Internet Legislation is Eating the World
summary
Launch of Switter scales from a $15 VPS to a 16GB instance and a cobbled 10‑node cluster after 5,000 signups in 24 hours, then grows to 220,000 users handling 15 million requests/day and 18 TB/month. A hastily built hashtag page replaces Backpage after its FBI seizure; CloudFlare terminates service citing FOSTA/SESTA risk. Also ships an escort ad product called Tryst/Risq to fund the site without selling data.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Reddit Bans Subreddits Dedicated to Dark Web Drug Markets and Selling Guns
- 5:36FOSTA-SESTA fight online sex trafficking act & stop enabling sex trafficking act
- 5:52THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
- 6:36VAGUE LEGISLATION
- 6:59MAKES NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONSENSUAL SEX WORKERS AND SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
- 7:27CRIMINALISATION HURTS SEX WORKERS & SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
- 7:48EROSION OF TRUST IN SUPPORT SYSTEMS
- 8:08INCREASED VULNERABILITY
- 8:33ONLINE PLATFORMS ARE IMPORTANT TO THE SAFETY OF SEX WORKERS
- 8:47ENABLES SHARING OF SAFETY INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
- 9:05A CHILLING RESEARCH PAPER
- 9:26THAT'S THE OVERALL FEMALE HOMICIDE RATE.
- 10:07THIS LEGISLATION WASN'T REQUIRED.
- 10:31SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
- 12:24METADATA RETENTION LAWS
- 13:04THE ASSISTANCE AND ACCESS BILL #AABILL
- 13:15TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REQUEST TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NOTICE TECHNICAL CAPABILITY NOTICE
- 14:04EUROPEAN COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE ARTICLE 13
- 14:43YOUTUBE DIGITAL 'RIGHTS' MANAGEMENT ABUSE
- 17:44SUSTAINABLE SERVICES
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