Reacting to public outcry by cutting off a legal stressor?

I just don't think it's that big a deal.

Being hosted on someone's private server is a privilege, not a right. As far as I know the host is legally responsible for the material they dispense.

In the abstract, I believe everybody should have access to web hosting. But upholding that mission is not the job of one private company.

Anyway, I guess "content-neutral" is an easier sell for most people than "We will 99 times out of 100 let you be even if you're pretty out-there, unless people start suing us about you and it's pretty plain to see you might be a degenerate force on the social internet, in which case yeah we'll tell you to beat it".

Like, it's not a power that should be exercised liberally. But be real. It's Kiwifarms. Businesses have a right to refuse service to recreational gangstalkers

Don't ransom all your eggs in one basket

Our whole testing center is down. This is inconvenient, but mainly it's amusing. I swear strangers are talking to each other more. I'm noticing people just sitting in the sun and relaxing. Nature is healing.

(Of course, plenty of people have also just finished their exams, so it's hard to know the cause.)

Any idea what data Instructure-and-also-now-ShinyHunters even purport to have beyond names, profile photos, pronouns, homework assignments, school communications, phone numbers, and email addresses?

i.e. What makes this threat so different from what any old data brokers have already scraped?

What leverage besides aura farming do the ShinyHunters really have?

All I can think of that's really valuable is passwords. And private communications in Canvas DMs. But if you're being at all intimate over your school email, that's kinda on you.

Anyway surely Instructure only stores user public keys or something?

Alternate history question: If they just sold the data, never revealed the hack, and didn't make a scene, from a customer perspective, how different would this be from business as usual?

Reagan speaks with grandfatherly warmth about the importance of finding a middle ground between reasonable safety regulations and progress. In the same clip, he mentioned not knowing of any group with as little influence on politics as business.

Dog convinces owner to let it off leash. The rhetoric that charmed Americans into letting down their guard, in miniature.