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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by wmf on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:01PM (#17729890)
Historically if you have your own AS number it's very very hard to get kicked off the Internet. But maybe Nazis are revolting enough to make it happen.
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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by moduspol on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:32PM (#17730028)
That misses the point.

As long as there is an ISP that can be publicly pressured to block the source of content, and the source of that content can be easily differentiated (to avoid blocking other content), we're one Twitter mob away from "existing on the Internet" not being enough to avoid censorship.

And it doesn't even need to be their ISP. It could be yours or mine.

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