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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by bitwize on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:27PM (#20905938)
It's not just supporting. Taking a neutral stance on censoring these things, or not being adequately proactive on hate speech, is now seen as condoning. You either censor your user base, or upstream will censor you. Gone are the days of "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." The new policy is "The net interprets wrongthink as noise and filters it out."
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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by wwright on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:01PM (#20907553)
It’s not censorship: they are not suppressing information, they just aren’t allowing their resources to be used to spread it.

It would be “censorship” if they actively antagonized any attempt to spread the information, such as by lawsuit or DMCA notice. They are just refusing to participate.

And given that the “information” is definitively known to be child pornography and violent white supremacy propaganda presented as news, I would personally say refusing to participate is the only responsible action.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by claudiawerner on Sunday September 08, 2019 @04:35PM (#20913252)
> Gone are the days of "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

But it's clear that it matters just what's being censored. Surely you wouldn't say the same trite clever-sounding hackerspeak if we're talking about censorship of threats, assault and child pornography, would you?

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