[liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

[Brad Beckett]

I have the ability to host such hostile sites. E-mail me with your budget
and I'll let you know what I can do.

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Respectfully,

Brad Beckett


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:26 PM, micah <micah at riseup.net> wrote:

> Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote:
> >
> >> I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial
> >> services.
> >
> > Look, free is distinctly unaffordable. If you need a dedicated
> > box somebody has got to pay for the hosting and remote hands.
> > Activists donating own resources are quite nice and cool
> > (heck, been there, done that) but ultimatively you can't
> > rely on them to be there if the shit hits it.
>
> Can't rely on them to be there for what exactly?
>
> Where is the liberatory technological element to recommending commercial
> services when they are more than happy when the "shit hits it" to bend
> over backwards for law enforcement without bothering even questioning if
> the request is even legal because that would cut into their profits?  I
> have to say I agree with ilf, this is pretty depressing for this list.
>
> How can anyone in good conscience recommend to activists commercial
> services whose primary goal is to optimize for the bottom line? You
> realize that when "the shit hits it" you can rely on them to not waste
> any of their money fighting for you. Not that it matters, because they
> are already deupitized data collection points for the police, building
> into their money-making schemes keeping as much logs as they possibily
> can to maximize profits from various advertising and surveillance
> efforts.
>
> And really, Cloudflare? Comon. After their willingness to roll over on
> the subpoena for Barret Brown and prentend that they were the internet's
> saviors by making up that whole thing about how they saved the internet
> from the biggest DDOS ever?
>
> This is an amazing statement: "free is distinctly unaffordable" -- what
> meaning of "free" are you using here?  There are other things that I'd
> pay *more* money for if it meant the kind of free that I'm thinking of
> was in play... But this is 'liberationtech', right? Is the only thing
> you are concerned about is being liberated from your money when doing
> tech things?
>
> The cognitive dissonance here is deafening.
>
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