Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio... Regards, Bill HErrin
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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content. 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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
Ah, yes... re-enter the experiences of Compuserve. For that, I give you Telecom '96 and section 230 which, they think, makes them exempt from such things. Regardless, there are a whole lot of little triggering pebbles that risk being trodden upon here. From monopolist behaviour to basic discrimination (just because you're a private company, you do not have the right to descriminate in who you are willing to do business with. Wasn't that the whole point of the wedding thing?), there are many things to be careful of here, even though it will probably be a hard sell. Still, damned irresponsible to risk touch that precedent, IMO. It means a whole lot of flak comes around to the rest of us. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 08:42:56AM -0500, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn???t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
???Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
--- Wayne Bouchard web@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+kmedcalf=dessus.com@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Wayne Bouchard Sent: Sunday, 10 January, 2021 06:55 To: sronan@ronan-online.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Parler
Ah, yes... re-enter the experiences of Compuserve. For that, I give you Telecom '96 and section 230 which, they think, makes them exempt from such things. Regardless, there are a whole lot of little triggering pebbles that risk being trodden upon here. From monopolist behaviour to basic discrimination (just because you're a private company, you do not have the right to descriminate in who you are willing to do business with. Wasn't that the whole point of the wedding thing?), there are many things to be careful of here, even though it will probably be a hard sell. Still, damned irresponsible to risk touch that precedent, IMO. It means a whole lot of flak comes around to the rest of us.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 08:42:56AM -0500, sronan@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 could
That all only matters if you (the oppressor) believes that your victim (the oppressed) has the means to "bring peace to their enemy" either by wielding devices of War and Destruction or through the Legal System. This is the case with all "habitual criminals" such as AWS, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Law Enforcement, and the Government. Given that the number of "victims" capable of obtaining "redress" for the improper actions of the above mentioned "habitual criminals" is very low, there is little risk of the "habitual criminal" suffering any consequence for their actions, thus they consider themselves impervious and may act as they please whenever they please with zero consequence. You will note that the aforementioned "habitual criminals" *never* act against those capable of defending themselves or bringing them peace. This is simply the way of the world. It has always been thus and will always be thus. -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. potentially
open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn???t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
???Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler
is in
search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler- suspension/
Regards, Bill HErrin
--- Wayne Bouchard web@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc. Mike
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
Mike
Is that illegal though?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
Mike
Yes, significantly. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:10 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
Is that illegal though?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
Mike
On 1/10/21 7:13 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Yes, significantly.
Two observations: 1) you know not one thing about the laws of the United States of America 2) a google search for your email's domain name leads to nothing but a blank web page, and a Facebook page for some sort of Philippine video game page and a Twitter account apparently with 0 tweets, and with 4 followers, 2 of whom seem to be porn and 2 of which seem to be MLM scams Make of all that what you will. Speaking only for myself, *plonk* - John --
Funny, you must have found things all which are not me. You are really good at Google. Hahahaha! Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:42 AM, John Sage <jsage@finchhaven.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 7:13 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Yes, significantly. Two observations:
1) you know not one thing about the laws of the United States of America
2) a google search for your email's domain name leads to nothing but a blank web page, and a Facebook page for some sort of Philippine video game page and a Twitter account apparently with 0 tweets, and with 4 followers, 2 of whom seem to be porn and 2 of which seem to be MLM scams
Make of all that what you will.
Speaking only for myself, *plonk*
- John --
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 been enough for twitter to either restrict his using any mechanism for revision or deletion or even account termination for aup violations. i pointed this out to them 3.91 years ago. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:12 AM Matt Hoppes < mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
Is that illegal though?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t
that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
Mike
On Jan 10, 2021, at 4:56 PM, Mark Seiden <mis@seiden.com> 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 been enough for twitter to either restrict his using any mechanism for revision or deletion or even account termination for aup violations. i pointed this out to them 3.91 years ago.
Courtesy of someone who pays closer attention to all this than do I: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/772325133/as-president-trump-tweets-and-delet... -Bill
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 been enough for twitter to either restrict his using any mechanism for revision or deletion or even account termination for aup violations. i pointed this out to them 3.91 years ago.
First, findings of violation of law are done in courts, not by you. Second, as specifically regards Twitter: the Library of Congress had been archiving all tweets since 2010. And only recently, on 31DEC2017, moved to archiving "some" tweets. Official records exist there. Additionally, the President has two accounts at his disposal and has 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 archived under the PRA. Third, the standard put forth in your opinion -- both ill informed and ill conceived -- would also refer to FOIA and the various States' FOI laws. If what you allege is true, the singling out of this one official is disingenuous in the extreme. -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
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 House Press Secretary's statement (never walked back as far as I know) that @realdonaldtrump tweets were official government policy statements?
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 <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
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 House Press Secretary's statement (never walked back as far as I know) that @realdonaldtrump tweets were official government policy statements?
The Courts have never interpreted the free speech rights to be totally without limits. I am pretty sure sedition defined as a concrete threat to take back the country by blocking the vote certification of the incoming President is not protected speech. Just because one does not moderate all content does not mean one cannot moderate some content. Mostly hands off does not imply totally hands off. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+rod.beck=unitedcablecompany.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 4:10 PM To: sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@ronan-online.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Parler Is that illegal though?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:07 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 5:42 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
Mike
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn???t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison. Twitter wasn't involved in the former. There is a huge difference in the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's right as it is their private property). The President is free to pursue alternative venues for his messaging. Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful. At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan. In an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not- so-small ways. I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what the correct answer is, though. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov
While I don’t like it - at the end of the day a private company can make a decision to have or not have a customer (unless somehow it’s racial or sexual orientation related apparently). Nothing is stopping Parler from spinning up their own servers. They willingly chose to use AWS.
Conclusion: Companies are not permitted to discriminate amongst who they will have as a customer on the basis of the racial or sexual orientation (or a number of other bases). Companies are permitted to discriminate amongst who they will have as a customer using other criteria. E.g. "No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service." Customers who disturb other customers can also get "fired" or banned by the company if they're deemed not worth the trouble...but the reason for doing so must not be illegal itself. Companies who are wary of the law may also be particularly concerned about serving customers who are using (or enabling others to use) the goods and services that company offers in ways that may violate the laws of the jurisdiction the company is under. (In some neighborhoods, Home Depot locks up all the spray paint cans, and limits sales to customers, as part of local anti-graffiti measures.) --- There are parallels in establishing or ending employment...there are certain reasons that provide a legal basis for hiring or not hiring someone, as well as reasons that provide a legal basis for firing someone. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:34 Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
While I don’t like it - at the end of the day a private company can make a decision to have or not have a customer (unless somehow it’s racial or sexual orientation related apparently).
Nothing is stopping Parler from spinning up their own servers. They willingly chose to use AWS.
As with common carriage and net neutrality, the discrimination has to be consistent. Sent from Mobile Device
On Jan 10, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Haudy Kazemi via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Conclusion:
Companies are not permitted to discriminate amongst who they will have as a customer on the basis of the racial or sexual orientation (or a number of other bases).
Companies are permitted to discriminate amongst who they will have as a customer using other criteria. E.g. "No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service." Customers who disturb other customers can also get "fired" or banned by the company if they're deemed not worth the trouble...but the reason for doing so must not be illegal itself.
Companies who are wary of the law may also be particularly concerned about serving customers who are using (or enabling others to use) the goods and services that company offers in ways that may violate the laws of the jurisdiction the company is under. (In some neighborhoods, Home Depot locks up all the spray paint cans, and limits sales to customers, as part of local anti-graffiti measures.)
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There are parallels in establishing or ending employment...there are certain reasons that provide a legal basis for hiring or not hiring someone, as well as reasons that provide a legal basis for firing someone.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:34 Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: While I don’t like it - at the end of the day a private company can make a decision to have or not have a customer (unless somehow it’s racial or sexual orientation related apparently).
Nothing is stopping Parler from spinning up their own servers. They willingly chose to use AWS.
I’m not sure either Joe. I am a staunch proponent of free expression, but I remember a time when you could just. Totally trust an e-mail header. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO ben@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:25 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn???t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison.
Twitter wasn't involved in the former. There is a huge difference in the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's right as it is their private property). The President is free to pursue alternative venues for his messaging.
Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful.
At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan. In an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not- so-small ways.
I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that others pay for this stuff with their lives. I don't have any idea what the correct answer is, though.
... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov
On Jan 10, 2021, at 4:03 PM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote: Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication.
Right, the _government_ can’t discriminate in which of its citizens it communicates with, and which it listens to.
So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
Sure. No problem with that. An unregulated, non-monopoly, private party isn’t required to provide a forum for anyone, government or individual. -Bill
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:06 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
They blocked Trump's personal account, not the White House or the official Twitter account of the President. They're perfectly within their rights to block the accounts of individuals violating their terms of service. Matt
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:05 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t block people, because his Tweets were government communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
Howdy, The President is a government official. Government officials may not obstruct access to public government communication. Twitter is a private enterprise. Outside of things like the emergency broadcast system or a consensual contract, no private enterprise is compelled to publish or circulate any government communication. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
On 1/10/21 9:48 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
There's legit users of parler and 8-chan. Not every one is on the racist/insurrectionist/etc. sections. And who's to say they have less of a right to their unpopular speech than I have to discuss retro video games? This seems like it raises two interesting questions: 1. When should a contracted provider be able to discontinue service with little to no notice to the customer if they find their content distasteful? 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. Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really concerned with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it. I seem to recall a customer who was using provider IP space that sued and won an injunction circa 2004 against their provider allowing time to migrate. I remember reading the decision and was taken back by the decent grasp the judge had on BGP/IP space. I can see how this might be similar. Many years ago I was CoLo'd at a facility which shut off the racks of a customer at 9am on a Monday after finding said customer had poached an employee from the provider and was intending to compete with services the CoLo offered. They physically disconnected the cross connects to these racks for this and banned the customer's employees from the facility. Their counsel even told the customer "any contract is voidable at any time". Basic planning for any company should ensure you never have all your eggs in one basket. Perhaps this was a bit dumb on the customers part, but they had a contract. The cloud is just someone else's computer.. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net
On 1/10/21 11:11 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really concerned with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it.
Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional courtesy. Mike
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:03 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 11:11 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really
concerned
with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it.
Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional courtesy.
Mike
I thought the boot was announced after physical threats were made against Google and Apple facilities and employees for removing the app from the app stores? There's professional courtesy; but the moment you start threatening to bomb datacenters and kill employees, it's pretty clear professional courtesy has been forcibly thrown through the reinforced double-glazed energy-efficient windows and has plummeted straight through the roof of the classic Cadillac in the parking lot ten stories below. :( Matt
On 1/10/21 12:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:03 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com <mailto:mike@mtcc.com>> wrote:
On 1/10/21 11:11 AM, Bryan Fields wrote: > > Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really concerned > with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry > standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the > police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal > content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it. > Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional courtesy.
Mike
I thought the boot was announced after physical threats were made against Google and Apple facilities and employees for removing the app from the app stores?
There's professional courtesy; but the moment you start threatening to bomb datacenters and kill employees, it's pretty clear professional courtesy has been forcibly thrown through the reinforced double-glazed energy-efficient windows and has plummeted straight through the roof of the classic Cadillac in the parking lot ten stories below. :(
Yeah, it may have been self-interest or all of the above. I really don't think that much concern needs to be given any more than the concern given to spammers and other fraudsters. "you have 30 days to move your criminal enterprise, have a good day". Bletch. Mike
It’s gratifying to see the many talented engineers here working on a solution to the underlying problem: Censorship. Don’t confuse freedom of speech (which protects us from government censorship) from freedom of commerce, which is a uniquely American aspect of Internet design. As John Gilmore wisely said, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Let’s start helping the free market route around the censors! -mel On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:24 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote: On 1/10/21 12:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:03 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com<mailto:mike@mtcc.com>> wrote: On 1/10/21 11:11 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really concerned with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it.
Considering that it seems that there continues to be talk/planning of armed insurrection, I think we can forgive them for violating professional courtesy. Mike I thought the boot was announced after physical threats were made against Google and Apple facilities and employees for removing the app from the app stores? There's professional courtesy; but the moment you start threatening to bomb datacenters and kill employees, it's pretty clear professional courtesy has been forcibly thrown through the reinforced double-glazed energy-efficient windows and has plummeted straight through the roof of the classic Cadillac in the parking lot ten stories below. :( Yeah, it may have been self-interest or all of the above. I really don't think that much concern needs to be given any more than the concern given to spammers and other fraudsters. "you have 30 days to move your criminal enterprise, have a good day". Bletch. Mike
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:29 PM Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
It’s gratifying to see the many talented engineers here working on a solution to the underlying problem: Censorship. Don’t confuse freedom of speech (which protects us from government censorship) from freedom of commerce, which is a uniquely American aspect of Internet design.
As John Gilmore wisely said, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
Let’s start helping the free market route around the censors!
-mel
I'm sorry, Mel The market hasn't been "free" for quite a long time. 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 you've bought. It's most definitely not free, though. I'm available to start immediately--but I charge $2M/year, plus expenses, including a full security detail to protect me from the types of people who are likely to use the platform once it's done. You're "free" to hire me--but I most definitely don't work for free. You're "free" to buy your own land to build a datacenter on; but it most definitely isn't available for free. You're "free" to buy electricity to run the servers you put in that datacenter you've built--but the electricity is most definitely not arriving for free. The part Gilmore missed is that the 'Net only routes around censorship if someone is willing to foot the bill. Matt
You’ve described capitalism perfectly, and it works just as it should on the Internet, at least so far. Yes, the Internet has been a free market. But it won’t remain that way unless we resist censorship by a few wealthy companies. Parler, fortunately, has some backers who can foot the bill. -mel On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:29 PM Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org<mailto:mel@beckman.org>> wrote: It’s gratifying to see the many talented engineers here working on a solution to the underlying problem: Censorship. Don’t confuse freedom of speech (which protects us from government censorship) from freedom of commerce, which is a uniquely American aspect of Internet design. As John Gilmore wisely said, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” Let’s start helping the free market route around the censors! -mel I'm sorry, Mel The market hasn't been "free" for quite a long time. 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 you've bought. It's most definitely not free, though. I'm available to start immediately--but I charge $2M/year, plus expenses, including a full security detail to protect me from the types of people who are likely to use the platform once it's done. You're "free" to hire me--but I most definitely don't work for free. You're "free" to buy your own land to build a datacenter on; but it most definitely isn't available for free. You're "free" to buy electricity to run the servers you put in that datacenter you've built--but the electricity is most definitely not arriving for free. The part Gilmore missed is that the 'Net only routes around censorship if someone is willing to foot the bill. Matt
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 Parler, or Twitter to carry Trump (another 'plaint) would be "Stalinist". Imagine if a Chinese social media company refused to carry anything posted by Xi Jinping (China's president) for similar reasoning. Then you'd likely, one can only speculate, see "Stalinist" in action. P.S. Does anyone know whether Trump is paid for his Twitter traffic as many celebrities are? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
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 get these right. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO ben@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:33 PM, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
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 Parler, or Twitter to carry Trump (another 'plaint) would be "Stalinist".
Imagine if a Chinese social media company refused to carry anything posted by Xi Jinping (China's president) for similar reasoning.
Then you'd likely, one can only speculate, see "Stalinist" in action.
P.S. Does anyone know whether Trump is paid for his Twitter traffic as many celebrities are?
-- -Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
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 you've bought.
There's also the issue of carrying the packets from those servers to your audience and from your audience to those servers. -- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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 ;-) -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 15:31, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
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 you've bought.
There's also the issue of carrying the packets from those servers to your audience and from your audience to those servers.
-- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay@west.net>
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 you've bought.
There's also the issue of carrying the packets from those servers to your audience and from your audience to those servers.
In the final analysis, genties and ladelpersons, what we're talking about is the current shape of the Internet Death Penalty. Just in case anyone missed that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
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? -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
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 Amazon. I'm sure they have the receipts. Mike
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 courtesy. Got links?
Ask Google, Apple and Amazon. I'm sure they have the receipts.
No, you made this claim. I am asking you. Got links? Screenshots? -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__
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 professional courtesy. Got links? Ask Google, Apple and Amazon. I'm sure they have the receipts. No, you made this claim. I am asking you. Got links? Screenshots?
I didn't realize this was a high school debate. Your beef is with them, not me. Mike
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 courtesy. Got links? Ask Google, Apple and Amazon. I'm sure they have the receipts.
You made the claim. -Dan
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 them for violating professional courtesy. Got links? Ask Google, Apple and Amazon. I'm sure they have the receipts.
You made the claim.
I also said "seems" which means that I won't be bothered dredging up documentation for something easily looked up by people trying to excuse the inexcusable. I've seen bits and pieces from the open sewer. That is quite enough. Mike
* izaac@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 discussing violence against Amazon. "It would be a pity if someone | with explosives training were to pay a visit to some AWS data | centers," one person wrote. -- Niels.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:15:21PM -0500, Izaac wrote:
Got links?
bot. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@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 broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
To be fair, AWS has existing contract/service clauses that are very very aggressive for termination. For example, if AWS contacts you regarding the hosting of CPEV, you have 24 hours to remove it and respond, if you dont - they immediately terminate the account. So the 24 hour warning for Parlor is not new behavior for Amazon. Also, if you specifically read Amazon Customer Agreement (https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ <https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/>), Section 6.1.a. and 7.2.b.ii. lay out basically what they did to Parlor. Section 6.1.a.iii. says" "We may suspend your or any End User’s right to access or use any portion or all of the Service Offerings immediately upon notice to you if we determine: your or an End User’s use of the Service Offerings could subject us, our affiliates, or any third party to liability" Clearly if Parlor is used to covertly coordiinate a planned attack on our government that leads to loss of lives, AWS doesn’t want to be held liable for hosting that infrastructure. The above clause requires no extended notices, it can be immediate - so 24 hours was a favor…. -John
On Jan 10, 2021, at 2:11 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
On 1/10/21 9:48 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
Is it content moderation, or just giving the boot to enabling criminal activity? Would that more providers be given the boot for enabling voice spam scams, for example. Didn't one of the $n-chan's get the boot a while back? I don't seem to recall a lot of push back about that and it was pretty much the same situation, iirc.
There's legit users of parler and 8-chan. Not every one is on the racist/insurrectionist/etc. sections. And who's to say they have less of a right to their unpopular speech than I have to discuss retro video games?
This seems like it raises two interesting questions:
1. When should a contracted provider be able to discontinue service with little to no notice to the customer if they find their content distasteful?
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.
Anyone hosting with Amazon/Google/the cloud here should be really concerned with the timing they gave them, 24 hours notice to migrate. Industry standards would seem to be at least 30 days notice. Note this is not the police/courts coming to the host with notice that they are hosting illegal content but only the opinion of the provider that they don't want to host it.
I seem to recall a customer who was using provider IP space that sued and won an injunction circa 2004 against their provider allowing time to migrate. I remember reading the decision and was taken back by the decent grasp the judge had on BGP/IP space. I can see how this might be similar.
Many years ago I was CoLo'd at a facility which shut off the racks of a customer at 9am on a Monday after finding said customer had poached an employee from the provider and was intending to compete with services the CoLo offered. They physically disconnected the cross connects to these racks for this and banned the customer's employees from the facility. Their counsel even told the customer "any contract is voidable at any time". Basic planning for any company should ensure you never have all your eggs in one basket. Perhaps this was a bit dumb on the customers part, but they had a contract.
The cloud is just someone else's computer.. -- Bryan Fields
727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net
In article <64d1fe99-a464-8867-92d5-8b13549635f2@bryanfields.net> you write:
1. When should a contracted provider be able to discontinue service with little to no notice to the customer if they find their content distasteful?
Whatever the contract says, of course.
2. Where do we expect legit insurrections to communicate? Should AWS/Facebook/Twitter boot those calling for violent uprisings in Hong Kong (for example).
Until you can give us a bright line definition of what is a "legit" insurrection and what isn't, and a legal theory under which providers are required to accept customers they don't want*, I don't think that is our problem to solve. R's, John * - outside existing laws about discriminating by race, etc.
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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.
https://youtu.be/isMm2vF4uFs?t=281 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
God I miss that man! On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:28 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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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.
https://youtu.be/isMm2vF4uFs?t=281 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
* sronan@ronan-online.com (sronan@ronan-online.com) [Sun 10 Jan 2021, 14:46 CET]:
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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
Didn't that ship sail when they booted WikiLeaks off their platform? -- Niels.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 04:32:29PM +0100, niels=nanog@bakker.net wrote:
* sronan@ronan-online.com (sronan@ronan-online.com) [Sun 10 Jan 2021, 14:46 CET]:
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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
Didn't that ship sail when they booted WikiLeaks off their platform?
-- Niels.
Yeah, pretty much. See, the real issue here is AUPs which initially were used to make sure users knew that their services could not be used to facilitate illegal things and then used to keep order on the platforms by restricting abusive behavior. However the definition of "abusive" has now been extended so greatly and with constantly changing rules that it's making the statement, effectively, "if we don't like what you say, or if we don't like you or your business, sucks to be you." Editorializing without labeling it as edititorializing. At some point, that breaks down. It has to. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard web@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
* web@typo.org (Wayne Bouchard) [Sun 10 Jan 2021, 16:40 CET]:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 04:32:29PM +0100, niels=nanog@bakker.net wrote:
* sronan@ronan-online.com (sronan@ronan-online.com) [Sun 10 Jan 2021, 14:46 CET]:
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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
Didn't that ship sail when they booted WikiLeaks off their platform?
Yeah, pretty much.
See, the real issue here is AUPs which initially were used to make sure users knew that their services could not be used to facilitate illegal things and then used to keep order on the platforms by restricting abusive behavior. However the definition of "abusive" has now been extended so greatly and with constantly changing rules that it's making the statement, effectively, "if we don't like what you say, or if we don't like you or your business, sucks to be you."
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&Cs against abusive behaviour where this used to be perfectly fine a year ago. (That was sarcasm.) -- Niels.
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&Cs 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 Nazi's. -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision.
They’re a private company. The same statues that give providers the right to refuse spam and block abuse give them the right to fire customers for whatever reason they want. If their contract with Parler says they can be terminated for violations of TOS / AUP or (more likely) for any reason Amazon decides, then it’s a done deal. ‘Frea Speeks’ as we liked to joking call it when spammers made the claim, is a govt thing. Private businesses aren’t bound by the 1st amendment. Sent from my iPad
On Jan 10, 2021, at 6:44 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio... Regards, Bill HErrin
Unless the courts rule or the legislators enact legislation making them a public utility. In legal circles there is a theory that platforms like Facebook, messaging services, etc. might achieve such importance to public life and discourse as to merit regulation under the grounds they are an essential utility. I am neutral regarding this idea - I have not studied it and also realize that Amazon is not strictly speaking a social media. So my point is tangential. 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. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+rod.beck=unitedcablecompany.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Brielle <bruns@2mbit.com> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 5:20 PM To: sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@ronan-online.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Parler They’re a private company. The same statues that give providers the right to refuse spam and block abuse give them the right to fire customers for whatever reason they want. If their contract with Parler says they can be terminated for violations of TOS / AUP or (more likely) for any reason Amazon decides, then it’s a done deal. ‘Frea Speeks’ as we liked to joking call it when spammers made the claim, is a govt thing. Private businesses aren’t bound by the 1st amendment. Sent from my iPad
On Jan 10, 2021, at 6:44 AM, sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio... Regards, Bill HErrin
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.
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.) Has anyone seen a rabbit? We've traveled quite a way down the rabbit hole. -- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:58 PM Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> 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 free speech and the garbage flowing through our social streets.
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.)
Has anyone seen a rabbit? We've traveled quite a way down the rabbit hole.
A civil discourse filled rabbit hole, and I am happy to have gone down it. Lost is the art of Civil Discourse sometimes, at least not here?
-- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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 from passing laws which constitute "prior restraint". It does nothing with respect to anyone other then the "Government" and its agents. You are also incorrect. Freedom of Speech is Absolute. There is no prior restraint which precludes you from "(fire, crowded theatre, etc.)" whatever that means. That does not mean that speech does not have "consequences". The first amendment only protects against prior restraint, it does not protect against the suffering of consequences. And of course "consequences" come AFTER the speech, not BEFORE the speech. Furthermore your "(fire, crowded theater, etc.)" (whatever the hell that means) cannot, as a matter of fact, possibly justify any action taken prior to the so-called speech having been made as that would be an assumption of fact not in evidence (also known as a hypothetical question) and the courts do not rule on hypotheticals. If you do not understand the difference then perhaps you should be sentenced to death since you have a hand, and having a hand it could hold a gun, and since it could hold a gun, you could also murder someone. So therefore you should be put to death now as "prior restraint" to prevent you from committing murder. I am neither a lawyer nor a yankee doodle and I know these facts to be self-evident. -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision.
Oh, geez... I was going to ignore this thread, I really was. :( On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:13 PM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> 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 also not absolute (fire, crowded theater, etc.)
You are correct and incorrect. The First Amendment prohibits the Government from passing laws which constitute "prior restraint". It does nothing with respect to anyone other then the "Government" and its agents.
You are also incorrect. Freedom of Speech is Absolute. There is no prior restraint which precludes you from "(fire, crowded theatre, etc.)" whatever that means. That does not mean that speech does not have "consequences". The first amendment only protects against prior restraint, it does not protect against the suffering of consequences. And of course "consequences" come AFTER the speech, not BEFORE the speech.
Furthermore your "(fire, crowded theater, etc.)" (whatever the hell that means) cannot, as a matter of fact, possibly justify any action taken prior to the so-called speech having been made as that would be an assumption of fact not in evidence (also known as a hypothetical question) and the courts do not rule on hypotheticals. If you do not understand the difference then perhaps you should be sentenced to death since you have a hand, and having a hand it could hold a gun, and since it could hold a gun, you could also murder someone. So therefore you should be put to death now as "prior restraint" to prevent you from committing murder.
You're being dense. Private businesses can engage in prior restraint all they want. Airlines, for example, if they suspect you pose a risk to the other passengers on the flight, can refuse to take off while you are on the plane, or even turn the plane back around and land, and have you ejected. They don't have to wait until you've beaten up another passenger, tried to open a door mid-flight, or stabbed someone. To bring it closer to home, an ISP can refuse to provide service to someone they suspect is a spammer. They don't have to wait until the first spam is sent, they can exercise prior restraint and deny the entity service based simply on the suspicion they may be a spammer, and therefore not worth providing service to. I am neither a lawyer nor a yankee doodle and I know these facts to be
self-evident.
I am sorry to say your grasp of facts seems to be tenuous at best. :( Better luck in the next reality. Matt
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> 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 public must provide services to all the public. Courts have found such laws constitutional. Not to mention the plethora of common-law precedent in this area. You can set rules and enforce them but those rules can't arbitrarily exclude whole classes of people nor may they be applied capriciously. Businesses which post the sign that starts, "we reserve the right," are quite mistaken. If a customer is rejected and removed without good cause and thereby injured, a business can find itself on the losing end of a lawsuit. "No shirt, no shoes, no service," on the other hand, is entirely enforceable so long as that enforcement is consistent. The legal term "prior restraint" is even more narrowly focused. It refers only to blocking publication on the grounds that the material to be published is false or otherwise harmful. The government is almost never allowed to do so. Instead, remedies are available only after the material is published. With private organizations it gets much more complicated. No organization is compelled to publish anything. But then section 230 of the DMCA comes in and says: if you exercise editorial control over what's published then you are liable for any unlawful material which is published. More precisely, common law precedent says you're liable for what you publish. Section 230 grants immunity to organizations who _do not_ exercise editorial control. But what is editorial control? The courts have been all over the place on that one. Regards, Bill Herrin Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
In article <CAP-guGXi6wrRpCMu9CBC-GN+qB9GvRG9pvbNp+e7DTvo66KMzA@mail.gmail.com> you write:
With private organizations it gets much more complicated. No organization is compelled to publish anything. But then section 230 of the DMCA comes in and says: if you exercise editorial control over what's published then you are liable for any unlawful material which is published. ...
Sigh. This is false. 100% false. It is the exact opposite of what 47 USC 230 really says. Also, it's the CDA, not the DMCA. Please see the message I sent earlier today about section 230 and the links in it to material by actual lawyers explaining what the law does and does not say and do. R's, John
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:13 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
In article <CAP-guGXi6wrRpCMu9CBC-GN+qB9GvRG9pvbNp+e7DTvo66KMzA@mail.gmail.com> you write:
With private organizations it gets much more complicated. No organization is compelled to publish anything. But then section 230 of the DMCA comes in and says: if you exercise editorial control over what's published then you are liable for any unlawful material which is published. ...
Sigh. This is false. 100% false. It is the exact opposite of what 47 USC 230 really says. Also, it's the CDA, not the DMCA.
Hi John, I conflated some of the DMCA safe harbor stuff with the CDA publisher stuff. My bad. I stand by the gist of what I said which, while imprecise, is consistent with what you posted. The common law precedent is that publishers are liable for what they publish. Section 230 carves out the rules for when an online service is not a publisher (which is decidedly not "always"), and while I don't have the cases on the tip of my tongue, there have been some real post-CDA head scratchers where a court decided that an online service exercised sufficient control of the content to have made itself a publisher. That said, I encourage folks to refer to your message for the excellent quotes and references. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
In article <CAP-guGX0oWAbmvTM=icvAbLCH5GgjxEQw9-8HJ_KHFy0gVShzw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
Sigh. This is false. 100% false. It is the exact opposite of what 47 USC 230 really says. Also, it's the CDA, not the DMCA.
Hi John,
I conflated some of the DMCA safe harbor stuff with the CDA publisher stuff. My bad.
I stand by the gist of what I said which, while imprecise, is consistent with what you posted. The common law precedent is that publishers are liable for what they publish. Section 230 carves out the rules for when an online service is not a publisher (which is decidedly not "always"), and while I don't have the cases on the tip of my tongue, there have been some real post-CDA head scratchers where a court decided that an online service exercised sufficient control of the content to have made itself a publisher.
I have the case law and with all due respect, you are still wrong. The cases where the provider was liable are edge cases. In the 2008 Roommates case, an apartment matching service had a questionaire that asked demographic questions that landlords can't ask. and the court held that that asking users to provide the answers made them liable for the answers. Except four years later they ruled that roommates aren't landlords so never mind. The recent Malwarebytes case said (wrongly I believe) that the good faith filtering immunity doesn't apply when one antivirus program says another is a "potentially unwanted program." FOSTA/SESTA carved out an ill-defined hole for sex trafficing. For any sort of normal content moderation, Section 230 does what it says. R's, John
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 to run like hell unless they're law professors or very highly paid. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:53 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> 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 public must provide services to all the public. Courts have found such laws constitutional. Not to mention the plethora of common-law precedent in this area. You can set rules and enforce them but those rules can't arbitrarily exclude whole classes of people nor may they be applied capriciously.
...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. Colorado Civil Rights Commission*, 584 U.S. ___ (2018) Businesses which post the sign that starts, "we reserve the right,"
are quite mistaken. If a customer is rejected and removed without good cause and thereby injured, a business can find itself on the losing end of a lawsuit.
But if a customer is simply denied service based on a category that the business provider claims is against their religious beliefs, and no injury takes place, the courts have provided precedent in support of such exclusion.
"No shirt, no shoes, no service," on the other hand, is entirely enforceable so long as that enforcement is consistent.
The legal term "prior restraint" is even more narrowly focused. It refers only to blocking publication on the grounds that the material to be published is false or otherwise harmful. The government is almost never allowed to do so. Instead, remedies are available only after the material is published.
Fair enough; I used the phrase "prior restraint" in a completely amateur and inaccurate way to indicate a business taking action against a customer prior to actual harm being done.
With private organizations it gets much more complicated. No organization is compelled to publish anything. But then section 230 of the DMCA comes in and says: if you exercise editorial control over what's published then you are liable for any unlawful material which is published. More precisely, common law precedent says you're liable for what you publish. Section 230 grants immunity to organizations who _do not_ exercise editorial control. But what is editorial control? The courts have been all over the place on that one.
Amazon, Google, and Apple did not exercise editorial control over the content; they severed a customer relationship, which is well within the rights of any business. They didn't keep Parler on the platform, but say "you can't say the following words in any of your posts" -- which would have put them on shakier grounds; they simply said "sorry, we don't want you as a customer any longer." If you're my customer, and my terms of service allow me to terminate my relationship with you at any time for a list of reasons, then I can terminate my relationship with you at any time, based on those reasons. As ISPs, we depend on TOS clauses like that to allow us to terminate customers that are DDoSing others, are attacking others, are causing harm to others, are posting illegal content, etc. If you're notified of CSEI on your platform, removing access to it and turning it over to the FBI doesn't put you in jeopardy of violating section 230 immunity. You're not acting as a moderator of content, you're enforcing your terms of service and cooperating with law enforcement. If I kick a customer off because their check bounced, I'm not moderating their content, I'm severing my relationship with a customer for non-payment. Of course, I'm still a complete layman, and I bow to John Levine's *much* more nuanced and accurate explanation of the difference, which I've hopelessly mangled in this discussion. ^_^;;
Regards, Bill Herrin
Matt
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:46 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> 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. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)
Hi Matt, As I recall, the finding in Masterpiece Cakeshop was that the commission screwed up the execution of their process so badly that the result was void. Although both sides badly wanted the court to set a precedent around excluding customers on a religious basis, it did not do so. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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-crowd... . -A On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:59 PM Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> 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 free speech and the garbage flowing through our social streets.
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.)
Has anyone seen a rabbit? We've traveled quite a way down the rabbit hole.
-- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
In article <MWHPR13MB1742905824973AB606D9B80BE4AC0@MWHPR13MB1742.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> you write:
-=-=-=-=-=- Unless the courts rule or the legislators enact legislation making them a public utility. In legal circles there is a theory that platforms like Facebook, messaging services, etc. might achieve such importance to public life and discourse as to merit regulation under the grounds they are an essential utility. I am neutral regarding this idea - I have not studied it and also realize that Amazon is not strictly speaking a social media. So my point is tangential.
That is a dream of some factions, but it is not realistic. You can certainly make an argument that Google and Facebook are monopolies, but the remedies for that are to break them up or to require them to provide access to their competitors to some of their internal facilities, e.g., allow other ad networks to bid on and provide the ads that show up with your Google search or Facebook page. Utilities have tariffs under which everyone who orders the same kind of service gets the same service at the same price. I understand how to apply that to a railroad or a power company or a telephone company, but I do not understand how to apply it to a search engine or social media provider or online megastore and neither does anyone else. R's, John
Declare Facebook a public utility and eliminate advertising by replacing with a fee or what you call a tariff. Breaking up does not always work. Facebook is like a natural monopoly - people want one site to connect with all their 'friends'. No one is going to use several Facebooks as social media platform. They want one. Regards, Roderick. ________________________________ From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 11:57 PM To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Cc: Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> Subject: Re: not a utility, was Parler In article <MWHPR13MB1742905824973AB606D9B80BE4AC0@MWHPR13MB1742.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> you write:
-=-=-=-=-=- Unless the courts rule or the legislators enact legislation making them a public utility. In legal circles there is a theory that platforms like Facebook, messaging services, etc. might achieve such importance to public life and discourse as to merit regulation under the grounds they are an essential utility. I am neutral regarding this idea - I have not studied it and also realize that Amazon is not strictly speaking a social media. So my point is tangential.
That is a dream of some factions, but it is not realistic. You can certainly make an argument that Google and Facebook are monopolies, but the remedies for that are to break them up or to require them to provide access to their competitors to some of their internal facilities, e.g., allow other ad networks to bid on and provide the ads that show up with your Google search or Facebook page. Utilities have tariffs under which everyone who orders the same kind of service gets the same service at the same price. I understand how to apply that to a railroad or a power company or a telephone company, but I do not understand how to apply it to a search engine or social media provider or online megastore and neither does anyone else. R's, John
On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 12:19 +0000, Rod Beck wrote:
Declare Facebook a public utility and eliminate advertising by replacing with a fee or what you call a tariff. Breaking up does not always work. Facebook is like a natural monopoly - people want one site to connect with all their 'friends'. No one is going to use several Facebooks as social media platform. They want one.
"The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one." Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural distributed database too. But how to stop it - that is the question... Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D
----- On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:46 AM, Karl Auer kauer@biplane.com.au wrote: Hi,
"The DNS is a natural monopoly. People want one resolver so they can connect with all their 'sites'. No one is going to use several nameservers for domain name resolution. They want one."
Nah. The DNS is a natural distributed database, with authoritative data held by those with the most interest in its accuracy. But unlike DNS data, there is money in collecting all the facebooky things - IF you are allowed to sell them. Stop that, and Facebook is a natural distributed database too.
There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in DNS. According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new registrations. At an average of $15 per domain(2), that equals a market of $5.5 billion dollars. Now, that's of course pocket change compared to Facebook's $21.4 billion Q3 revenue(3), but still. And that's without all those alt-root con schemes. Thanks, Sabri (1) https://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/dnib/index.xhtml (2) https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/building-websites/domain-name-cost/ (3) https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/event-details/2020/Facebook-Q3-2020-...
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 4:23 AM Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote:
Declare Facebook a public utility and eliminate advertising by replacing with a fee or what you call a tariff. Breaking up does not always work. Facebook is like a natural monopoly - people want one site to connect with all their 'friends'. No one is going to use several Facebooks as social media platform. They want one.
Regards,
Roderick.
I think you would quickly find that Facebook became a much emptier place the moment you started charging standardized tariffs to access the service. How many people here would shell out $10/month to scroll endlessly through their timeline, or wall, or whatever facebook calls it these days? I don't even use Facebook for free these days; charging a tariff? Yeah, that's going to result in a ghost town pretty quickly. People want one *free* site to connect to all their friends. They've already learned that it's a non-starter trying to get their friends to join them on a platform that charges a monthly tariff. It's only a natural monopoly because the advertising is subsidizing the free nature of it. Take away the free aspect, and suddenly it's not a very natural monopoly at all. Matt
In article <695823102.10322.1610397074140.JavaMail.zimbra@cluecentral.net>, Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net> wrote:
"The DNS is a natural monopoly. ...
There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in DNS.
According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new registrations.
That's total registrations across all TLDs, not new registrations. Verisign is by far the largest registry with about 115M in .COM and 15M in .NET. I agree that the total annual revenue of the domain biz, add up everything from Verisign and Godaddy on down, is in the ballpark of $5 billion/year. By comparison, that's about what Google makes every 10 days or what Apple makes every week. Verisign is a highly profitable fish in a tiny pool. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
That's my understanding as well, from years of hosting email lists. As soon as one starts moderating, the rules change, and immunity goes away. It's one of my issues with the whole notion of rules-of-conduct on email lists - particularly when folks get on my case for not "moderating" language that some individual or other finds offensive (like not using requested pronouns). Some folks get REALLY irate when I refuse to play thought police - and it seems particularly bad when the issue is a minor one. I've almost gotten to the point of imposing a policy of "the only grounds for moderation or expulsion from this list are repeated complaints about the list host's lack of moderation." Sigh... Miles Fidelman sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
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On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
In article <469b70b8-b1f5-bef7-5c03-b1e5d8b2c0aa@meetinghouse.net> you write:
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That's my understanding as well, from years of hosting email lists. As soon as one starts moderating, the rules change, and immunity goes away.
Thanks for bringing it up, because that understanding is 100% completely WRONG. In 1995 a New York state court decided Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy. Stratton Oakmont was a stock broker, Prodigy was an early online service, and one of Prodigy's users posted a message that allegedly defamed Stratton Oakmont. The state court misinterpreted the earlier federal Cubby v. Compuserve and found that since Prodigy moderated its forums, it was a publisher and was responsible for the user's message. (Stratton Oakmont actually was a bunch of crooks, several of whom later went to jail, but by then this issue was long over.) In response the US Congress passed the widely misunderstood 47 USC 230, which has two significant sections. The first part 230(c)(1) says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." That means that if, for example, I sent a message here saying you'd just been fired for having unnatural relations with an underage sheep, you could sue me for libel, but you couldn't sue NANOG for carrying the message. The other section 230(c)(2) says "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of ... any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;" That means that if NANOG decided to that this list is about network management, not livestock management, and deleted my message, that still doesn't make them liable, even if there were other messages they didn't delete. Courts have interpreted "good faith" and "otherwise objectionable" very broadly, to include all sorts of moderation and spam filtering. So you are specifically allowed to moderate all you want, even if you do not do it perfectly. For reasons I do not fully understand, this simple law is wildly misinterpreted, including by a lot of members of Congress who should really know better. You don't have to take my word for this. Lots of actual lawyers have explained it. Here's Mike Godwin on Slate: https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/legal-scholars-mary-anne-franks-mike-go... And here's Eric Goldman, a law professor who has been writing about technology law for a long time: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/01/new-op-ed-people-who-understan... https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/07/want-to-learn-more-about-secti... R's, John PS: with respect to Parler, it means that while Amazon wasn't responsible for the sewage flowing through Parler, it was entirely allowed to turn it off at any time.
sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
I dunno, maybe think of it as a good behavior discount coupon. They're free to build out their own datacenters at their cost if they don't get that coupon. And them not talking to council is what would be astonishing. Mostly likely it's been on all of their radars for quite some time. It's not like it was a secret that it was an open sewer. Mike
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@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 suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
Surely everyone on this list, purportedly a network operators list, has to have at least heard of 47 USC Section 230... right?
In article <2ab9a074-bb67-4e75-1db1-2c7fff87f0c8@rollernet.us> you write:
sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@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
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: problem. Amazon is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content.
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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
Surely everyone on this list, purportedly a network operators list, has to have at least heard of 47 USC Section 230... right?
Unfortunately, you appear to be wildly overoptimistic.
* nick@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 sources?
Of course he hasn't. And Amazon's response filing clearly demonstrates that he was talking out of his ass. -- Niels.
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sronan@ronan-online.com <sronan@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 groups, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted.
Well, this oughtta be fun. ESR is on the "yes, that is what 230 says" side, and John Levine -- with what looked to me like good arguments and references -- is on the "no, that's entirely not what 230 says side. Gentlemen: go to your corners and come out fighting! Well, ok, disagreeing politely. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
In article <474FE6A6-9AA8-47A7-82C6-860A21B0E99D@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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
If this was in the US and it was after the CDA was passed in 1996, your lawyers were just wrong. Before that the case law was thin but Cubby vs Compuserve (which is more persuasive than Stratton Oakmont since it's a federal case) said that online services were like bookstores, not expected to know what was on every page unless it'd had been brought to their attention or they had some other reason they should have known. R's, John
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On Jan 10, 2021, at 3:24 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
In article <474FE6A6-9AA8-47A7-82C6-860A21B0E99D@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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter?
If this was in the US and it was after the CDA was passed in 1996, your lawyers were just wrong.
it is really annoying that you leave not the slightest clue to who the hell you are replying randy
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 sronan@ronan-online.com's email of 10 Jan 2021 08:42:56 -0500 His MUA set the "In-Reply-To" header, and thus it was referencing the Mesaage-ID of 474FE6A6-9AA8-47A7-82C6-860A21B0E99D@ronan-online.com of the email sronan sent. Most modern MUA's can process threads and make it really easy to read lists. This excludes outlook which doesn't set these headers and is basically impossible to use on any standard mailing lists for this and other reasons. I use Thunderbird and mutt, both support this threaded format. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net
On 1/10/21 10:33 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
In article <474FE6A6-9AA8-47A7-82C6-860A21B0E99D@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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? If this was in the US and it was after the CDA was passed in 1996, your lawyers were just wrong. it is really annoying that you leave not the slightest clue to who the hell you are replying
+1 Mike
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 Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 10:33 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
In article <474FE6A6-9AA8-47A7-82C6-860A21B0E99D@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, shouldn’t that same principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? If this was in the US and it was after the CDA was passed in 1996, your lawyers were just wrong. it is really annoying that you leave not the slightest clue to who the hell you are replying
+1
Mike
-- Sincerely, Jason W Kuehl Cell 920-419-8983 jason.w.kuehl@gmail.com
On January 10, 2021 at 08:42 sronan@ronan-online.com (sronan@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 could potentially open them up to liability if they fail to suspend any other customer who hosts objectionable content. To avoid that sort of thing I'd just send PITA's notice that we typically get (N) complaints per customer per (month or whatever.)
We have received $BIGNUM complaints and we are obliged to respond which involves staff time etc. We believe they are eliciting those excess complaints by their behavior so henceforth we will charge them (like $100/complaint response.) FYI for the recent period that would amount to $BIGBUX. They will also be responsible for any resulting legal expenses yaddie-yaddie. We have no obligation to extend them credit for this service so will need a retainer of (around 2x$BIGBUX) and future bills to be paid within (small N) days of posting. Failure to agree (agreement attached) and forward the requisite retainer by (date) will result in the end of our services for them and the closing of their account. P.S. I was actually paid about $1,000 once but usually that ended it, they either apologized and backed off (sometimes it was just aggressive advertisers), or closed their account / let it expire. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins? - Mike Bolitho On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:26 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
Why? This is extremely relevant to network operators and is not political at all.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:26 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
It has nothing to do with networking. Their decision was necessarily political. If you can specifically bring up an issue, beyond speculative, on how their new chosen CDN is somehow now causing congestion or routing issues on the public internet, then great. But as of now, that isn't even a thing. It's just best to leave it alone because it will devolve into chaos. - Mike Bolitho On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:54 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
Why? This is extremely relevant to network operators and is not political at all.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:26 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
NANOG is a group of Operators, discussion does not have to be about networking. I have already explained how this represents a significant issue for Network Operators.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:09 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
It has nothing to do with networking. Their decision was necessarily political. If you can specifically bring up an issue, beyond speculative, on how their new chosen CDN is somehow now causing congestion or routing issues on the public internet, then great. But as of now, that isn't even a thing. It's just best to leave it alone because it will devolve into chaos.
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:54 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote: Why? This is extremely relevant to network operators and is not political at all.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:26 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
It's not, and frankly it's disappointing to see people pushing an agenda here. Scott Helms On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:37 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
NANOG is a group of Operators, discussion does not have to be about networking. I have already explained how this represents a significant issue for Network Operators.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:09 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
It has nothing to do with networking. Their decision was necessarily political. If you can specifically bring up an issue, beyond speculative, on how their new chosen CDN is somehow now causing congestion or routing issues on the public internet, then great. But as of now, that isn't even a thing. It's just best to leave it alone because it will devolve into chaos.
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:54 AM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
Why? This is extremely relevant to network operators and is not political at all.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
- Mike Bolitho
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:26 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
On 1/10/21 16:09, Mike Bolitho wrote:
It has nothing to do with networking. Their decision was necessarily political. If you can specifically bring up an issue, beyond speculative, on how their new chosen CDN is somehow now causing congestion or routing issues on the public internet, then great. But as of now, that isn't even a thing. It's just best to leave it alone because it will devolve into chaos.
I think the days where engineers felt that they didn't need to understand (to some degree) what happened on the penthouse floor are dead & gone. If you haven't yet realized this, eish... Mark.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:43 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
Hi Mike, While there's certainly an opportunity to get political, there are some obviously apolitical issues worth discussing here as well. First, this would appear to be an illustration of the single-vendor problem. You don't have a credible continuity of operations plan if a termination by a single vendor can take you and keep you offline. It's the single point of failure that otherwise intelligent system architects fail to consider and address. But more than that, cloud providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction? Second, Amazon strongly encourages customers to build use of its proprietary services and APIs into the core of the customer's product. That's quite devastating when there's a need to change vendors. Parler's CEO described Amazon's action as requiring them to "rebuild from scratch," so I wonder just how tightly tied to such Amazon APIs they actually are. And if there isn't a lesson there for the rest of us. These two issues, at least, are technical in nature and on topic for this forum. You may choose not to discuss them if they don't interest you, of course. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction?
HashiCorp Nomad plus Terraform. That's pretty much it. I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most. -- Töma
You can certainly build platform agnostic applications on top of AWS/Google/etc. but it requires more “work”. Using a platform like OpenShift from Red Hat is one solution. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:
Peace,
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction?
HashiCorp Nomad plus Terraform. That's pretty much it.
I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most.
-- Töma
On 1/10/21 9:55 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
Peace,
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction? HashiCorp Nomad plus Terraform. That's pretty much it.
I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most.
At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only supported Chef on the spin-up side, but it showed that you could move things pretty quickly if need be. I hadn't considered this as a use case though. Mike
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:18 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only supported Chef on the spin-up side, but it showed that you could move things pretty quickly if need be.
That's not just the provisioning, you also need an independent cluster management and scheduling (hence Nomad). But yes. -- Töma
On 1/10/21 10:24 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
Peace,
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:18 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only supported Chef on the spin-up side, but it showed that you could move things pretty quickly if need be. That's not just the provisioning, you also need an independent cluster management and scheduling (hence Nomad). But yes.
The real point of the tool was to capture all of those architectural features so they could be compared and contrasted. Some of them are fungible, some of them are not. Knowing the non-fungible ones gives you a window into lock ins. Mike
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:55 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most.
Hi Töma, 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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:22 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> 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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck.
Considering that AWS (or any cloud provider whatsoever) has a public track record of losing data irretrievably, one would argue that integrating their data storage products too deep into your application isn't the wisest of ideas anyway. -- Töma
On 1/10/21 10:21 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:55 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most. Hi Töma,
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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck.
Is RDS based on something else? I find it hard to believe that they wrote a rdb from scratch. But yes, once they own your db they own you. I've looked before how to migrate from mysql to postgres and was shocked at how little there seems to be out there to even do even the easier stuff let alone the proprietary extensions. Mike
They have Amazon Aurora versions of many popular databases which are binary compatible with the standard versions. So you can run standard Postgres on one cloud and Aurora Postgres in AWS. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/10/21 10:21 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:55 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote: I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take days at most. Hi Töma,
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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck.
Is RDS based on something else? I find it hard to believe that they wrote a rdb from scratch. But yes, once they own your db they own you. I've looked before how to migrate from mysql to postgres and was shocked at how little there seems to be out there to even do even the easier stuff let alone the proprietary extensions.
Mike
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:32 PM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> 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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck.
Is RDS based on something else? I find it hard to believe that they wrote a rdb from scratch. But yes, once they own your db they own you. I've looked before how to migrate from mysql to postgres and was shocked at how little there seems to be out there to even do even the easier stuff let alone the proprietary extensions.
They have Amazon Aurora versions of many popular databases which are binary compatible with the standard versions. So you can run standard Postgres on one cloud and Aurora Postgres in AWS.
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? Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:32 PM <sronan@ronan-online.com> wrote:
On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> 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 long as you install your own database software in both, you can do that. But if you want to leverage AWS' RDS products too, you're mostly out of luck.
Is RDS based on something else? I find it hard to believe that they wrote a rdb from scratch. But yes, once they own your db they own you. I've looked before how to migrate from mysql to postgres and was shocked at how little there seems to be out there to even do even the easier stuff let alone the proprietary extensions.
They have Amazon Aurora versions of many popular databases which are binary compatible with the standard versions. So you can run standard Postgres on one cloud and Aurora Postgres in AWS.
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?
Regards, Bill Herrin
-- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 services screams LOCK IN. Does anybody know what the supposed value of this lock in is? Mike, wondering whether there exists database repair people like when my toilet explodes
On 1/10/21 9:36 AM, William Herrin wrote:
First, this would appear to be an illustration of the single-vendor problem. You don't have a credible continuity of operations plan if a termination by a single vendor can take you and keep you offline. It's the single point of failure that otherwise intelligent system architects fail to consider and address. But more than that, cloud providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction?
I suppose it depends on how distributed your system design is. You certainly don't want to be running low latency necessary storage in one provider and servers in another. But you certainly need to architect for multi-region, and it seems to me that's the place to make the cut for cross provider as well. But AWS does have one incentive on the networking front: they want to peel off computing with corpro data centers which means they need to integrate with high speed vpn's and the like. Maybe somebody knows whether the likes of AWS and others are considered to be inside the corpro perimeter and how that works in a multi-tenancy world.
Second, Amazon strongly encourages customers to build use of its proprietary services and APIs into the core of the customer's product. That's quite devastating when there's a need to change vendors. Parler's CEO described Amazon's action as requiring them to "rebuild from scratch," so I wonder just how tightly tied to such Amazon APIs they actually are. And if there isn't a lesson there for the rest of us.
Yes, it's been obvious to anybody who's only paying even a little attention that AWS is trying to be build a walled garden. It always surprises me how little people take into consideration that that almost never ends well for the people lured into the garden. As it ever were, I guess. I guess the lesson is that if you're sketch consider portability. If you're not sketch, consider portability anyway. Mike
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:09 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
Yes, it's been obvious to anybody who's only paying even a little attention that AWS is trying to be build a walled garden.
In my experience, moving off Amazon services isn't that much of a trouble, especially if compared to moving off Azure. Cloud Active Directory + Sentinel + PowerBI — and boom, your company is with Azure for life. -- Töma
Moving any service to bare metal is not that much of an issue. With some work, it can be accomplished. What is really hard is performance, scalability, reliability. This in my opinion is what AWS and cloud providers provide. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:21 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:
Peace,
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:09 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
Yes, it's been obvious to anybody who's only paying even a little attention that AWS is trying to be build a walled garden.
In my experience, moving off Amazon services isn't that much of a trouble, especially if compared to moving off Azure. Cloud Active Directory + Sentinel + PowerBI — and boom, your company is with Azure for life.
-- Töma
On 1/10/21 10:17 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
Peace,
Yes, it's been obvious to anybody who's only paying even a little attention that AWS is trying to be build a walled garden. In my experience, moving off Amazon services isn't that much of a
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:09 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote: trouble, especially if compared to moving off Azure. Cloud Active Directory + Sentinel + PowerBI — and boom, your company is with Azure for life.
To be fair, they all want walled gardens. And there are plenty of junior engineers attracted to shiny new things that people need to keep an eye on. Mike
From a business perspective, this clearly helps us understand risk of a single point of failure. Basic ORM tell us What is the Damage if it occurs, how likely is it to occur and then accept, mitigate or transfer.
For example in another life, I was responsible for the 'last mile' for a private city which included fiber in the road. We started to look at pop diversity (small private city that was near 2 pops, rare but happens). Instead we went with a pre negotiated contract with our fiber provider and accepted a 24 hour outage knowing that our Fiber provider was on emergency stand by if needed. They'd roll a truck and would have us back up within 24 hours (likely faster). The risk process included "How often do we have an actual fiber cut in the road." It had happened in the past, but the private city owned the roads and road crew, so new communications procedures were put in place and it had not happened since. I agree with Bill. This is a business problem. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:39 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:43 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
Hi Mike,
While there's certainly an opportunity to get political, there are some obviously apolitical issues worth discussing here as well.
First, this would appear to be an illustration of the single-vendor problem. You don't have a credible continuity of operations plan if a termination by a single vendor can take you and keep you offline. It's the single point of failure that otherwise intelligent system architects fail to consider and address. But more than that, cloud providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction?
Second, Amazon strongly encourages customers to build use of its proprietary services and APIs into the core of the customer's product. That's quite devastating when there's a need to change vendors. Parler's CEO described Amazon's action as requiring them to "rebuild from scratch," so I wonder just how tightly tied to such Amazon APIs they actually are. And if there isn't a lesson there for the rest of us.
These two issues, at least, are technical in nature and on topic for this forum. You may choose not to discuss them if they don't interest you, of course.
Regards, Bill Herrin
-- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
Given that people on Parler are currently discussing/planning attacks against Amazon/Google/Apple/etc.'s facilities and personnel, this seems wise. ---rsk
Well then... that’s a rather disturbing revelation. Out of curiosity, do these big facilities have armed guards of some sort, especially if the facility hosts financial or govt sites? Sent from my iPad
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
Given that people on Parler are currently discussing/planning attacks against Amazon/Google/Apple/etc.'s facilities and personnel, this seems wise.
---rsk
Some yes, some no. Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Brielle <bruns@2mbit.com> wrote:
Well then... that’s a rather disturbing revelation.
Out of curiosity, do these big facilities have armed guards of some sort, especially if the facility hosts financial or govt sites?
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
Given that people on Parler are currently discussing/planning attacks against Amazon/Google/Apple/etc.'s facilities and personnel, this seems wise.
---rsk
Yeah that still hits my “fuck directly off” button. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO ben@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.
On Jan 10, 2021, at 9:00 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
Given that people on Parler are currently discussing/planning attacks against Amazon/Google/Apple/etc.'s facilities and personnel, this seems wise.
---rsk
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. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70 $ whois 52.55.168.70 ... OrgName: Amazon Technologies Inc. and for the curious, ns4.epik.com is hosted by an Epik sub, but from a cursory glance appears to be single-homed to CDN77, which is vaguely surprising to me. Matt On 1/10/21 3:23 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
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 course, Amazon could ding Epik for being Parler's registrar, but that would truly be a reach, since they aren't Parler's Web host. -- Hunter Fuller (they) Router Jockey VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Network Engineering On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:42 PM Matt Corallo <nanog@as397444.net> wrote:
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. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70
$ whois 52.55.168.70 ... OrgName: Amazon Technologies Inc.
and for the curious, ns4.epik.com is hosted by an Epik sub, but from a cursory glance appears to be single-homed to CDN77, which is vaguely surprising to me.
Matt
On 1/10/21 3:23 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
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 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 course, Amazon could ding Epik for being Parler's registrar, but that would truly be a reach, since they aren't Parler's Web host.
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Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Network Engineering
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:42 PM Matt Corallo <nanog@as397444.net> wrote:
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. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70
$ whois 52.55.168.70 ... OrgName: Amazon Technologies Inc.
and for the curious, ns4.epik.com is hosted by an Epik sub, but from a cursory glance appears to be single-homed to CDN77, which is vaguely surprising to me.
Matt
On 1/10/21 3:23 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
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 ns4.epik.com. parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70
It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> 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 52.55.168.70
It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
No, they were hosted on Route53 back on Sunday. Now they're hosted by Epik which implements their own DNS servers using the AWS infrastructure. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 domain, so it’s not as comparable as I understood it to be. Matt
On Jan 14, 2021, at 00:10, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> 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 52.55.168.70
It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
No, they were hosted on Route53 back on Sunday. Now they're hosted by Epik which implements their own DNS servers using the AWS infrastructure.
Regards, Bill Herrin
-- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM Matt Corallo <nanog@as397444.net> 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 will host the site, only providing registrar services for the domain, so it’s not as comparable as I understood it to be.
Hi Matt, I'm not sure I agree with characterizing DNS hosting as a registrar service. It makes sense to sell them together but they're not classically the same thing. Epik is also entangled with Clouthub which I hear is where Trump landed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 can avoid longer negative caching while they work on a real hosting deal. Matt
On Jan 14, 2021, at 00:29, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM Matt Corallo <nanog@as397444.net> 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 will host the site, only providing registrar services for the domain, so it’s not as comparable as I understood it to be.
Hi Matt,
I'm not sure I agree with characterizing DNS hosting as a registrar service. It makes sense to sell them together but they're not classically the same thing.
Epik is also entangled with Clouthub which I hear is where Trump landed.
Regards, Bill Herrin
-- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 whois.epik.com] [whois.epik.com] Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.epik.com Registrar URL: http://www.epik.com Registrar: Epik, Inc. Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@epik.com Name Server: NS3.EPIK.COM Name Server: NS4.EPIK.COM I'm not sure I agree with characterizing DNS hosting as a registrar service. It makes sense to sell them together but they're not classically the same thing. Epik is also entangled with Clouthub which I hear is where Trump landed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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 caught wind of this and is watching closely. I just checked, and both listed servers are returning an A record for parler, although its bogus info (probably meant as a place holder with low TTL so no one caches an nxdomain).
$ dig parler.com ns ...
parler.com.300INNSns4.epik.com. parler.com.300INNSns3.epik.com. ... ns3.epik.com.108450INA52.55.168.70
It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
Hi, This is just their DNS, parler.com itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 1/14/21 12:02 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
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. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70 It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
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 up the "internet death penalty" even further at this point, barring any major ISPs coming out and saying they'll block it from transiting their networks. Again, more whack-a-mole, and arguably a more serious precedent to set as Verisign isn't the only TLD registrar. -Matt On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:24 AM Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> wrote:
Hi,
This is just their DNS, parler.com itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now.
----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443
On 1/14/21 12:02 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
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 ns4.epik.com.parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. ...ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70
It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.
-- Matt Erculiani ERCUL-ARIN
Hi Matt, That’s not how it would be done. There is an EPP status serverHold (or, if issued by the registrar, clientHold), which removes a domain from DNS. This is used after arbitration or court decisions and for cases of abuse. I doubt however that Verisign would suspend Parler’s domain. Matthias Merkel Staclar, Inc. From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+matthias.merkel=staclar.com@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Matt Erculiani Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:46 To: ahebert@pubnix.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Parler 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 up the "internet death penalty" even further at this point, barring any major ISPs coming out and saying they'll block it from transiting their networks. Again, more whack-a-mole, and arguably a more serious precedent to set as Verisign isn't the only TLD registrar. -Matt On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:24 AM Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net<mailto:ahebert@pubnix.net>> wrote: Hi, This is just their DNS, parler.com<http://parler.com> itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net<mailto:ahebert@pubnix.net> PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 1/14/21 12:02 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: 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<http://parler.com> ns ... parler.com<http://parler.com>. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com<http://ns4.epik.com>. parler.com<http://parler.com>. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>. ... ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70 It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off. -- Matt Erculiani ERCUL-ARIN
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:47 AM Matt Erculiani <merculiani@gmail.com> 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 twelve different kinds of liability interfering without government sanction. Regards, Bill Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:41 PM Matt Corallo <nanog@as397444.net> 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 IP address managed by someone with a Russian email address. nslookup parler.com Name: parler.com Address: 190.115.31.151 whois 190.115.31.151 inetnum: 190.115.16.0/20 status: allocated aut-num: AS262254 owner: DDOS-GUARD CORP. ownerid: BZ-DALT-LACNIC responsible: Evgeniy Marchenko address: 1/2Miles Northern Highway, --, -- address: -- - Belize - BZ country: BZ phone: +7 928 2797045 owner-c: HUN8 tech-c: HUN8 abuse-c: HUN8 nic-hdl: HUN8 person: Huan Nadas e-mail: xengine@mail.ru address: Avenue Jorge Perez Concha, 712, - address: 090511 - Guayaquil - country: EC phone: +7 9282797045 [0000]
About this network: On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:27:10PM -0800, William Herrin wrote: [snip]
inetnum: 190.115.16.0/20 status: allocated aut-num: AS262254 owner: DDOS-GUARD CORP. ownerid: BZ-DALT-LACNIC responsible: Evgeniy Marchenko address: 1/2Miles Northern Highway, --, -- address: -- - Belize - BZ
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This one ended up in Junk. I guess you pasted too much domain names with "Junk" behaviours. 😉 I removed the domain names from this reply. Interesting list though. Thanks for sharing. Any others got that in their junk? Jean St-Laurent CISSP #634103 ddosTest me security inc site: https://ddostest.me email: jean@ddostest.me -----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest.me@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec Sent: January 21, 2021 8:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: DDOS-Guard [was: Parler] About this network: On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:27:10PM -0800, William Herrin wrote: [snip]
inetnum: 190.115.16.0/20 status: allocated aut-num: AS262254 owner: DDOS-GUARD CORP. ownerid: BZ-DALT-LACNIC responsible: Evgeniy Marchenko address: 1/2Miles Northern Highway, --, -- address: -- - Belize - BZ
[snip] I've taken a look at this /20 and recommend either firewalling it (bidrectionally) or null-routing it. It's loaded with scammy domains, many of which are typosquatting on Hulu, Roku, Netgear, ATT, Facebook, Norton, AOL, HP, Canon, SBC, Epson, Bitdefender, Rand-McNally, Roadrunner, McAfee, Magellan, Office365, Tomtom, Garmin, Webroot, Brother, Belkin, Linksys, and probably some others that I overlooked while eyeballing the list. Appended below is a partial list of domains. All of these either (a) are using nameservers in that /20 or (b) have A records that resolve to that /20 or (c) both, as of when I checked this week. Notes: (1) this list is likely only a subset of what's actually there and (2) h/t to Brian Krebs for cataloging some of these in a blog post. ---rsk
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 <nanog@as397444.net> wrote:
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. ... ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70
$ whois 52.55.168.70 ... OrgName: Amazon Technologies Inc.
and for the curious, ns4.epik.com is hosted by an Epik sub, but from a cursory glance appears to be single-homed to CDN77, which is vaguely surprising to me.
Matt
On 1/10/21 3:23 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspensio...
Regards, Bill HErrin
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. To be purely technically, cloud is an intelligent intermediate entity totally against the E2E principle and, thus, is the fundamental evil. Masataka Ohta
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Bill Woodcock
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