ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awful It Is

Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by EarlKing on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:44AM (#37317765)

The constitution doesn't say a lot of things. The constitution is not the whole of the law, any more than the bible is the whole of religion. At the end of the day I think we've reached a point where the majority of the proletariat believe that they have a natural right to the freedom of thought and expression, meaning that they should not be subject to acts of force or fraud by private parties to interfere with that right. Further, the same believe that anyone engaged in commerce with the public should function as a public accommodation and offer their services to all and sundry. This just happens to be a very inconvenient opinion for bourgeoisie imperialists intent on silencing the proletariat to maintain their death grip on society.

To put it simply: Maybe if you'd just let people gripe away in peace on their little gossip forums you wouldn't have so many problems in the world.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by chonkerz on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:12AM (#37318300)

>let people gripe away in peace on their little gossip forums

Funny way to describe "swatting campaigns and content that is illegal in many countries" but ok

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by EarlKing on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:19AM (#37318343)

> swatting campaigns

Do you have evidence that Null knew about people organizing these on KiwiFarms and openly endorsed them or at least tolerated them? Do you have anything to confer upon him some kind of liability for the actions of his users other than "I don't like him so fuck him"?

> illegal in many countries

No one cares whether it's illegal in any random country. Other countries ban lots of things for utterly cretinous reasons.

Attempting to characterize a gossip column as a "harassment" site isn't working. The EFF is openly commenting now because people like you who are pushing that narrative have failed, and have managed to piss off all the wrong people. You might want to consider rethinking your position.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by chonkerz on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:59PM (#37329049)

They post people's home addresses. Calling it gossip is a lie.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by EarlKing on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:17PM (#37331315)

Some people have posted home addresses... just like some people have posted child pornography on Twitter. Does that mean Twitter is responsible for their actions? That is the key point that none of you seem willing to touch because you're desperate to latch onto any pretext to see KiwiFarms removed from the Internet. What is it you're so desperate to hide? What is it on there that you don't want people to read?

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