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Re:Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of fre... by incomingpain on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:47PM (#41583141)
I legitimately still have my HD-DVD writers(HP dvd630) in my tower right now. It hasnt been plugged in for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

But this censorship simply provoked people to analyze the censorship and it was way beyond. They were censoring all kinds of things silently. Shadow banning wasnt quite understood yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any place on the internet capable of fre... by diggan on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:55PM (#41583245)
Went to Wikipedia to confirm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Digg :

> In 2007 in the AACS encryption key controversy

> When Digg redesigned their website in 2010 the community revolted and used the platform to advertise a user migration to competitor Reddit

So while both seems to be classified as "user revolt", the redesign seems to be acknowledged as causing the migration to reddit. Of course, not 100% sure how accurate that is, but seems to match my own memory at least.

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