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Re: Seattle-area provider becomes haven for online extremism after El Paso shooting

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I haven't used 8chan but I doubt 100% of their content is hateful content. I also doubt most of their users are hateful... If you penalize and normalize website censorship because of bad actors then what's to stop a big company from barraging a smaller site with malicious users to get it taken down thus removing competition? It's a dangerous game to play if anything. You can only do so much with the money you have. I…

> If you penalize and normalize website censorship because of bad actors then what's to stop a big company from barraging a smaller site with malicious users to get it taken down thus removing competition? The smaller site will have to do what Voat is currently doing and restrict registrations and access for a while. Ultimately the fact that big players can shove smaller players off line is weakness of IPv4 address e…

Well with that it means the internet belongs to Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

No point in even trying to build anything because they'll just DoS you with malicious users and you get rejected from all platforms.

Great solution chief.

Re: Seattle-area provider becomes haven for online extremism after El Paso shooting

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I understand the argument by Epik... I'm not sure moderating this content by law is helping anything. Can the FBI not use sites like these to its advantage in some way? I also understand the existence of these sorts of sites leaves a sanctuary for hateful ideas to spread and grow. And that even if we certainly can't stop them, the big popular ones are easier for people to fall into than some dark net site. However, I…

> unless they've been instructed to chop 8Chan by the Government.

Think Deep State. 8chan was used by the QAnon movement for their communications signaling.

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