Terminating Service for 8Chan

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by tedivm on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:34PM (#20610670)

They've also removed sex worker websites (including a forum that was just sex workers talking to each other), but for some reason no one complains about it.

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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by Lazare on Sunday August 04, 2019 @11:13PM (#20610901)

I believe you'll find that this was driven by SESTA/FOSTA, rather than being a discretionary choice by Cloudflare, and if you hang out in the right circles, it gets complained about a lot. (EFF, ACLU, Wikimedia, and many more opposed it.)

I think it's unconstitutional and the worst thing to happen to the internet in many years, as well as one of the worst things to happen to civil liberties (which is a pretty high bar!). Unfortunately, it passed senate 97 votes to 2, which suggests legislative fixes will not be coming soon.

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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by roywiggins on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:47PM (#20610749)

Congress recently added sex work as an exception to CDA 230 protections, and every provider scrambled to nuke everything remotely related.

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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by mikeash on Sunday August 04, 2019 @11:00PM (#20610816)

That’s always the way. Censorship/moderation isn’t given a second thought when it’s just sex-related.

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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by im3w1l on Sunday August 04, 2019 @11:38PM (#20611050)

Interesting, never heard about that. Are there are other things too?

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