> [the law is] very unsuited for [policing every bit of cheating, insults and lying]

100% agree. But since public shame and censure no longer work for limiting people's actions[1] that negatively affect others, what else do we have?

[1] And any time anyone tries, people scream "CANCEL CULTURE!!!!".

Worth noting that kiwifarms only negatively harms people who don't read it via the statoshistic terrorism mechanism.

Which would also apply to places like pre-Musk Twitter, reddit, tumblr and Facebook (and indeed every social media site), all of which have lead to targeted and sustained harassment of people, often for things they didn't actually do.

> things that used to be resolved via society and community censure

Hurricane declining to accept KiwiFarms' /36 into its BGP table is community censure.

And I think I agree that is the right level for this sort of thing to take place, even if I might disagree with both the specific decision and whether this sort of entity (monopoly level ISPs) should be able to make that decision.

What is the 'community' in this case? The entire globe, all Internet users?

On a local scale, 'community censure' may work well. But not so much on a global scale, where a few determined activists on the other side of the world can get a person fired, take away their Internet services, or even have their banking services removed, all over issues of 'speech', with no due process involved.

The community of network operators exchanging routes over BGP. Get yourself an ASN and some IP space and join us! At the end of the day, the Internet is a collection of independent networks, interconnected voluntarily when there is mutual benefit to doing so.

Community standards cannot exist in a diverse multicultural society because there no longer is a broad agreement on what those standards should be. Even things as basic as prohibitions on murder have various different "well, in this particular situation" exclusions that differ by culture. So anything that used to be community enforced now has to be elevated to legal enforcement, with some cultures disadvantaged and others favored by the choice of what the government will enforce on all regardless of individual cultural standards.

Or we can let different communities and cultures keep their different social norms and accept a bit of friction/"injustice" when people from one culture interact with another.