8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by cortesoft on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:04PM (#20617438)

I think it is ridiculous to hold the position that you aren't allowed to block ANY content if you don't want to be held liable for things people say on your platform.

We can't hold a platform liable for content because it is technically impossible to perfectly block infringing content, so we realize it is unfair to hold platforms accountable.

However, this doesn't mean a platform can't make ANY effort to control what content is on their system without losing this protection. YouTube doesn't lose safe harbor protection just because they have contentid...

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by SlowRobotAhead on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:58PM (#20618203)

Why? Those publisher protections are directly modeled after the first amendment. This was literally the idea.

I didn't make this up, it's the entire intent of the system.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by cortesoft on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:18PM (#20619718)

If we are talking about the DMCA safe harbor stuff, which is what I was talking about, it was not modeled after the first amendment at all. What makes you think they were?

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