Re: Parler

2021-01-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Eric Kuhnke wrote: Googling "Rob Monster Epik" will tell you just about everything you need to know about that organization. It seems to me that that he is on the same side as Merkel means the problem is not political one of right or left but that GAFA administration is the fundamental evil.

Re: Parler

2021-01-18 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Googling "Rob Monster Epik" will tell you just about everything you need to know about that organization. On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:42 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around > their enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from > today on

Re: Parler

2021-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:41 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > $ dig parler.com ns > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com. > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. Looks like Parler managed to bring up a placeholder web site via a Belize (LACNIC) registered

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Bolitho wrote: List admins, for real. This has run its course just like I said it would several days ago. It is 100% speculative, has nothing to do with network operations, and requires actual lawyers with access to the case information and witnesses to figure out what's going on. No

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread John Sage
On 1/14/21 4:09 PM, Mike Bolitho wrote: And now, with prejudice, I'm requesting that this thread get moderated, before anyone *else* volunteers to jump off a bridge. List admins, for real. This has run its course just like I said it would several days ago. It is 100%

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Mike Bolitho
> > And now, with prejudice, I'm requesting that this thread get moderated, > before > anyone *else* volunteers to jump off a bridge. List admins, for real. This has run its course just like I said it would several days ago. It is 100% speculative, has nothing to do with network operations, and

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Mel Beckman" > John, > > What’s your point? Are you saying that it’s OK for an ISP to break antitrust > laws for a political cause? No, Mel. In very short, he's saying that criminal sedition and armed insurrection *are not political causes*, and I am

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Mel Beckman
John, What’s your point? Are you saying that it’s OK for an ISP to break antitrust laws for a political cause? To bring this discussion back into the realm of operational discussions, shouldn’t we be building infrastructure that has the audit and change management components needed to detect

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread John Levine
In article <70e9-8be1-483c-8e49-e9cda6b4a...@beckman.org> you write: >Parler also has an excellent antitrust case, as the idea that three companies >would simultaneously pull the plug on >their services for a single common customer is going to be hard to explain to >a judge. Aw, come on.

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:27:12PM +0100, Bryan Holloway wrote: > There's a pretty big difference between imparting knowledge and inciting > violence. Not to mention it is was a COINTELPRO work product. -- Posted from my personal account - see X-Disclaimer header. Joe Provo / Gweep / Earthling

Re: Re Parler and its very underprepared attorney

2021-01-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> Per reporting by Katherine Long of the Seattle Times, during > that hearing Parler's attorney: > > - forgot the name of Parler's CEO > > - stated that he's unfamiliar with some of the terminology > because he's not on social media > > - admitted that he filed a day

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:01:19AM -0700, Keith Medcalf wrote: > This result will only come to pass if Parler wins their lawsuit (which is > likely) The first hearing in this case was held today. Per reporting by Katherine Long of the Seattle Times, during that hearing Parler's attorney:

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Ge DUPIN
f > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 7:01 PM > To: Mel Beckman ; adamv0...@netconsultings.com > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Re Parler > > > On Thursday, 14 January, 2021 10:02, Mel Beckman wrote: > > >I, however, do know that this is the cont

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Rod Beck
topic. Regards, Roderick. From: NANOG on behalf of Keith Medcalf Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 7:01 PM To: Mel Beckman ; adamv0...@netconsultings.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Re Parler On Thursday, 14 January, 2021 10:02, Mel Beckman wrote

RE: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Matthias Merkel
. Matthias Merkel Staclar, Inc. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Matt Erculiani Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:46 To: aheb...@pubnix.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re: Parler Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna glue this domain down to 0.

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Shamil K via NANOG
isive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is >paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. > >>-Original Message- >>From: NANOG On Behalf Of >>Jeff P >>Sent: Wednesday, 13 January, 2021 10:43 >>To: nanog@nanog.org >>Su

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:13 AM wrote: > (b) Termination for Cause. > (i) material breach remains uncured for a period of 30 days from receipt of > notice It's fairly clear from Amazon's communications that this is their basis for terminating Parler. They began notifying Parler in September

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Alain Hebert
    Good to here since you're either part of:         . Parler legal team;         . Amazon legal team;         . Pervue of all the communication between both corporation;     ... or just a Parler user ... is my guess. - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread adamv0025
n 6. (especially with subsection (a) which seem to provide a lot of options for interpretation and manoeuvring space) adam -Original Message- From: Mel Beckman Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 5:02 PM To: adamv0...@netconsultings.com Cc: Keith Medcalf ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re:

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 14 January, 2021 10:02, Mel Beckman wrote: >I, however, do know that this is the contract that was in force. Because >I read the lawsuit, and the contract, which I’ve verified is identical to >the one posted online, is included as an exhibit (although the courts >managed to get

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Mel Beckman
I, however, do know that this is the contract that was in force. Because I read the lawsuit, and the contract, which I’ve verified is identical to the one posted online, is included as an exhibit (although the courts managed to get the pages out of order). And yes, Amazon had a duty to provide

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:47 AM Matt Erculiani wrote: > Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna > glue this domain down to 0.0.0.0 and not allow registration"? Absent a court order? No, not a chance. Verisign is not parler's registrar. They'd be inviting

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Matt Erculiani
Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna glue this domain down to 0.0.0.0 and not allow registration"? Is there any precedent for this? Would seem like a game of whack-a-mole that anyone would want to avoid. Really that would seem like the only way to ratchet

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread james jones
God I miss that man! On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:28 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > 2. Where do we expect legit insurrections to communicate? Should > > AWS/Facebook/Twitter boot those calling for violent uprisings in Hong > Kong > > (for example). > > > > I suppose

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread adamv0025
> Medcalf > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 1:06 PM > > > On Thursday, 14 January, 2021 04:53, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: > > >https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ > >7.2 Termination. > >(a) Termination for Convenience. You may terminate this Agreement for > >any reason by providing us

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread niels=nanog
* n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) [Mon 11 Jan 2021, 13:56 CET]: Eric S. Raymond wrote on 11/01/2021 00:00: Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted. this is quite an innovative level of speculation. Care to provide

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Alain Hebert
    Hi,     This is just their DNS, parler.com itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now. - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax: 514-990-9443

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 14 January, 2021 04:53, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: >https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ >7.2 Termination. >(a) Termination for Convenience. You may terminate this Agreement for any >reason by providing us notice and closing your account for all Services >for which we provide

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread adamv0025
nder? Even if the product still works can you actually legally use it? Do you own it then? Etc.. adam -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Keith Medcalf Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:08 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Re Parler I thought y'all yankee doodles had this th

RE: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread Keith Medcalf
quired. -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. >-Original Message- >From: NANOG On Behalf Of >Jeff P >Sent: Wednesday, 13 January, 2021 10:43 >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re Parler > &

RE: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jerry Cloe
They may just be a reseller, but they are claiming to be themselves (although I've never heard of epik until this week), the whois record seems to hit all the right buttons to indicate they are a registrar and dns:     $ whois parler.com | grep -i epik [Redirected to whois.epik.com] [Querying

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Matt Corallo
Errr, sorry, typing on my phone. I should have included a “(and, thus, presumably the current DNS hosting returning dummy A records is a temporary thing)”. I presume they transferred the domain and set up some temporary DNS hosting through Epik, likely because, as someone else pointed out, it

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > Sure, I just found it marginally comical that amazon, after making a big > stink about kicking them off, is still providing them service, even if it’s > one-hop indirect. That said, someone else suggested that Epik is denying that > they

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Matt Corallo
Sure, I just found it marginally comical that amazon, after making a big stink about kicking them off, is still providing them service, even if it’s one-hop indirect. That said, someone else suggested that Epik is denying that they will host the site, only providing registrar services for the

RE: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jerry Cloe
I think its more probable to say that AWS didn't even know about this. As far as I can see, epik is just another AWS customer who spun up an instance and is hosting dns on that instance.  I doubt AWS is watching customers at a level that would detect this. But, I'm also sure that AWS has since

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: > > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com. > > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. > > ... > > ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: > In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around their > enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from > today on parler's new host: > > $ dig parler.com ns > ... > parler.com. 300 IN NS

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "esr" > sro...@ronan-online.com : >> >> When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house >> and >> external counsel, not to moderate which groups I hosted based on content, >> less >> I become responsible for moderating all

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jay Hennigan" > On 1/10/21 12:40, Matthew Petach wrote: > >> There's easy solutions to the problem--hiring really good engineers >> to write your own AWS-lookalike where you can host whatever content >> you want, hosted in buildings you've built on land

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > 2. Where do we expect legit insurrections to communicate? Should > AWS/Facebook/Twitter boot those calling for violent uprisings in Hong Kong > (for example). > > I suppose #2 is simply one mans freedom fighter is another criminal.

Re: [External] Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Matt Corallo
Ah! I admit I haven't been following the latest in drama-land too closely. I was still under the impression they had a full hosting deal. Guess it'll be interesting to see where they land. Matt On 1/13/21 9:08 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote: I see your point, but I am not sure running the

Re: [External] Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Hunter Fuller via NANOG
I see your point, but I am not sure running the authoritative name servers for a site meets the popular definition of "hosting" them. Epik is currently denying that they are going to host Parler in a traditional sense, though they are the registrar for parler.com. since a couple of days ago. Of

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Matt Corallo
In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around their enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from today on parler's new host: $ dig parler.com ns ... parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com. parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com.

Re Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Jeff P
ICYMI: Amazon's response to Parler Antitrust relief: https://cdn.pacermonitor.com/pdfserver/LHNWTAI/137249864/Parler_LLC_v_Amazon_Web_Services_Inc__wawdce-21-00031__0010.0.pdf JeffP je...@jeffp.us

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Bryan Holloway
in a hurry. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/idaho-internet-provider-to-block-facebook-twitter-over-their-trump-bans/ Thank you, Kevin McCormick From: NANOG On Behalf Of mark seery Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:06 PM To: K. Scott Helms Cc: NANOG Operators' Group Subject: Re: P

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Brielle
> The way I read it, they aren't blocking Facebook/Twitter for everyone > - the customer has to request the filter for their service. > > Regards, > Lee > >> >> Thank you, >> >> Kevin McCormick >> >> From: NANOG On Behalf Of mark >> seery &

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Lee
From: NANOG On Behalf Of mark > seery > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:06 PM > To: K. Scott Helms > Cc: NANOG Operators' Group > Subject: Re: Parler > > I assume multiple networks/ ISPs that have acceptable use policies that call > out criminality and incitement to viole

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/12/21 1:47 PM, John Curran wrote: On 12 Jan 2021, at 12:40 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: And yet, Amazon will still happily sell you this item: https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1607966123/ In fact, it is listed as: #1 Best Seller in Anarchism Thanks for the

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread John Curran
On 12 Jan 2021, at 12:40 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > > And yet, Amazon will still happily sell you this item: > > https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1607966123/ > > In fact, it is listed as: #1 Best Seller in Anarchism Thanks for the reminder! (I hadn’t realized it

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
ovider-to-block-facebook-twitter-over-their-trump-bans/ >> >> Thank you, >> >> Kevin McCormick >> >> From: NANOG On Behalf Of mark >> seery >> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:06 PM >> To: K. Scott Helms >> Cc: NANOG Operators' G

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Paul Timmins
Operators' Group *Subject:* Re: Parler I assume multiple networks/ ISPs that have acceptable use policies that call out criminality and incitement to violence, for example: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/comcast-acceptable-use-policy Have these AUPs been invoked previously for the

RE: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Kevin McCormick
://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/idaho-internet-provider-to-block-facebook-twitter-over-their-trump-bans/ Thank you, Kevin McCormick From: NANOG On Behalf Of mark seery Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:06 PM To: K. Scott Helms Cc: NANOG Operators' Group Subject: Re: Parler I assume multiple

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:46 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > ...unless the higher calling of "religious freedom" is at stake, > in which case, sure, it's OK to exclude entire classes of people, > if serving them would go against your religious beliefs. > precedent set by > Masterpiece Cakeshop v.

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:53 PM William Herrin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Matthew Petach > wrote: > > Private businesses can engage in prior restraint all they want. > > Hi Matt, > > You've conflated a couple ideas here. Public accommodation laws were > passed in the wake of Jim

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread K. Scott Helms
They certainly have been many many times, but that's an entirely different animal than the rules for content hosting and publishing. Actions from network providers have (AFAIK) always been in conjunction with some traffic from or to the violating party rather than an otherwise legal content

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Ben Cannon
We’re straying pretty far into OT here but they do run a network - Trump banning TikTok because they hurt his feelings would be Stalinist. Twitter banning Trump for TOD violations is the Free Market speaking. It’s pretty fundamental to civics, participation society, and sanity in general, to

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 9:01 PM, William Herrin wrote: Look closer. The AWS RDS version of mysql is unable to replicate with your version of mysql. The configuration which would permit it is not exposed to you. Unless something has changed in the last couple years? Anything that abstracts database

RE: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
ssage- >From: Rod Beck >Sent: Monday, 11 January, 2021 05:13 >To: Keith Medcalf >Subject: Re: Parler > >Hi, > > >Your distinction sounds specious. The Courts have consistently that the >1st amendment protects free speech from government retaliation in many >i

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Jason Kuehl
S3 objects in Parler are now showing " All access to this object has been disabled" This error means you are trying to access a bucket that has been locked down by AWS so that nobody can access it, regardless of permissions -- all access has been disabled. On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 10:33 PM, Randy Bush wrote: In article <474fe6a6-9aa8-47a7-82c6-860a21b0e...@ronan-online.com> you write: When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house and external counsel, not to moderate which groups I hosted based on content, less I become

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
Eric S. Raymond wrote on 11/01/2021 00:00: Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted. this is quite an innovative level of speculation. Care to provide sources? Nick

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread sronan
Aurora MySQL can absolutely be replicated with on-prem SQL, we did it at $dayjob. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2021, at 12:03 AM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:32 PM wrote: >>> On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 1/10/21 10:21 AM, William

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Bryan Fields
On 1/11/21 1:33 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > it is really annoying that you leave not the slightest clue to who the > hell you are replying If you use a threaded email client (MUA), it's really easy to see it. It was a reply to sro...@ronan-online.com's email of 10 Jan 2021 08:42:56 -0500 His MUA

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, h...@interall.co.il wrote: I would assume Google and Azure would act the same to Parler. So what will end up happening is that US based fringe content will end up being hosted in China or Russia, and Chinese and Russian fringe content will end up being hosted in the USA.

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread hank
Toma, I would assume Google and Azure would act the same to Parler. So what will end up happening is that US based fringe content will end up being hosted in China or Russia, and Chinese and Russian fringe content will end up being hosted in the USA. -Hank Caveat: The views expressed

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread cosmo
Hey look, someone posted every link to every post and video uploaded to the platform during the DC Capitol attack ... https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347896132798533632 On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:08:24 -0500, Izaac said: > > >

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:08:24 -0500, Izaac said: > demonstrated consistently different behavior between them, i.e. the > @potus account is used for official communications and @realdonaldtrump > for personal communications with the public. The former is indeed How does that square with the White

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Randy Bush
> In article <474fe6a6-9aa8-47a7-82c6-860a21b0e...@ronan-online.com> you write: >> When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house >> and external counsel, not to moderate which groups I hosted >> based on content, less I become responsible for moderating all groups,

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
Sorry for intruding one more time but in my experience, which is absolutely vast, amateurs argue written law, professionals (i.e., lawyers) generally argue precedent; how courts have interpreted the law in cases applicable to the issue at hand. If no useful precedent exists professionals tend

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
Maybe read Holmes' dissent where he uses the phrase "fire in a crowded theater" or at least listen to the cliff notes: https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/28/make-no-law-episode-seven-fire-in-a-crowded-theater/ . -A On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:59 PM Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 1/10/21 13:50, Rod Beck

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
Sometimes it's worth turning the issue around and looking at it right up the...um, whatever. A friend who is rather right-wing (tho mostly sane) said angrily that AWS terminating Parler was "Stalinist" (apparently his metaphor for totalitarian.) I said no, the government _forcing_ AWS to carry

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:32 PM wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > >> On 1/10/21 10:21 AM, William Herrin wrote: > >> Are you sure about that? Consider your database. Suppose you want to > >> run your primary database in AWS with a standby replica in Azure. As > >>

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
On January 10, 2021 at 08:42 sro...@ronan-online.com (sro...@ronan-online.com) wrote: > While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want > for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is > now in the content moderation business, which

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > Private businesses can engage in prior restraint all they want. Hi Matt, You've conflated a couple ideas here. Public accommodation laws were passed in the wake of Jim Crow to the effect that any business which provides services to the

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Matthew Petach
Oh, geez... I was going to ignore this thread, I really was. :( On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:13 PM Keith Medcalf wrote: > >The first amendment deals with the government passing laws restricting > >freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with to whom AWS chooses to sell > >their services. It is

RE: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
>The first amendment deals with the government passing laws restricting >freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with to whom AWS chooses to sell >their services. It is also not absolute (fire, crowded theater, etc.) You are correct and incorrect. The First Amendment prohibits the Government

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread mark seery
I assume multiple networks/ ISPs that have acceptable use policies that call out criminality and incitement to violence, for example: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/comcast-acceptable-use-policy Have these AUPs been invoked previously for these reasons, or would that be new

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread John Levine
In article <474fe6a6-9aa8-47a7-82c6-860a21b0e...@ronan-online.com> you write: >When I actively hosted USENET servers, I was repeatedly warned by in-house and >external counsel, not to moderate which groups I hosted >based on content, less I become responsible for moderating all groups,

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 14:06 Keith Medcalf wrote: > > The world is now a different place with the election of the Nazi's. > OK, it's now official. I'm invoking Godwin's Law on this thread. *plonk* Matt

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Jim Mercer
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:15:21PM -0500, Izaac wrote: > Got links? bot. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 4:48 PM, Dan Hollis wrote: On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Michael Thomas wrote: On 1/10/21 3:15 PM, Izaac wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread niels=nanog
* iz...@setec.org (Izaac) [Mon 11 Jan 2021, 00:22 CET]: Got links? Your message arrived like five times here but I did the google for you: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws | On Parler, reaction to the impending ban was swift and outraged, with | some

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Michael Thomas wrote: On 1/10/21 3:15 PM, Izaac wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: sro...@ronan-online.com : While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 3:40 PM, Izaac wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 03:36:18PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: sro...@ronan-online.com : While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Izaac
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:56:10AM -0500, Mark Seiden wrote: > at the risk of providing more heat than light, trump violated the > Presidential Records Act repeatedly by later taking down (aka destroying) > his own unwise tweets. this repeated violation of law using twitter itself > would have

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Izaac
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 03:36:18PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of > > > armed > > > insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional >

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
sro...@ronan-online.com : > While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want > for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is > now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open them up > to liability if they fail to

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/10/21 3:15 PM, Izaac wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional courtesy. Got links? Ask Google, Apple and

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Izaac
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:58:14AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Given that people on Parler are currently discussing/planning attacks > against Amazon/Google/Apple/etc.'s facilities and personnel, this seems wise. Got links? -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \/ |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Izaac
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed > insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional > courtesy. Got links? -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \/ |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Richard Porter
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:58 PM Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 1/10/21 13:50, Rod Beck wrote: > > > As a big fan of the 1st amendment, but someone deeply appalled by the > > riot last week and keenly aware of how social media are letting the mud > > to the surface, I am very perplexed how to reconcile

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 1/10/21 13:50, Rod Beck wrote: As a big fan of the 1st amendment, but someone deeply appalled by the riot last week and keenly aware of how social media are letting the mud to the surface, I am very perplexed how to reconcile free speech and the garbage flowing through our social streets.

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread K. Scott Helms
Right, it's not a list for content hosting. Scott Helms On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 5:42 PM wrote: > No, this is a list for Network Operators. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 5:32 PM, K. Scott Helms > wrote: > >  > This is a list for pushing bits. The fact that many/most of us

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread sronan
No, this is a list for Network Operators. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2021, at 5:32 PM, K. Scott Helms wrote: > >  > This is a list for pushing bits. The fact that many/most of us have other > businesses doesn't make this an appropriate forum for SIP issues (to use my > own work as an

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread K. Scott Helms
This is a list for pushing bits. The fact that many/most of us have other businesses doesn't make this an appropriate forum for SIP issues (to use my own work as an example). On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 4:52 PM wrote: > This is a list for Network Operators, AWS certainly operates networks. > > Sent

RE: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
Laszko >Sent: Sunday, 10 January, 2021 15:07 >To: Keith Medcalf >Subject: RE: Parler > >Which ones are the Nazi’s? > > > > > >James > > > >From: NANOG On Behalf Of >Keith Medcalf >Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 1:59 PM >To: nanog@nanog.org >Cc: n

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
Then again as a network operator you don’t discriminate against what is coming through you to a user or customer ... right ? ... :-D Unless it directly impacts you or the actual customer or you’ve been served by our ubermint to do otherwise non-advantageous things whatever they may be ;-) --

RE: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
>It's amazing how far the world has stumbled that "fomenting violent >insurrection and calling for the murder of elected officials" now >falls under standard T against abusive behaviour where this used >to be perfectly fine a year ago. The world is now a different place with the election of the

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