?
Carol’s post is about the UN gaining some new increment of power and self-appointment to start blasting websites offline.
I recommend there that people have back up comms ready to go. I didn’t say it, but — places like this. I know there are others.
The proximate concern was whether R> could stay online if targeted. A site owner can only protest if the domain name and IP addresses no longer work, and that’s part of the “new” UN power grab. That’s not huge news, as it already happens. I think that the UN is trying to normalize its own participation in that sort of thing — that may be new.
I see it. Still here.
I figure this could take a while. No hurry.
I still check in every once in a while just to make sure I can.
Still checking in from time to time.
That said, while Carol’s concern is not unwarranted, it’s not likely to be a practical threat in the short run. Consider, first, that the UN is even less effective than our own government. While it is certainly influenced by corrupt governments, including our own, it has no direct ability to censor. Doing so requires compliance from domain registrars, Internet access providers, and backbone networking peers. Consider which of those are more or less likely to comply with censorship/deplatforming demands issued because some wokesters or corruptocrats got their panties in a wad, and choose your vendors and partners accordingly.
Locke On, while I agree with the thrust of your argument, what technocracy enables is the ability to bypass many of the traditional obstacles.