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I don't like what these guys are posting about but should we really abandon freedom of speech over it? Wouldn't that be an example of the terrorists winning?
https://libertypod.org/posts/7a778c00f3a201319eb700163efe12c...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think it's a bit weird that instead of using this to promote their values (Decentralization, Freedom, Privacy as mentioned on their landing page [0]) they are essentially pressuring pod admins to take down the content. Yeah that's probably because the ISIS is known for suicide bombings, cutting off heads, video taping it so that the families and friends of the victim can see how gruesome their loved one died, kil…
So it's "Freedom of Speech" (but only if we like it)?
* Freedom of speech is freedom of restriction from government.
* Calls to violence and videos of murder are not covered by the 1st amendment.
(and for the record, "IS" is not a synonym for "ISIS")
They have good uses but I can think of plenty of bad uses and I suspect that the bad uses will outnumber the good uses at any moment in time.
Sometimes it seems like people are more upset about the words of killers than the fact that they go around killing people.
This is like saying "E-Mail cannot stop X mails" or "XMPP cannot stop X chats", which is pretty obvious. The whole point of a decentralized service like Diaspora is that it can't be completely censored. Internet providers could partially block the access to pods that don't censor this kind of content, but then they could setup their own Diaspora pod in a Tor hidden services...