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What the hell is this travesty. Now any old nobody can kill a site by larping drama on fucking twitter.

You should all think about the people dying in dictatorships before you give up a free and open Internet over some paedophile using twitter clout to ban a gossip forum


This wasn't "larping drama" - KF members went to pretty severe lengths to not just dox people but to show up at their houses and SWAT them etc.


That is a law enforcement warrant matter--not a cloudflare policing matter.


Looks like CloudFlare decided it was a PR matter, and decided they'd rather not do business with them. Oh well!


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You’re deflecting and at the same time declaring yourself on the side of KiwiFarms. Fair enough, but I don’t think you realise how laws around discrimination work in the USA, you may want to look that up (hint just put “protected class” into Google, that’ll get ya started)


I understand law enforcement which is not on the side of anyone inherently other than ideally justice. You, apparently, are not. I suggest you look up "due process" to get a jump start on some crucial points.


This is correct. All of this is just a law enforcement problem.


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N-no bro! Please fetishize my universal axioms! PLEASE!


It’s a basic matter of human decency. They’re hurting people every day. Cut off their fucking access. There is no business or humane reason Cloudflare _should_ be a morally neutral arbiter; it’s a weird fetish of their CEO.


People hurt people. That's why there are police and a judicial system with checks and balances--not a kangaroo court of internet service providers.


Why do you hate marsupials



Amusing to note you found that thread on undelete :/


I think Mike Cernovich did after he got doxxed and attempted swatted


Still used in pediatrics in the UK. Just the BBC being the BBC.


I thought this, it's widely known in the UK to be used on paediatrics. It's also something the BBC has publicised before... Weird


Also in the US - my daughter was given ketamine when going into surgery.


If you tag a user of a subreddit then you are going to see them pop up all over the place. It's not necessarily indicative of a raid or brigade.

>also, there were 150,000 of them.

Probably explains why you saw tagged users 'invading' subs you use.


conversely puts the fastidiously litigious on trial too. No investment in either side, i think it's all pretty grim.


He posted his number privately in order to facilitate an interview regarding the topic at hand. I'd argue publishing that is far more egregious than taking a selfie outside someones publicly listed place of work.

Either way they are both shitty behaviours, don't really think we need to take a one vs the other.


I think the implied threat to personal safety is more jarring than obnoxious phone calls, but this is so far off topic it belongs elsewhere.

The kinds of harassment we've seen come out of one man's personal crusade against an ex-girlfriend are disgusting, and it's incumbent upon all of us to discourage it.


Perhaps the entrepreneurs amongst us don't like it when someone who the brutality of society would miscast as an ugly little man makes a site that isn't afraid of showing it's ugly side and garners moderate success in, if not financial but at least social acceptance and 'bootstrap' paradigms.

Frederick is an inspirational bloke and all these people casting aspersions on his character whilst lamenting m00t's departure for his cultural boldness, despite disagreeing with the content is pure hypocrisy.

Especially given the non-inclusive hate mob moniker attributed to GG by a genuinely terrible cabal of shoddy journalists and their transparent smears.

I believe common sense will prevail in all of this and there will be no victory fanfares or v-days - quietly the press will mature, the trolls will get bored and good websites and reporters will get justified clicks.


There's nothing naive and presumptuous about it in the least, it's an ethical violation that wouldn't fly by most professional standards and there are vast tracts of legal obligations most people adhere to which define those boundaries, no matter what a small group of hacks suppose.

fortunately the more responsible publications have already updated their policies and looked inwardly to prevent fucking up so publicly and obviously again. (We can hope at the least they won't soapbox to their readership that they are assholes for calling them out!).


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