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There's been a few occurrences of them terminating service for the sites promoting extremist views, eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8cha
by ecnahc515 7y ago
There's been a few occurrences of them terminating service for the sites promoting extremist views, eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
I don't entirely disagree with it but it's censorship nonetheless.
- mschuster91 7y agoIt's not censorship. The Internet is a vast space, someone will host your stuff.
- kube-system 7y agoUniversality is not a defining characteristic of censorship. Most censors have very limited scope.
- Valmar 7y agoDid 8chan promote "extremist" views...? No more or less than posters on Twitter do on a regular basis, yet Twitter hasn't been silenced. The same people that got 8chan shut down also hate 4chan, and want to see it silenced. It has to do with the memes that come out of 4chan, mocking a certain crowd of people for being emotionally fragile and over-reactionary to everything...