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Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: By now, of course, you're aware that the Verizon-owned Tumblr (which was bought by Yahoo, which was bought by Verizon and merged into "Oath" with AOL and other no longer relevant properties) has suddenly decided that nothing sexy is allowed on its servers. This took many by surprise because apparently a huge percentage of Tumblr was used by people to post somewhat racy content. Knowing that a bunch of content was about to disappear, the famed Archive Team sprung into action -- as they've done many times in the past. They set out to archive as much of the content on Tumblr that was set to be disappeared down the memory hole as possible... and it turns out that Verizon decided as a final "fuck you" to cut them off. Jason Scott, the mastermind behind the Archive Team announced over the weekend that Verizon appeared to be blocking their IPs. Thankfully, it didn't take long for the Archive Team to get past the blocks. Scott tweeted on Sunday: "why look at that the archiving of tumblr restarted how did that happen must be a bug surely a crack team of activist archivists didn't see an ip block as a small setback and then turned everything up to 11."
Huh? this is the most incomprehensible sentence since "Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?". Do I just need mode Covfefe?
Oh yeah I know: Pornhub, Youporn, Xvideos...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Come on, we mustn't let the wells for proliferating sexual exploitation go dry!
It should be the case that they get express permission from a site owner before archiving a site.
Or make it far easier than it currently is for a site to be deleted from the Archive.
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This article has about as much content as a mainstream print magazine. So many words, so little message. All I got out of this was, "People are angry about lack of porn backup. They're going to try and do something about it. Film at 11." Wake me up please, when "turned it up to 11" actually means something was accomplished.
Use a little common sense once in a while. --Book of Mooch Ch. 5 verse 14
Yes, the internet archive should be allowed to archive ALL AND EVERYTHING FOR ETERNITY
Without ever having to delete anything.
Clearly you wishing to make it easier makes you one of those shady individuals who has illegal activities to hide.
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OK. In a legal battle between legitimate archival of content, and the laws governing unauthorized computer system access, which one wins?
It is quite clear that Verizon DID NOT authorize the archivists to archive the data prior to the mass purge, as evidenced by the imposition of the IP blocking. As such, there is a strong case to be made that Archive.org was in contravention of the CFAA, and the workaround could be said to be a technical means of circumvention of that restriction of access (and thus, technically 'hacking', even though I REALLY hate to use such a word for such a simple solution.)
It is also quite clear that there is a cultural asset that was going to be removed, purely for PR reasons by Verizon-- which was in need of preservation, and the Archive.org folks acted to accomplish that preservation.
So... Which wins here? Just curious.
Good idea.
Let the dictators write the history books.
Archiving tumblr is just about the dumbest most pointless thing I can possibly imagine. That's like archiving pointless stupid crap that no one wants, likes, or uses that doesn't contribute anything meaningful good or useful to society. You'd be better off archiving soap operas.
My name is GayPK and I'm gay!! Woooooooo!
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They'll be gone just like the new myspace...
If you shoot your fans, they usually don't come back. at least not in the same traffic.
but maybe that was the point, a puritan company bought a product to kill.
What an utter fucking waste of bandwidth and storage.
The weirdos who started BSD once had one kernel. Then they kept fighting with each other until it was split between a half-dozen incompatible kernels. But of all the fragments, I'd say NetBSD is the worst. It is so far behind the times that it will never catch up. Some subsystems are sort of current, others are ancient and full of bit rot. And really, the number of real users of NetBSD can be counted as maybe 100 or 200 max. Bad shit, amigo. Bad shit.
It should be the case that they get express permission from a site owner before archiving a site.
Or make it far easier than it currently is for a site to be deleted from the Archive.
Plenty of sleazy journos who want to stealth-edit their articles agree with you.
In the old days, the internet was built on protocols. "Social media" mostly meant things like Usenet and IRC, and people hosted websites by spinning up an Apache instance that spoke HTTP and would serve their content to anyone who asked. And so there was never that big of a stink about censorship-by-nonprovision-of-services, since anyone could run an IRC server. Communities themselves were responsible for their own infrastructure. Don't like a particular IRC client? Use a different one. Don't like the folks who run a particular IRC server? Run your own.
But now that "I have apache running on a linux box in my basement hosting my blog" has given way to these "services", where communication platforms usually involve a for-profit company running all the infrastructure themselves in an opaque way. Aside from all the other issues that come from a corporate advertising-supported model, people are now learning that you can't trust these companies. The people I know who use tumblr as a primary means of communication are all going "gee, I wonder who else we can trust? We thought we could trust these folks."
But ... this isn't inevitable, and there's no reason that the next big thing in social networking can't be designed as an open protocol, with no central point of control -- a system where people may choose to provide the infrastructure required to power their Facegram or Instabook or whatever themselves, or (more likely) hire someone replaceable to do it for them. Open protocols can't be sold out and can't be owned.
Hardware capability is through the roof now. My smartphone has more storage, more processing power, and more bandwidth than the machines hosting IRC servers not that many years ago. There are no technical barriers to crowd-hosted social media.
people hosted websites by spinning up an Apache instance that spoke HTTP and would serve their content to anyone who asked. And so there was never that big of a stink about censorship-by-nonprovision-of-services
How did people become "anyone who asked" in the first place?
there's no reason that the next big thing in social networking can't be designed as an open protocol, with no central point of control
The IndieWeb community is trying to build a more protocol-centric social web. Each IndieWeb user registers a domain and buys hosting to hold his or her own posts, and IndieWeb sites use Webmention requests (similar to pingbacks) to notify other sites that replies have been posted. Right now, the biggest missing piece of IndieWeb is a recommendation engine to suggest related works by other authors.
Hardware capability is through the roof now.
IPv4 address space, by contrast, is not. Nor is IPv6 routing; I haven't seen evidence that an IPv6-only website can become successful in gaining and keeping readers.
My smartphone has more storage, more processing power, and more bandwidth than the machines hosting IRC servers not that many years ago.
But it's missing one thing: the ability to accept incoming connections on IPv4. Most cellular ISPs put their subscribers behind carrier-grade NAT, as do even home ISPs in some countries. These ISPs give the same public IP address to a whole neighborhood and will refuse to forward inbound port 443 on your neighborhood's IP address to your machine.
And around the same time Facebook prohibits even the slightest sexual innuendo. Is this all coincidence or is it a response to the SESTA?
Or make it far easier than it currently is for a site to be deleted from the Archive.
archive.org retroactively honors robots.txt. How much easier do you want?
"why look at that the archiving of tumblr restarted how did that happen must be a bug surely a crack team of activist archivists didn't see an ip block as a small setback and then turned everything up to 11."
Oh my god, if that got any more smug it'd start selling Apple products.
Where does the archive team host the content now?
Asking for a friend.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It was more akin to have a guard at the door telling people they would not be accepted in if they came from the direction from the local library, but it is open door for everybody else not coming from the direction of the library. Then the local librarian went past the house and came back from the other way and the guardsman left him in. Nothing illegal and nothing was broken.
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There needs to be some form of agreement what is meant to be persistent and what is meant to be ephemeral. The robots exclusion standard was a way of doing that, until the people at archive.org announced that they would ignore it and archive anyway. The alternative to a civilized agreement is that the majority of content will go "dark". Facebook is a good example of this. People no longer post their "blog" to the public. They mark everything private and only share with their friends. A radical archivist position means that there can be no ephemeral public information. As the stakes increase, many people find that they prefer to just take their communication private instead of living under the eternal scrutiny of having their online history archived. Radical archivists are killing the open web.
There was story yesterday about Facebook tracking location even after user opted-out of tracking.
Would this be in violation of the CFAA since they are using computer access to get information they were told not to get access to?
Could they be sued for this?
Hopefully they archive the relevant boards, then use the same mechanism for DDoS of Tumblr. Have the sysadmins swearing "oaths" about their new overlords at Verizon/Oath/Yahoo. If you can't play with it, you can at least break the toy so no one else can have it.
It appears to me that the advocates for the Tumblr porn ban are a coalition of religious conservatives and radical feminists. But whenever I've seen this theory mentioned, the feminists vocally deny it, and claim that, "Mainstream feminism is generally sex-positive".
I suspect that these denials are disingenuous. In fact, there is plenty of evidence of mainstream feminists advocating similar bans. For example, there was the Page 3 topless photo ban:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/has-the-sun-axed-page-3-topless-pictures
There was the Booth Babe ban:
https://kotaku.com/5916237/e3-makes-me-really-appreciate-the-pax-ban-on-booth-babes
And, of course, there is a very vocal anti-porn branch of femimism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Porn_Culture
I suspect that when somebody says that "Mainstream feminism is generally sex-positive," they're only supportive of a very specific, tightly-controlled, pro-feminist sort of sex.
Came here to post it, glad to see you raised that point. Sites can still take their ball and go home from the archive, but can't play Ministry of Truth and leave the content up.
Perhaps they are posting from an iPhone lol
No, it doesn't anymore. It used to, but that changed.
Radical archivists are killing the open web.
I know you're trolling, but fuck you anyway. We have a right to archive anything we see. Period! You're just posting fascist bullshit.
Holy Crap. A searchable list of 2.6million archived tumblr blogs: https://transfer.sh/13Aa3n/tum...
By trying to rid the internet of porn, Verizon may have given us the best source yet.
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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and hatred. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Censorship , business interest, and the demands of oppressive , hypersensitive, people with poor critical thinking skills is what's killing the web.
The only reason any of this is an issue is because of how they chose to allocate IP addresses when they first 'commercialized them', then because of internet bandwidth caps enforced by ISPs (starting with people like AOL and Earthlink, and moving on to formerly unlimited ISPs as either their upstream providers started charging more, or as it became impossible to get unlimited bandwidth connections.)
The real solution today is new backbones with flat allocations, similar to the older dedicated circuits of the telephone era, and pushing that no quota policy downstream so that the only restriction on internet bandwidth, both up and down, is based on actual traffic on a fairly queued allocation.
But we can't have that, because moar moniez! Really if everyone could get datacenter style unlimited bandwidth at home, at comparable rates, none of this would be an issue, as everyone could host their own if they so desired. But today the only people who can do that are living in places they will be in for 1-3 years (contract for a business class connection) and are paying 2-3x the price for asymmetric internet, or up to 10x for symmetric internet speeds, compared to their quota'd asymm/symm residential internet packages.
I know. I looked into it. Then I moved to Tor/I2P/CJDNS for my network accessable services. It may not guarantee anonymity or security, but it does guarantee network transparency and accessability almost anywhere in the world, which is more than IPv4 or IPv6 via clearnet carriers offers anymore.
Make the switch, we can start the social and technical aspects of a new internet today, and begin saying 'fuck you' to corporate ownership of our personal information.
I'm giving you information. It doesn't matter whether you believe it. It's happening anyway.
and it turns out that Verizon decided as a final "HUG you" to cut them off.
ftfy
You're the worst kind of asshole. You can't control your shit, so you need it cast from thine sight so you won't be tempted by the devil. You can fuck right off a cliff.
Verizon blocked their IPs, because they don't understand how the internet works. Which is pretty damned funny, considering they have bought a lot of it. LOL.
Next someone's going to tell me I can only watch a DVD in the country I bought it in. Sigh.
Tumblr some time ago provided a switch that would allow blog owners to set their blogs as explicit or exclude them from search results (the latter toggled on automatically if you activate the former, although if you wanted to remove your SFW blog from search you could do so).
Recently they disabled the ability to deactivate these toggles - once you opt out of search or mark your blog as 'explicit', it's permanent, the toggles grayed out. That is, unless you edit the HTML source (e.g. through built in dev tools of Firefox or Chrome) and remove the relevant 'disabled'. Submit the changes and your blog is SFW again.
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I'm giving you information.
No you're not. You're shoveling bullshit (trolling). And who cares if you don't like it? We have the right to archive anything put into public view, even if it's behind a login screen. So again, go fuck yourself
You don't get it. Much of what would have been public won't be. It will be private communication. No, you don't have the right to archive that, and it won't matter whether you have that right, because you won't ever see it. And it's already happening.
Perhaps you should stop looking at PICTURES of women and get out in the real world and actually talk to real ones? Face all the emotional pain and distress that that may cause you, and go through it. Eventually you may find a real woman who actually loves you, and you can actually make love to a real, living human being, who holds you and cares for you.
Alternatively, spend the rest of your life clicking and clicking through picture after picture, using the 'death grip' on your penis while you try to ejaculate for the third time in two hours, and become impotent due to looking at pornography. What could possibly go wrong? Masturbation is completely unnatural, and is the act of a desperate individual. I know, I was just like you. I haven't masturbated for over a year now, I have a real, living girlfriend.
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