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I can see this policy being used for censorship in this age of cancel culture. Don't virtue signal hard enough for the latest outrage mob? No cert for you.
by joobus 6y ago
I can see this policy being used for censorship in this age of cancel culture. Don't virtue signal hard enough for the latest outrage mob? No cert for you.
- vageli 6y ago> I can see this policy being used for censorship in this age of cancel culture. Don't virtue signal hard enough for the latest outrage mob? No cert for you. How does that work with a largely automated process like Let's Encrypt?
- cm2187 6y agoA couple of lines of code to enforce domain black lists if the relevant activits apply enough pressure.
- mschuster91 6y agoWhy should anyone do this? It's way easier and more effective to put pressure on hosters, anti-DDOS services and the payment providers to get Nazis booted off the net, see e.g. Stormfront.
- cm2187 6y agoIt is easier to apply pressure when a single provider has a quasi monopoly, which let's encrypt is quickly building up. And I am not suggesting these attacks are mutually exclusive.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoNobody is talking about Nazis. And all of those things are not easier, especially if the site is self-hosted. His point is that it’s one more gatekeeper and point of failure. It doesn’t matter that there are existing means to target websites. Adding another makes freedom even more fragile. It’s very naive to assume that censorship is only a problem for Nazis that the world shouldn’t listen to anyway.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoSeeing how hard this comment is being downvoted somewhat illustrates your point. I don’t see how anything you just said is controversial or offtopic.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoCharitably, it could be seen as inflammatory.