Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing

Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by wwright on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:04PM (#20907570)

I didn’t say it wasn’t political, but it’s not just undesirable for immediate political reasons — it’s undesirable for nearly universally-agreed moral and ethical reasons. So implying it’s only inconvenient for politics is, in my opinion, misleading.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by the8472 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @06:49AM (#20909716)

The political tends to encompass or at least subsume the moral and ethical aspects, as I tried to allude to with the realpolitik aspect.

But again, this is just a tangent. The core argument is that it is best not to rely on providers that have the freedom to make political/moral decisions who they deal with because that freedom makes them susceptible to moral denial of service attacks. You are one moral outrage away from being deplatformed.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by wwright on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:47AM (#20910234)

I can see that mentality, but what I’m saying is that, personally, if I become a Nazi, I think I should be deplatformed.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by whenchamenia on Sunday September 08, 2019 @10:37AM (#20910816)

Then who decides what is a Nazi? Deplatforming someone for their speech makes them one in my book. How far down do we go?

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