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Re:4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hostin... by dymk on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:00PM (#19444921)
Because it shouldn’t. Why let a terrorist organization not only get away with a shooting, but also get away with taking down any service (which removes content like this swiftly) too?
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Re:4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hostin... by reaperducer on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:08PM (#19445021)
How do you define "swiftly?" I haven't been able to follow this as closely as I like, but what I read early on was that it was streaming on Facebook for 17 minutes, and then available as reposts for days afterward. If this is incorrect, help me out by providing the actual numbers.
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Re:4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hostin... by dymk on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:21PM (#19445182)
17 minutes to remove an offending stream, when literally millions of streams which are legitimate, sounds reasonable.
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Re:4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hostin... by CompanionCuuube on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:42PM (#19445406)
> available as reposts for days afterward
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Re:4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hostin... by dymk on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:49PM (#19445477)
Gonna need a source on that. It’s impressive how fast they handled it when probably tens of thousands of people are reposting the content with the express intent to get around spam filters and avoid manual review.

Should Aus block sms, WhatsApp, and iMessage because the content gets re-shared there too? Should they block Google because you can find links to the content there?

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