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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by houstonn on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:17PM (#32793125)
There is an ongoing campaign to get a legal forum completely removed from the internet. A twitch and twitter mob managed to pressure parts of internet infrastructure like Cloudflare and hCaptcha to drop them mere days after the campaign began. Even Archive.org reneged on their core mission and have removed all records.

Archive.today is now under intense pressure to do the same because they still have a record of the thread that kicked off the whole campaign: https://archive.ph/uLpNt

The next step is pressuring ISPs. Do we still believe in net neutrality? At what point has this gone too far?

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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by stjohnswarts on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:24PM (#32793188)
do you mind sharing what the legal forum is? Also the internet is privately run (at least in the USA) and there is nothing keeping people from setting up a host and running their own forum there. If Gab can Truth social can stay up with all their calls-to-arms and domestic terrorism posts calling it "freedom of speech" I'm sure this forum can find a similar hosting service that allows anything.
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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by shitlord on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:24PM (#32795723)
They're probably talking about The Kiwi Farms, a site which has a lot of trouble finding a host or an ISP willing to tolerate them. They also have people petitioning foreign governments to seize their IP addresses.
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