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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by ceejayoz on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:48PM (#32731265)
> And "freedom of association" was also the excuse given by businesses to not serve black people in the South in the first place.

Sure, freedom of association goes both ways. We decided as a society to add protections for minority groups to prevent that sort of specific abuse. I don't think we'll do the same for Kiwifarms, and I'd argue that's the correct call.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by birdboy2000 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @06:22PM (#32743992)
I don't believe abuses are okay if you have more market power, and I don't believe they will stop with Kiwifarms, which was not the first victim of this phenomenon. I was active on an anarchist forum that died because Cloudflare pulled the plug on 8chan, which hosted said forum. You may want a world where a few companies decide what you can and can't say; I don't think I can afford to live in one.
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