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Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by Sargos »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #35
gorwell wrote: post #31

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Oh please. Usenet was a free speech platform. IRC was a free speech platform. The 90s internet was a free speech ecosystem and the prevailing ethos was anti censorship. And guess what? It wasn't an endless hellscape. It was great, mostly. We're just caught up in the middle of a moral panic and the church ladies from SNL have come out of the woodwork, flapping their arms about how everything is s/satanic/racist.

I remember both of those platforms having problems with disgusting illegal content.

It certainly wasn't a big enough deal to prevent everyone else from enjoying the platform. Things worked out. There were problems here and there but by and large people discussed most topics with each other civilly and the system worked without any central authority approving each post.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by criddell »

zkldi wrote: post #56
criddell wrote: post #28

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Their ToS say they will take it down if they feel like taking it down.

So it's not free speech?

It’s more free than some places online but definitely less free than standing on a box in the park and making a speech.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by ergot_vacation »

petre wrote: post #40

Well, it's promoted with anti vax puctures. Great.

People who agree with the mainstream, official line, government etc. don't need anti-censorship platforms. Your response to opening such a platform and seeing positions you hate should be "Excellent! It's working as it should!"

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Post by [deleted] »

ergot_vacation wrote: post #47
criddell wrote: post #41

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I'm not sure I would use the image of a slave owner when trying to make a point about freedom...

Your ideology is flawed. Human beings are not divided into two camps, "Good" and "Bad." You do not slice the pie in two and and discard everyone in the "Bad" camp. If you do, and do so honestly, you will find in short order that you have discarded everyone who ever lived, or ever will. Humans are complicated creatures with many flaws and nobilities. Because of Washington's actions in both the revolution and his presi…

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Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by Imnimo »

lazyeye wrote: post #39
Imnimo wrote: post #7

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They say it's "undeplatformable", but it's really just a way of screaming into the void because no one is going to want to dig through a pile of trash to find out what they're saying. I'd say it's a great win-win. They get to spout whatever they want, and no one has to hear it.

As compared to big tech which gets to "spout whatever they want" via censorship and controlling the discourse. And everyone has to hear it.

I mean that's the beauty of it. I get to choose whether I want to hear Twitter's version of discourse or NoFILTER's version, or neither. So when people I'm unlikely to want to listen to decide to go to NoFILTER, that's a win for me.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by walls »

0des wrote: post #58
spencerflem wrote: post #50

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voat, the free speech version of Reddit went down this path very quickly. Most forums don't tolerate obvious hate speech, so the people who want to do that have to go to places that promise 'no moderation'

So you're saying all I have to do to take down free speech is to shout racialisms incessantly?

You don't have to, the chuds will do it naturally.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by Nicksil »

zkldi wrote: post #20
cmatthieu wrote: post #2

Welcome to NoFILTER, the unstoppable, uncensorable, undeplatformable freedom of speech app. By design, this app allows you to spread your word without limits. This app and your articles reside on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized mesh network consisting of thousands of user nodes. There is no web server, no database, and no cloud; therefore, making this app and your content unstoppable and undepl…

What happens if someone uploads child pornography? Does it just stay there and everyone has to deal with looking at it?

>What happens if someone uploads child pornography?

That's illegal.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by lottin »

0des wrote: post #53
jandrese wrote: post #22

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That's the beauty of it, it doesn't. You can spam nonsense all day long. This is only a problem if you want people to actually read what you are posting.

I would challenge the downvoters of this comment to contribute an informed rebuttal. IPFS is just content-addressing+p2p. In the conventional sense it is similar in comparison to the greater internet. Joe Blow can be on his blog talking about blenders and mixing spoons all day and none of us have to know he exists until we follow the address to his content, thereby downloading it. Where IPFS takes this a step further…

The point is that hosting content uses resources, and resources are limited. Therefore, if nothing prevents it, an attacker could theoretically use up all the resources available, which would bring this supposedly unstoppable publishing platform to a stop. Yet, if they prevented it, it would be a kind of censorship, so the platform could not claim to be uncensorable.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by necessity_life »

Great work!

The one thing that sticks out to me as a 'flaw' in this app is how it is marketed. It might be better to market it under a 'normal' name as a great blogging app, which, by the way, is uncensorable, etc.

That might make it seem like a good alternative for the general public rather than just a safe haven for marginalized voices.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by rini17 »

ergot_vacation wrote: post #63
petre wrote: post #40

Well, it's promoted with anti vax puctures. Great.

People who agree with the mainstream, official line, government etc. don't need anti-censorship platforms. Your response to opening such a platform and seeing positions you hate should be "Excellent! It's working as it should!"

I'd say "works as it should" if there was evidence of actual human rights violations. They keep happening everywhere. Not conspirations without any trace of substance and airing grievances of privileged classes.

It's NOT that I disagree. Every now and then I do consider something nonmainstream credible enough to research deeper. Guess how such research ends up. Poorly.

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