8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by afiori on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:49PM (#20618759)

Something relevant here is that I believe that there is a significant amount of illegal speech on 8chan (or also twitter for that matter). Moving the discourse over to better enforcing current laws looks like an underestimated approach.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by spaginal on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:12AM (#20623834)

Clearly it is not illegal speech.

Regardless of that, is your solution to a decades old problem that pre dated the internet is to ban online forums that don’t tow approved narratives?

I think you will be incredibly disappointed in the results of your solution.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by afiori on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:45AM (#20623984)

There is illegal speech on many platforms. Twitter is used for doxing for example.

I do not like companies being the arbiters of good, but in this case (as far as CF is concerned [1]) I believe they did no wrong.

They clearly state that they should not be in the business of policing legal content they host, but also work hard to make sure they are not hosting illegal content. This way is better than a twitter-like approach where you only pay attention to high profile situations.

(In many senses twitter is doing a good job, but in other senses they (and their employees) have a strong political bias that bubbles up to how they enforce policies)

[1] https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8cha...

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