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Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power by ClangMan on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:52PM (#40383714)
He did correct the record on Byuu with a featured post on his forum and he talked about it in his podcast.

It was relatively recently, in the last few weeks if I recall.

Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power by amiga386 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:59PM (#40384835)
One of his forum users posted the official death report (from 2021) in April 2024. He came out of nowhere to announce that, yes, he already had that report, he obtained it last year, and words words words about how right he was to not even mention it until his hand was forced.

No "I'm sorry for leading everyone on this whole time" or "RIP Byuu" because the guy's a sociopath concerned mainly about the reputation of himself and his site. But even raging sociopaths don't deserve null-routing.

Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power by ranger_danger on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:21PM (#40386053)
Why don't you ask him about it instead of assuming an ulterior motive? I believe he did state that he could not verify if the records were real/accurate or not and questioned it himself, and only published it after that other user obtained one of the same documents via FOIA request (maybe this was enough "proof" that Josh's documents were likely genuine). I may not be 100% accurate on that but that's what I recall happening.
Re:Online Censorship's Institutional Power by thrwaway1234567 on Friday May 17, 2024 @06:48PM (#40394875)
It's believable that someone had a hard time verifying the legitimacy of the FOIA. But you have wonder why he wouldn't tell the forum about it or ask them for help in that.

It wouldn't be farfetched to assume hes acting in bad faith or deceptive, because null has acted that way in the past: https://old.reddit.com/r/keffals/comments/1bkp9my/proof_kf_h...