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Re: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Post by 46493168 »

Hendrikto wrote: post #159
xvector wrote: post #88

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Definitely a smear campaign, ironically one that seems to be organized by left-leaning individuals on Wikipedia, Business Insider, etc. Which is bizarre to me because aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism? They are attacking their own side (again.) When will idealists learn that this is not the way?

> aren't these the people that would want the ability to disseminate information in the face of fascism? Everybody wants free speech — but only for opinions they agree with. And they are against censorship — unless the "right people" are censored. Recently, the left has been far more authoritarian, labeling everything they don't like as "far right hate speech", pushing to make dissent illegal, and demanding censorshi…

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

layer8 wrote: post #24
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #22

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Why should wikipedia fold? Can any country put any legitimate pressure against them for just listing a domain.

Linking to illegal services can be illegal, that’s why.

No it's not, at least in US. Google fought and won this case.

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Post by mmooss »

hamdingers wrote: post #267
eli wrote: post #226

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I'm not sure archiving and publishing are different things.

They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless. I occasionally wonder how many enormous collections of culture like that of Marion Stokes[1] have been lost because their curators made no effort to realize the value of their collection. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

Most archives - the ones in libraries, etc. - are not published, except they are available to qualified people who physically travel there. Most are not even fully indexed - nobody knows all of what's there.

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Post by throw-the-towel »

GordonS wrote: post #108
jeroenhd wrote: post #67

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I don't know much about the story or that site, but I can just open it from my end? Whois information also doesn't seem to show any special status.

After publicly shaming NameCheap on Twitter, NameCheap backed down a little. They've still de-platformed genocide.live, but released the DNS name so the owner could transfer it out. IIRC, they are using a "free speech" provider in Estonia now.

Hey, that's the same Namecheap that banned Russian citizens for being Russian in 2022? Nice to hear they're still principled.

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Post by timeon »

tasuki wrote: post #28
sanskritical wrote: post #17

I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fediverse is dependent on domain names, which are getting seized by courts in relation to this -- it is not decentralized at all when it comes down to it) that people can reliably use to have a…

Trying to understand nostr, I looked up its Wikipedia page... > In 2024, in an article reporting on the project's funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist. That... seems extremely irrelevant. If fiatjaf is contributing something useful and significant to the…

> That... seems extremely irrelevant.

I find it pretty relevant who is behind what.

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Post by krick »

chrisjj wrote: post #200
tokai wrote: post #182

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There is. Without a legal framework its just an association that claims not to make a profit. This is all word games though as be clearly don't agree on the definition of a non-profit organization.

> There is. No. In UK, many an unregistered association is a non-profit e.g. sports clubs, volunteer groups, societies.

In UK there is simply no such status as "non-profit", so technically none of what you listed are "non-profit" organizations. These are unincorporated associations, that, by the way, can be making profit (but that would be on shaky grounds, since common law makes it hard not to fuck up, being as vague as it always is). However, there is a "charity" status in UK, and you'd have be a registered organization to obtain it.

Anyway, "non-profit" is (i.e. "only makes sense defined as...") a legal status, it isn't just a way to say "not making money" (after all, we wouldn't call any failing business a non-profit, right?), so it really doesn't make any sense to ask if an illegal underground gang is "non-profit". GP is correct to point that out.

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Post by redeeman »

gpm wrote: post #217
lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #212

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As much as I'd like to claim the values [1] that Wikimedia (the foundation behind wikipedia) supports as a progressive - I think they're quite independent of the progressive/conservative spectrum. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/public-policy/

well I guess if they claim it themselves. I heard Israel doesnt think its comitting genocide, that Russia is rightously doing gods work. Whom did i hear it from? well, themselves of course!

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Post by _yb2s »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #199
jacquesm wrote: post #140

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Piracy is killing music.

You wouldn't download a car. (I mean: You wouldn't steal a car. :-) ).

That was always such a silly argument, even more so with the rise of cheap and reliable 3D printing. I download, print, and use physical objects every week and don’t know or care what IP issues might exist as long as it works for its purpose. I can’t wait until the day comes when you can download and print a working car at home.
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