AOL outages and service status in Westminster, Massachusetts

Problems in the last 24 hours in Westminster, Massachusetts

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Westminster, Massachusetts 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 5 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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  Eric H (@TesseractUnfold) reported 8 minutes ago

  @rhayadercompute -- When I worked customer service at a regional ISP around 2000, I tiled the walls of my cubicle with AOL discs. Ended up with one full wall and half of another covered. XD

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  matt stevens (@mattst73) reported 9 minutes ago

  @desthia2 This is the bottleneck problem AI is experiencing right now. It is like when AOL charge by the minute, then someone said unlimited internet. We need quantum computing to have a break though or enough data centers to handle. Selling compute capacity to other AI companies has screwed their own customers.

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  Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) reported 10 minutes ago

  LISTSERV Was The Place To Be In 1993! Just after dial up BBSs and just before USENET my X-like place where I went “viral” was LISTSERV. I was on over 1000 active lists. I of course was on forums on CompuServe and AOL, but LISTERV was push and not pull. It was magic! I would write there like I posted here today. There was zero spam and the highest IQs in the world just a list email away. In my Eudora archives (the best email client ever made) I have saved the results of all my lists saved. Before my tape find, I was happy I saved the Eudora in zipped PKG files. One LISTSERV I was on had 1000s of subscribers and it is where I learned of so many things months before it was news. In the 1990s I wrote the first known AI (expert system) for email, to produce a morning “Newspaper” digest I would actually have automatically printed out to read at breakfast. The AI would have knowledge of what I wanted and produced the summaries and headlines. It went viral on some of my lists I was on and it used Eudora mailbox files to access the data. Many like minded geeks like me used the software and one made a LISTSERV out of his output as a meta way to use what he called THE ULTIMATE NEWS LISTSERV. Since posting on my tapes yesterday two folks reached out to me to share their archives! I am not sure if there is overlap, but anyone with data like this, please let me know! Folks we have a mother-load here and I know we will find new data perhaps not seen since it bounced though LISTSERV. Your support made this happen. Thank you.

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  Pelo_dave1 (@PeloDave1) reported 10 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 19…..never had an aol account

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  Boni Blackstone (@BoniLBlackstone) reported 13 minutes ago

  @90sWWE 1997 "The year of the goose" Grey Goose for Tammy unfortunately. She's rotting in an Ocalla Florida prison for DUI vehicular homicide. 7th offense. No liscence, no insurance, boyfriends car. Sad story in this biz. Most DL'd AOL star to orange jumpsuit. -**** poster

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  maddy catgirlprostate (@catgirlprostate) reported 16 minutes ago

  @hzrnvm I am actually aware of this because there's a shocking amount of British pensioners who still have AOL email addresses and occasionally I need to help them set them up at work

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  Potna Dem $lim⛸⛸ (@NorthcydeSlim) reported 19 minutes ago

  Cut the **** these mfs still had cell phones and were still terminally online with AOL messenger, whoever runs this account is either too young or taking a piss trying to do revisionist history

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  Etheraider (@etheraider) reported 28 minutes ago

  Every trendy chain is basically trying to sell you their flavor of AOL, some training wheel, curated version of the internet. When in reality, the real unlock is the unbridled, uncensored, open-access network. $ETH

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  Yossarian’s Ghost (@RealSoCalBadger) reported 30 minutes ago

  @tylerblack32 @jaypo1961 It’s like the Bat Signal, doc. The message goes out on the MAGA idiot network and all the little MAGATS get their talking points downloaded to their AOL accounts.