Posted by Tiberium 1 day ago
Telegram also isnt device to device fully encrypted unless you use a more limited private chat and, as Telegram uses googles messaging service, so likely compromised to NSA anyway.
So if a court order is obtained in UAE then they will likely comply, but not from other countries?
Wasn’t long ago that they introduced extradition agreements so now it’s not a country anyone can hide in.
I'm not certain that's the case. Telegram has survived in large part because Durov is incredibly wealthy and can afford to shovel money into running the service more or less indefinitely. There's no obvious heir apparent.
I love how your solution isn't "country should decide for themselves and pass the law that suits them" but "let people that have nothing to do with that country take something away from them (sidenote: I also don't have nothing to do with that country)".
Drug abuse is a systematic problem, if telegram single-handedly enabling it to alarming rates, the solution should be at least to ban a tech stack. Otherwise it will get replaced in a seconds.
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Personal vendetta (i hate frank so i sabotaged his work), is also not censorship.
Could also be the result of a hack for ransom, which is also not censorship
Anyway, this is dumb. It probably is censorship, but i’m still gonna need a confirmation before i get mad about it.
Incidentally, taking down a domain used for short links doesn’t prevent speech or publication, since they have about 20 other domains that the same info is available at. Like how knocking over a newspaper box doesn’t censor the paper. So, by your own definition this isn’t censorship. Which is weird because it probably is censorship. Almost like your definition is bad.
GoDaddy could apply "clientHold" but not "serverHold"
So I can't imagine any serious organisation wanting to do business with them, unless they're a sleazy organisation themselves.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_GoDa...
If you are set on Namecheap anyway, Spaceship is a suggested replacement. It's run by Namecheap but with a new codebase.
FWIW, I have also never liked the name, but the name is just marketing. This should rank very low in your decision matrix, hopefully.
Otherwise just use which ever registrar is cheapest and who you think will handle any quirks or shenanigans that registries may do to domains you own, and which own system and processes hold high enough standard for you.
And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC.
The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains.
In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a private company called ID.me, whose domain name AND company name are now forever tied to the whims of the government of Montenegro.
It’s not really any different than this website we are now on being at the whim of the US government.
The government of Montenegro could, just like many other ccTLD, decide tomorrow that every registrant must be a citizen of Montenegro. Many countries do this today, and it is no big deal because it is the country of and ccTLD that dictate how their domains should be operated. They can raise prices by a factor of 100 if they wanted, decide on some form of ID for registration, or dictate that you must have a company located in the country. ICANN has no objection to any of that.
If the US justice system issued a warrant telling Verisign to do X, what do you think the courts would do to ICANN if they tried to actively stop X from happening? At best, they would be politely asked to stop, at worst, they would get felony charges for obstruction.
Every domain has a country. It's as if every non-ccTLD was actually underneath .us. For legacy reasons .com .org etc were grandfathered in. gTLDs are also under .us for corrupt reasons.
Why do you think t.me got taken down? Montenegro doesn’t care about Telegram.
That's because if they don't like your website being on your CDN, and they suspend your account, you'll lose your domain. If your domain is at Porkbun you can change it to point to a different IP address.
And avoid Cloudflare because they're centralising the internet.
If they don’t give you access, you can escalate to the ICANN.
I chose Porkbun because it's a small company with good prices, a good vibe, and all the tools that I need. Cloudflare was never going to be on the table because I don't want to feed the beast that is already swallowing the entire internet.
You need your domain registrar to be stable and predictable. Their profile is not that.
I wonder if the practice still exists.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting#Domain_name_fro...
Porkbun has been great so far. Easy to use, refreshingly minimal, and good prices.