Amazon to take Parler offline, the third tech giant to deplatform the rising social app in days

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[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why do I keep explaining this most basic fact over and over again when you refuse to understand it?

You are not listening. As a user, I want to chose what I download. I don't want to leave it to the site creators. If I cannot control it myself, then that means I have to inspect every single fucking site to make sure it is ok. That's the issue, that's the problem. You even acknowledge it is a problem. Stop pretending that it isn't. And stop with the "but everything is a risk, so this larger risk is just the same" bullshit.

ZeroNet's GUI could be improved to make it so users have more options available about which content to seed and it should also allow users to delete non-optional files from a site on a per-file basis instead of a per-site basis,

yes. this is the entirety of it. Zeronet could be improved, but it hasn't been. Until it is, it is a far greater risk than normal browsing, so it can fuck off. Just like whitewashing simps like yourself should. We agree on the core issue, you just pretend that it isn't a problem, whereas I've had a lot more experience and recognise that issues like this can become very expensive in the long run. In the corporate world you don't hand-wave away security risks, you spend money and time on fixing them

[–]tabesadff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are not listening. As a user, I want to chose what I download. I don't want to leave it to the site creators. If I cannot control it myself, then that means I have to inspect every single fucking site to make sure it is ok.

How do you think the normal web works? The only way you get to choose what you download from a normal website comes from the choice of which specific websites you choose to visit or not visit (unless if you're doing something like blocking ads with an adblocker, though, even in that case, that usually works by blocking certain domains, so it's still a choice of not visiting a certain URL, just a choice that gets made in the background). Once you click on a link, or type in a URL and hit enter in a browser, you're at the mercy of the site owner as to what your computer downloads. I'm sure that's not something you'd blame on the normal web though, right?

You even acknowledge it is a problem. Stop pretending that it isn't.

In a limited context that is entirely avoidable, that is my entire point. Further, you are straight up saying things that aren't even true! Seriously, look up "ZeroNet optional files".