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There's a very significant difference between website operators moderating content and banning users, versus coercing ISPs to block access to those sites or rev

• dragontamer 6y ago
  The issue being raised is that the 8chan IPs here are owned by nobody. > Both the Nevada-based web hosting company owned by 8chan’s current figurehead and the California firm that provides its sole connection to the Internet are defunct businesses in the eyes of their respective state regulators. > In practical terms, what this means is that the legal contracts which granted these companies temporary control over large swaths of Internet address space are now null and void, and American Internet regulators would be well within their rights to cancel those contracts and reclaim the space.