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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by bnralt on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:13PM (#32728097)
The average person is much, much more likely to get fired because of a Twitter mob than a Kiwi Farms mob. Twitter users got David Shor fired because he said riots often cause political blowback; Emmanuel Cafferty because someone saw him make an OK sign and got a Twitter mob riled up. Both stories here[1].

We can argue about the merits of free speech vs. the merits of cutting off all sites that enable harassment. But this isn't where we're at. At the moment, we're in a situation where sites that create some of the largest amounts of harassment are allowed to continue on just fine, while smaller sites are taken down after successful social media campaigns.

This isn't a principled stance against harassment that's evenly applied. It's selective enforcement directed by whoever has the largest online mob.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by systemvoltage on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:22AM (#32732803)
It has become increasingly clear over the recent years that there is no real rationality that we can apply here. You cannot reason about it. The foundational axioms have fallen off and eroded.
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