AOL outages and service status in Hamilton, Ohio

Problems in the last 24 hours in Hamilton, Ohio

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Hamilton, Ohio and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 8 minutes ago

  I hate digging into my credentials, but in the context of online child safety and child exploitation, they matter because governments and child safety lobbyists are railroading everyone with personal opinions based on dangerous ideology. Being a parent doesn't qualify me to say what actually works, what' doesn't, and what the cost is in relation to privacy. I've spent more years building standards, API services, filtering technologies, and content moderation techniques than just about anyone. Very few experts sit at the intersection of internet infrastructure, telecommunications, app security, child exploitation detection technology, and content classification and filtering; I'm one of them. People with my background are being entirely ignored by policymakers for a reason. We know what's technically possible, what's not, and the catastrophic costs of getting it wrong. Security isn't just at odds with convenience, it's almost always fundamentally at odds with privacy. I built my first website 30 years ago, and was introduced to online child safety and content moderation that same year, in 1996, when I joined AOL. At the time, I helped launch new technologies and ran global testing for the launch of AIM, AOL's instant messenger and the internet's first consumer instant messaging app. I co-founded the W3C standard for content labelling and web classification, and in 2004, co-invented the concept of classifying internet accounts (labelling them by risk, identity, or purpose). I foresaw that the future of online trust and safety required filtering accounts, not just websites and web pages. Features like Twitter's verified checkmark and LinkedIn's verification are implementations of this very idea - they just got it wrong. I've run operational calls with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the US Department of Justice on the automation of monitoring, detection and reporting, and I signed an MOU with NCMEC to help combat exploitation through browser software and mobile security services that my teams built for online child safety. The keyword tracking list Thorn shared with partners came from me over 15 years ago, inherited from a colleague who built it for CEOP while seconded from AOL. I also advised IWF. My team built the first child safety API service for mobile device OEMs, an even deeper kind of device-level scanning than Chat Control. Samsung was set to embed it in every device they sold, and Apple planned to put it in the settings of every iPhone, iPad, and Mac, around 1.3 billion devices between them. So I know what this kind of technology can and can't do on a phone, and I know what it costs in terms of end user privacy. Both deals drifted away because we were too early, one of the hardest things about being a tech founder. Years later, Samsung and Apple built parental controls so good that a parent can now block any app or website on a child's phone in a couple of minutes. When I was interviewed on BBC Newsnight 14 years ago, it was to demonstrate how bad parental controls were. Now I'm telling you they're as good as I could possibly hope for. Most leading security companies license my patents for in-app security, covering more than 50 categories of classification, including anti-phishing, malware, child abuse, pornography, and disinformation. Chat Control 2.0 mandates client-side scanning of links for apps like Signal. Luckily of Signal, they require my permission or face infringing in my patents. I'm *extremely* unlikely (read that as never) to license my patents for the purpose of government mandated censorship. I have declined governments in the past and I will do it again in the future.

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  Bill Bishop (@niubi) reported 10 minutes ago

  This pro-PRC model industry group from Silicon Valley is interesting but I think not thinking long-term. Why can’t the frontier labs do something like AOL did with its Greenhouse project and say OK, I will let you distill but we want equity in your company and/or a fee. AOL got equity for promotion/placement on the screen. (we committed 30+ million at MarketWatch, helped traffic and the ipo a lot, but worst company I have ever negotiated with). Anyway, apologies for the digression, but why couldn’t this be similar but for distillation access, and the labs like Anthropic and OpenAI could end up with a really interesting portfolio of companies, some of which might become quite valuable, and those smaller firms’ VCs could also benefit? Otherwise, does it really make sense for a huge swathe of the American technology industry to end up dependent on PRC models? Haven’t we learned any lessons from other industries where PRC firms have been able to come in at a very low cost with good products and effectively create dependencies that crowd at all other competitors? And now we are talking about the most transformative industry in many years, and it could be even worse if it’s built in part through some problematic practices in terms of distillation attacks and export control violations, if some of US government’s and frontier labs’ claims are true?

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  𝓁𝓊𝓂𝓅 🐱 (@louiswaincat) reported 10 minutes ago

  @quirkyloner I remember being an internet elitist at age 12 and looking down on AOL users (esp AOL chatrooms) as uncultured swine while I, an intellectual, used IRC for my chat needs. While also using AOL for my internet lol

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  Del Leonard Jones (@jonesdel) reported 10 minutes ago

  @HealthRanger Frontier models are marching down the AOL path. Let’s just hope they don’t drag too many down with them.

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  Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray (@SJ_Murray) reported 11 minutes ago

  @johnhboyer Lol. Think about this: it was started in 1987. Planning began in 1985, before the modern standard web browser existed. I remember thinking, when I learned shout it at Ga Tech, that it was wild that someone envisioned putting a library contacts online only 2 years after TCP/ IP protocol became standard. And before the www as we know it came into being (around 1989). Quantum Computing Service, founded the same year in 1985, didn’t even become AOL until 1991. Talk about vision!

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  𝔸𝕔𝕖♠️🇳🇬☠️ 3 KINGS WILL RISE🇧🇫🇳🇪🇲🇱👑👑👑 (@JohnnyACE562) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Ghfg32290189 Why not? Every merger they get into goes bad for a reason. AOL? AT&T? Discovery? Now this.

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  Alex Hernandez 🇺🇸 🚫 💉 (@ahernandez85a) reported 11 minutes ago

  @CNNEnemedia @VivaLaAmes11 My Dad had AOL but I never did I went right to Netcom from those trial disks they used to give out at Micro Center, so no chat rooms just email and web

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  Andrew DeBiasio (@AndrewDebiasio) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CherieCurrie3 Idiots. When I was on aol crackhead homeless people took mine out twice. Second time att took way to long to fix so I changed to the fiber and they installed in a day

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  O.W. Root (@owroot) reported 13 minutes ago

  This and a CD-ROM with 4,000 free hours of AOL would fix me.

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  Ben Monroe 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 (@BenMonroe1) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 Hit 19, I never had an AOL address, I could have but I didn't. A lot of those are the result of working in a law office though.