News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service. Parent comment

Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by stale2002 on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:34PM (#20618620)
Hey, if you want to know the definition of censorship, it is right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by a government,[5] private institutions, and corporations."

This is the wikipedia definition of censorship, so that makes your definition wrong.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by hope-striker on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:28PM (#20621172)
Yes, but GP was specifically stating that no rights afforded by the United States government were trampled on in this case. This is, no doubt, censorship, but some questions are:

- did censoring 8chan significantly limit any sort of harmful behavior?

- is censoring 8chan "right"?

- does this merely hide the problem, preventing an open discussion?

- should CloudFlare, an entity with massive control of Internet infrastructure, really be acting as a moral arbiter? Or do we expect some kind of neutrality from them? Do our expectations matter?

[ Parent | on HN ]