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that's not how an archive should work. but perhaps Internet Archive is not an archive and it doesn't want to be one.
So if they scrape a kiddie porn site, they should keep that publicly available in perpetuity? That's not how the world works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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Popular endorsement of harassment to the point of suicide seems like a worse sign, personally. When it comes to threats to freedom of expression, I'm much more concerned about the religious right's abuse of government authority to censor education, ban books, and suppress the vote, than I am about private institutions taking steps to protect human life.
Private institutions have every right to stand behind whoever they choose. As a user, I have no intention of using Cloudflare because (even as a queer individual) I don't feel safe using a platform that would censor me if enough people were mad enough. I would much rather choose a platform that stands by their TOS as-written, instead of stepping in to arbitrate on a case-by-case basis. Cloudflare has ever right to op…
Whoa, I thought they were almost completely neutral to these sort of issues. I guess not.
[0] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eut3na/can_i_get_p...
This is ridiculous and has been a cascade of awful precedents for the Internet. This is legitimately an extremely bad sign of what's to come for the Internet's future.
Popular endorsement of harassment to the point of suicide seems like a worse sign, personally. When it comes to threats to freedom of expression, I'm much more concerned about the religious right's abuse of government authority to censor education, ban books, and suppress the vote, than I am about private institutions taking steps to protect human life.
Wikipedia link for some background — I hadn’t heard of this before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
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Private institutions have every right to stand behind whoever they choose. As a user, I have no intention of using Cloudflare because (even as a queer individual) I don't feel safe using a platform that would censor me if enough people were mad enough. I would much rather choose a platform that stands by their TOS as-written, instead of stepping in to arbitrate on a case-by-case basis. Cloudflare has ever right to op…
OK, but there is literally no business in the universe that won't drop you as a customer if you cause them enough trouble.
Failing all that, KiwiFarms doesn't need a business to stay afloat. The endgame for all of these so-called 'abusive platforms' is retreating to I2P/Tor, or another internet-adjacent network. To stop KiwiFarms from existing, you need to literally silence the people using it, not just shut down their clearnet website. Websites don't harass people, people do.
Can somebody explain the back story? What is Kiwi Farms?
this recent action seems to be related to their long-running beef with a particularly well-connected transgender, over being the primary location for documentation on questionable activities like shipping hormone replacement drugs to minors
Wikipedia link for some background — I hadn’t heard of this before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Wikipedia is reliable to non-controversial topics only. Anything controversial is taken over by one side of the argument and only information that confirms that groups bias is allowed on the page.
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So if they scrape a kiddie porn site, they should keep that publicly available in perpetuity? That's not how the world works.
This comparison summons the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...