Re:Blocking Kiwifarms
by topynate on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:45PM
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It is in America, for the most part. You can absolutely organize to harass people if the harassment is in the form of verbal abuse, for instance. Cloudflare is saying that something happened in the last few days on KF that was a genuine "emergency". I don't think this is just an excuse, actually – Prince seems unusually committed to honesty about this sort of thing. I presume people were organizing specific violent acts on KF, which is not "free speech" even in America.
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Re:Blocking Kiwifarms
by happyopossum on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:44PM
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Your second item isn’t even close to an illegal threat in the USA, it’s the loser equivalent of saying “mine is 12 inches”. It’s not true, never happened, and nobody believed them.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms
by JumpCrisscross on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:58PM
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> second item isn’t even close to an illegal threat in the USA
They said they called people to "plant bombs" where the woman was going and had posted "armed men...waiting" for her. That sounds an awful lot like "the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual" [1].
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms
by nostrebored on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:54PM
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Completely conjecture. Why do you assume good will from companies?
I don't. I'm going on what I think about Matthew Prince, who wrote the post we're talking about.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms
by halostatue on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:10PM
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Not conjecture. Documented evidence of KF users doxxing and making threats against people: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657982526702387...