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" they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths." What insane nonsense. Whatever motivates mass murderers ca

" they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths." What insane nonsense. Whatever motivates mass murderers caused the deaths, not where they posted. They get rewarded with tons of attention from all forms of media, too. Just kill a minimum number of people to get the popularity in the corporate and social media they otherwise wouldn't ever earn. They revel in it. 8chan disappearing doesn't change that. I've always favored all the mass media agreeing to not even mention the killers names, achievements, etc in favor of just belittling or dismissing them. Focus on everyone else in the tragedy instead. Make sure the abusers or killers get nothing out of it. Meanwhile, they'll get plenty across the media with Cloudfare getting some good PR not supporting one of the sites a few wrote on. My prediction: more people will do mass killings since this wasn't a causal factor or even help stop them.

internet_user 7y ago
That's an unstable equilibrium. Good luck thought policing thousands upon thousands of journalists, each of them has an incentive to defect and get more eye balls that competition, and make more money and name for themselves. Never going to happen, until we have full blown censorship and you only read double-plus good happy time stories. Is that what you really want?
- nickpsecurity 7y ago
  "Good luck thought policing thousands upon thousands of journalists" Except you're ignoring the fact that the corporate media already does that. It seems to work well enough, too. It helps that "journalists" are mostly a thing of the past with today's reporters often just doing the minimum to check things when they're not just repeating whatever the current fad is. That's extremely popular, too. Most stories are whatever people in target demographic are either what people want to say yes to or hate on. We're already there.
  - internet_user 7y ago
    Except they seem to be fanning the fire instead of supressing. It's all about eyeballs.

internet_user 7y ago

That's an unstable equilibrium. Good luck thought policing thousands upon thousands of journalists, each of them has an incentive to defect and get more eye balls that competition, and make more money and name for themselves. Never going to happen, until we have full blown censorship and you only read double-plus good happy time stories. Is that what you really want?

nickpsecurity 7y ago
"Good luck thought policing thousands upon thousands of journalists" Except you're ignoring the fact that the corporate media already does that. It seems to work well enough, too. It helps that "journalists" are mostly a thing of the past with today's reporters often just doing the minimum to check things when they're not just repeating whatever the current fad is. That's extremely popular, too. Most stories are whatever people in target demographic are either what people want to say yes to or hate on. We're already there.
- internet_user 7y ago
  Except they seem to be fanning the fire instead of supressing. It's all about eyeballs.