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If you're trying to throw out the baby with the bathwater, we'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that's not a good thing to do, no matter how bigoted the bathwater is. If you interpret that as "support for ... a cesspool of bigotry", well, sorry but that says more about your blinkered worldview than it does about anyone else.
> We'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that's not a good thing to do, no matter how bigoted the bathwater is. I understand what freedom of speech is. I've weighed the options and still can't see how you could defend that site. No need to be patronizing. In any case, the post has been flagged. You win.
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Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're trying to throw out the baby with the bathwater, we'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that's not a good thing to do, no matter how bigoted the bathwater is. If you interpret that as "support for ... a cesspool of bigotry", well, sorry but that says more about your blinkered worldview than it does about anyone else.
> We'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that's not a good thing to do, no matter how bigoted the bathwater is. I understand what freedom of speech is. I've weighed the options and still can't see how you could defend that site. No need to be patronizing. In any case, the post has been flagged. You win.
Nobody is defending the site, at least not on this thread.
Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that's not a good thing to do, no matter how bigoted the bathwater is. I understand what freedom of speech is. I've weighed the options and still can't see how you could defend that site. No need to be patronizing. In any case, the post has been flagged. You win.
> " ...how you could defend that site... " Nobody is defending the site, at least not on this thread.
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#35> What's the precedence set by continuing to do business with kiwifarms? Continuing to do business with Kiwifarms is an acknowledgement that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and any illegal activity such as swatting is the fault of the individual. Are Mark Zuckerberg and Meta responsible when people livestream murders or plan terrorist attacks using Facebook? Obviously no. Now I will acknowledge tha…
Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
#36I completely agree with you on this. It's wild how many posts go grey on here that call kiwifarms exactly what they are, a site whose purpose is harassment. Coordinated harassment. Off site harassment. They have people who aren't completely stupid who coordinate things less directly on the site but off the site just for situations like this where they could be like look nothing bad's happening on our website why are…
Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
#37I don't understand how people can get away with swatting. That seems like one of the biggest issues with situations like these. Shouldn't swatters get hunted down and thrown in prison?
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Re: Tell HN: Sites like Kiwifarms are destroying free speech
#40From removing the dislike button on youtube, mass censorship of comments, paypal and other payment providers refusing to do business with people they deem "problematic" and now this, it seems like the liberal west is only nominally liberal (don't even get me started on inane "ESG Scores"). It used to be the puritanical conservatives that were against everything and now it seems the pendulum has swung the other way. While I personally find kiwifarms and such sites to be utterly disgusting and revolting, their cancellation is yet another precedent set in what seems to be a nascent global hegemony that will eventually turn feudalistic.