Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by afiori on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:22PM
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> Surely you'd have an issue if the government showed up at a businesses office with guns and forced the owner (at gunpoint!) to allow a nazi hate site to continue to exist on their platform.
Not the point, but even still what people are arguing against is mobs of internet users pressuring companies into political decisions.
Literally (as in figuratively) the people asking for banning the site are the one holding the owner at gunpoint asking for the termination of a business relationship.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by manigandham on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:11PM
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Nobody is arguing that. The companies have a right to do what they want. We’re saying it will solve nothing.
The PR benefits you're claiming only exist because it placates the very same people that make such an outrage and call for corporate action in the first place.
Surely you'd have an issue if the government showed up at a businesses office with guns and forced the owner (at gunpoint!) to allow a nazi hate site to continue to exist on their platform, eh? Cause that is what you are arguing for.