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> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design What does "lawless by design" mean?
by futureastronaut 7y ago
> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design
What does "lawless by design" mean?
- Jerry2 7y ago> What does "lawless by design" mean? It's a euphemism for sites that are not censored and still allow free speech. Matthew Prince used to support freedom of speech but he's abandoned that concept a while back.
- ufo 7y ago4chan banned some of its more disgusting users, and they migrated to 8chan. By design it is a hate-speech echo chamber (aka "free speech zone")
- NikkiA 7y ago8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up, as such they have no real control even over people running pedo boards. That is pretty obviously 'lawless by design'.
- 55555 7y ago> 8chan claims not to be able to ban content because of the way they are set up How is this implemented?
- NikkiA 7y agoThe only people that can ban content are the board owners. Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.
- duskwuff 7y ago> How is this implemented? By throwing up their hands and claiming that it's too hard to implement. 8ch is not running a highly sophisticated software stack. (Quite honestly, their code [1] is pretty terrible -- it's a bunch of frameworkless, hacked-together PHP.) Nothing about their setup is especially elaborate or unusual; at best, "we can't ban content" is an admission of their incompetence. [1]: https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB
- dx034 7y ago8chan was created to provide a platform for content that wouldn't be accepted else where.