Been reading about 8chan and I going offline. I'm a bit conflicted. Yes it a cesspool of hate, but it's also censorship taking it down.
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@Wetrix just ban the shit boards
@skelltan true but wouldn't that still be censorship? I'm not saying I agree with anything they do or say, but they have the right to say it.
I think we as a society need to deal with the real problem. Why are those people in those boards the way they are.
@Wetrix yeah yeah true true true
@Wetrix IMHO a private company refusing to provide services to another organization is not censorship. A government calling for the takedown would be, but that is not the case.
@jonah it's not far off. Congress just summoned the admin/owner of 8chan.
@Wetrix @jonah Getting pulled before Congress for starting a forum that turned into a white supremacy memelord and terrorism mill isn’t really the same thing as prior restraint, it’s just Congress reminding peeps that even anons can be yoinked in front of national news cameras and grilled about their thinky-thing malfunctions if their peers make a hobby of running and gunning Americans down. Imagine how long 8chan would’ve lived had it been an ISIS forum openly applauding attacks on U.S. soil
@Wetrix @jonah I suspect if it’d been radicalized islamists on 8 Chan instead of radicalized racists quite a few of the posters there would have had Flowers By Irene vans parked in front of their homes on most days until the active cells were ID’d and shipped off to supermaxes and the site shut down. Believe it or not some speech is illegal in America (such as conspiring to murder people or encouraging an active shooter to kill even more people).
@jonah BTW we got another porn bot I blocked lol 😂
Any update if we're going invite only?
I think quality over quantity would be best. What do you think is best? 😊
@Wetrix
Have you ever blocked or muted anyone? Is that censorship?
@kot I have. But they're still free to say what they want so, not censorship.
@Wetrix If the government had done it, sure. But private citizens deciding they don’t want to support a thing and not allowing them to pay to be on their network - that feels different. And if you can’t find any private citizens anywhere in the world willing to let you pay to be on their network, that’s probably a telling sign.
@digicana this is true I agree. But the owner has now been summoned before congress, so we'll see what happens. Should be interesting although I doubt the owner will show up. He's American but lives in the Philippines.
@Wetrix Refusing to host people is not actively searching for their content, then threatening them with violence if they don't cease to continue spreading their content, which is censoring. Which also would be justified since their content ended up with mass shootings.