Re:Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
by opportune on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:28PM
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Cloudfare is very different from an ISP.
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Re:Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
by huntie on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:47PM
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That's true, but it's a different thing. Blocking a site on ISP level prevents users from viewing the site as opposed to blocking creators from presenting the site. It's a subtle but important difference.
Also, according to Wikipedia over a few days the site had its domain registration revoked by several providers, its Youtube channel, Discord, and Twitter accounts were banned, its links were censored on Facebook, and it was DDOSed by Anonymous.[1] If you look at the Wikipedia link it's actually nuts how much effort was put into silencing the site.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting...