Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by kalaksi on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:45AM (#45012061)

And you just end up with poorly integrated moderation with extra steps when community starts cooperating to make it more efficient (e.g. maintaining filter lists). Or there's no effective moderation so people that want more curated content and better UX moderation-wise will move elsewhere. Nobody's forcing you to use moderated platforms either.

That said, I think the showdead setting in HN is good to have, so you can still opt to see content that would otherwise be filtered.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by account42 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:26AM (#45024614)

> Nobody's forcing you to use moderated platforms either.

Except that's exactly what is happening when the "moderation" is mandated by law. Which is the topic of discussion here.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by kalaksi on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:42AM (#45027240)

I think the GP was talking about usefulness of moderation in HN, Reddit, etc. in general. And parent was implying that filtering should exist only client-side (so no moderation by the platform), which I thought was unrealistic for some users that want moderation and who are then free to seek out more fitting platforms.

But yes, in a world where "moderation" is mandated by law, there'd be no alternatives.

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